Fast Times at Ridgemont High (w/ Michael, Scott & Tim)

What’s up, dudes? What are you people? On dope?! I’ve got Michael May from After Lunch, Crestwood House, and Hellbent for Letterbox, Scott Leopold from Holly Jolly X'masu, and Tim Williams from 80’s Flick Flashback are with me to talk the Christmas-adjacent movie “Fast Times at Ridgemont High!”

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) follows a group of Southern California teenagers as they stumble through a school year filled with first jobs, romance, sex, friendship, and the everyday humiliations of being young. At the center is Stacy Hamilton, a shy sophomore who begins exploring dating and relationships with encouragement from her more experienced friend Linda Barrett. Meanwhile, Stacy’s older brother Brad watches his seemingly perfect life unravel after losing his job and his girlfriend, while Stacy’s awkward friend Mark “Rat” Ratner tries to work up the nerve to pursue her. Their stories unfold against the backdrop of Ridgemont High and the local mall, capturing teenage life with a mix of raunchy comedy and surprising sincerity.

The film’s most memorable character, however, is perpetually stoned surfer Jeff Spicoli, whose laid-back attitude puts him in constant conflict with stern history teacher Mr. Hand. While Spicoli dreams of surfing and Van Halen, the other students gradually discover that adulthood is arriving faster than they expected—and it comes with consequences. By the end, relationships have shifted, friendships have been tested, and several characters have grown up at least a little. Directed by Amy Heckerling and written by Cameron Crowe, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” became a defining teen comedy of the 1980s, balancing outrageous moments and endlessly quotable humor with a remarkably grounded look at the uncertainty, mistakes, and small victories of adolescence.

Forgotten wallet? Check. Santa who got peed on? Poor kid. Most paused movie scene ever? You know you did! So grab your surfboard, put on your pirate costume, and scalp some tickets to this episode!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:49

It was 1982. John McEnroe was a world number one. Bruce Springsteen released a Nebraska album. And high schoolers love their lives at Christmas time. I'm your host, Jerry D with another episode of Totally Rad Christmas, the podcast that talks all things Christmas in the eighties. Toys, movies, specials, music, and fads. If it was gnarly during Christmas in the eighties, we got it covered. Now, joining me are three Totally Rad Christmas All-Stars and Raddy winners. My first guest, you'll know from After Lunch, Crestwood House, and Hell Bent for Letterboxd podcast. It's Michael May. Michael, how's it going?

SPEAKER_09 1:23

Doing well, doing well. You want another Coke? You sure you don't want anything else? What else can we order?

SPEAKER_06 1:30

It's good to see you, man. It's been uh it's been a while. Yeah. I think the last thing we talked was V. And I know I know we got Cagny and Lacey coming up probably uh in a month or so. So yeah, it's but it's good to see you. Always a pleasure. Thanks.

SPEAKER_08 1:45

Same.

SPEAKER_06 1:45

My next guest you've heard on Holly Jolly Xmasu, it's Scott Leopold. Scott, what's happening?

SPEAKER_03 1:51

Hey, hey Jerry. Just enjoying the weather.

SPEAKER_06 1:56

You like the vibe? Is it make you feel like the mall, right? Well, it's good to have you back on the show as well. So I think you were just, didn't we just talk? Chris Stamy. I think yeah, yeah. So it's good to see you as well. But finally, you'll know him as a host of 80s flick flashback. It's Tim Williams. Tim, what's up, man?

SPEAKER_05 2:18

I just want you to know one thing. No shirt, no shoes, no dice. Read it, know it, live it. Yeah. I'm good, man. It's good to be back on the show.

SPEAKER_06 2:31

It's good to have you. Yeah, it's been it's been one of those years, I'm telling you. I I cannot seem to catch up this year. So I understand, yeah. It's good to have you on. I don't think you've been on since uh it's been like months, I think. Yeah, it's been a while, but it's all good.

SPEAKER_05 2:47

Happy to be here whenever I can whenever you can fit me in.

SPEAKER_06 2:50

Well, I'm glad to have you here. This we're talking like a really fun, like classic movie, right? Like this is one of those like quintessential 80s teen comedy movies. But before we do that, just like Carol Kane did to Bill Murray and Scrooged, I want you to hit me with the toaster. So I'm gonna ask you a few questions, and I want you to hit me with the first answer you think of, okay? You don't have to think too hard about it. So let's say that you're making a Christmas story, you know, the movie from 1983, a Christmas story. You're remaking it with a cast of fast times at Ridgemont High. Of course, we know Mr. Hand would be the old man. Who would you cast as Ralphie?

SPEAKER_03 3:27

Judge Reinhold.

SPEAKER_06 3:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 3:32

Rat was the first one that comes to my mind. I think he works too, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:36

Yeah, that's that. Yeah, I was going with Rat as well. That was that was my initial thought.

SPEAKER_06 3:41

So all right, I like that. Okay, what would you title a Hallmark movie, a Hallmark Christmas movie specifically, starring Stacey and Rat?

SPEAKER_05 3:53

All I want for Christmas is my wallet.

SPEAKER_09 4:00

That's a good one. Maul I want for Christmas is amazing. I was looking for the good pump, and I just couldn't, I wasn't getting it in time.

SPEAKER_07 4:10

That's it. I like that one. I like that one.

SPEAKER_03 4:12

Yeah, and I can't top that. So or deck the malls, right?

SPEAKER_06 4:17

Deck the mall. That's even better. Even better. Yeah. All right. And finally, which 80s movie character is most likely to date Linda?

SPEAKER_09 4:31

John Bender.

SPEAKER_06 4:34

Okay. That is good.

SPEAKER_04 4:36

I can see that. Yeah, that's that's pretty spot on right there.

SPEAKER_06 4:40

Yeah. For some reason, every time I was thinking while I while I was writing this question, the only thing I could think of was uh Brandt from The Goonies. But I don't think that's right. That's just like the only thing I could think of, and then I couldn't get it out of my head.

SPEAKER_09 4:56

I was trying to think of like a sleaze ball college student. Yeah, nothing was coming to mind. There's got to be one, but I just thought I'm sure there is, right?

SPEAKER_06 5:05

Well, that's just a way for our listeners to get to know y'all a little bit better. So thank you for that. Now, tonight we're here to talk fast times at Ridgemont High. It's this is definitely Christmas adjacent. Uh, but what do you guys remember about this movie? Like, what's your history or experience with it? Why don't we start with you, Michael?

SPEAKER_09 5:42

It was it came out uh before I was of age to be able to see it. Um, I wasn't allowed to go see R-rated movies as a kid. My parents didn't encourage that kind of behavior. So um it wasn't until later when I was able to catch it on VHS um that I finally saw all of my friends were going to see it. They all talked about it, they all quoted it in school. I felt super left out. Um so finally when I was able to see it, it's like, okay, yeah, and I was pleased that it was as good as funny as they all made it out to be.

SPEAKER_05 6:12

Yep. Agreed. Tim? Yeah, much uh kind of the same boat there. I I didn't see it as a kid. Uh definitely wasn't old enough to see it uh when it came out in the theaters, and it wasn't one, I mean, I saw R-rated movies as a kid, but usually with my parents in the room. Right. And this is when I'm sure that they were like, they've probably never they probably didn't even see it, but had probably heard from other parents, like, yeah, this is not the one for you to watch um with your kids. So I think I it had to have been like the early to mid-90s, like maybe after I graduated from high school, but I saw the theatrical because I think I it came on TV. I saw some TV version at some point and kind of you know, which was cool today. I didn't realize because I've I just bought the Criteria Criterion collection or whatever of Fast Times a couple of months ago, and I pulled it out today, and it actually has the T the TV version as a version you can watch on there, which I didn't watch today. I'm I'm gonna go back and watch it because it said it has some additional and deleted scenes in it, but I'm like, that that's probably the one that I remember seeing the first time. But but yeah, but I didn't I didn't see it again and I mean I didn't watch it for like the theatrical, the uncut version until probably like early high school, and then I hadn't seen it again until probably like two or three years ago when I started my podcast. And it's it's one that I know people talked about, but it wasn't one that I I'm really tied to nostalgia for because I discovered it so much later than when it came out. So, but it's but I I really enjoyed it, and of course, becoming a Cameron Coro fan as I got older and seeing his later movies, like going back and realizing that it was based on the book that he wrote and his screenplay, kind of his foray into mute uh movie making. So it's definitely definitely at a high list of uh favorite movies for those reasons.

SPEAKER_06 8:03

Yeah. What about you, Scott?

SPEAKER_03 8:06

This is one of the reasons I was glad we had Showtime on a VCR when I was a kid.

SPEAKER_06 8:11

I'm sure, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah. I think I remember reading this definitely one of the most paused scenes. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:21

Yeah, because happy's, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:24

Yeah, and well, and we it we we watched it fairly often, just not it it wasn't one of the ones we watched all the time. So, I mean, you know, we we I saw it plenty, but you know, we didn't play quite as often as like risky business. So still one of the ones we really enjoyed.

SPEAKER_06 8:42

Yeah, I can't imagine why. Um, and I'm I'm right there with you guys. I was definitely too young to watch it when it came out, and I I wouldn't have been allowed to even if I was a little older. Saw it for the first time, probably like you, Tim. I remember seeing like you know, I remember seeing like like on TV, TBS or TNT or USA, one of those, right? I remember seeing it not the full thing. I didn't understand really what was going on, and then later on in you know, in the 90s when I was in high school, then it was like, Oh, I get it now. And just yeah, it was a fantastic movie. And I remember buying it, you know, on VHS. There was a half-price books, like literally across the street from my apartment when I was in college, and I remember just walking over and it was there, and I was like, Yeah, that's a good one. And I I think I got purple rain at the same time, and it was you know, just like these classics that like people were sold because they were buying them on DVD at that time, and I was like, Well, I I still love VHS, let me grab these. So I I do remember this was one that I picked up, you know. I got I bought Clue also, but like like this, you're right. It's definitely one of the the the most like popular teen movies, right? And and I think it's still there's in a lot of ways it doesn't hold up, but it still has themes that like hold up even to this day, things that are relevant, you know, and also things that our technology has definitely moved beyond, but right overall, like it's just it's funny, it's grimy, it's like it's it's witty. I mean, it's just it's really well written, and I think a lot of that, like you said, has to do with uh Cameron Crow and things like that. So released August 13th, 1982, written by Cameron Crowe, like you mentioned, based on his novel. He actually went undercover for a year at a local high school in order to like get the vibe and everything. And this was directed by Amy Heckerlin, who of course I remember as the director of Clue later on, or excuse me, Clueless, Clueless later on. So sorry, I got hung up on Clue, you know. But like Clueless is like another just fun high school movie, you know. So we're like fast times is is like teens of the 80s, you know, clueless is like teens of the 90s, and so I just feel like Amy Heckerling somehow really knows teens. Like she's got them down because everything they do and say was like everything that I saw growing up. I was like, this is I had friends, it was like rat, and I had friends, it was like what's a Demone, you know. I mean, it's just like like these are like just classic archetypes almost that you know just keep reoccurring in like everyday life. It's so insane.

SPEAKER_05 11:25

Yeah, and you have to remember this is before the John Hughes era, where you know, people want to say that John Hughes, I mean, of course, I'm I'm not taking anything away from John Hughes, but you know, he he made different types of teen movies, but really you wouldn't have John Hughes without Fast Times or Regimont High. I mean, because everything before that was much more of the porkies and like the you know the sex comedies and stuff like that. But Crow wanted it to be more real, and so that's what the whole point of the book was being like real conversations, real things that teenagers were doing instead of these you know caricatures of what a teenager does. And then John Hughes just kind of found a different way to tell the kind of tell the same stories, but did it in a different, in a more PG way, I guess we'd say, than uh, or PG 13 at least, than than than this one was. But I know we'll get into it, but like I why rewatching it today, the the opening credits. I'm like, if you want a time capsule of like the early 80s, for sure. I mean, that it those opening credits, like that, you could just stop it after that. Like once it says directed by Amy Hecklerling, just shut off the TV, and like that is the 80s in a nutshell. The mall, you know, hanging out at the mall, the the fashion, the arcades, like uh you know, it was like this is my childhood, and like you know, two and a half minutes, and of course the bangles song, oh you got the beat as well. So it it that's like the go-goes? The go-song is the go-go's, yeah, not the bangles, you're right. So, but yeah, so that just I much like like you said, like much like Clueless kind of uh encapsulates the 90s, uh, this one does a good job, at least the early 80s encapsulated pretty well.

SPEAKER_06 13:09

Yeah, for sure. I I gotta say, watching this again made me miss malls. Like there's still malls around, but like they don't have the same feel to them. Yeah, like I remember like in junior high, even like my friends and I just go in hanging around the mall, you know, just walking around, doing going to the stores, just who needs money? Yeah, yeah, you know, just hanging out, like yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:35

Well, and I I've told my daughters about that, you know. A Saturday afternoon, Sunday or Saturday afternoon at the mall, you're shoulder to shoulder with people. Yeah, and I'm like, Yeah, and I'm like, you don't even see that at Christmas now. So they they just they it's a shame they miss out on that because it's you know, it's something that uh it's some of the best times I had, you know, back in high school and college were just doing nothing at the mall all day.

SPEAKER_06 14:02

Oh, yeah. I remember some of my friends and I like like the girls, we would go and they would just try on different clothes. We just go to like a store and they're like, let's go try on clothes. We're like, okay. And then it was like then they'd say, Hey, try this on. So okay. So I you know, we'd we'd go check like we were just I mean, just had nothing to do, you know. And then we go to the record store and just like look well, I guess CDs at that point, but like just look at CDs and cassettes forever. And I mean, it was like it was cool. I I miss that because we have a mall that's like 10 minutes away, and it still has a record store because records are now kind of coming back in fashion, but like there's no it has a Barnes and Noble, so that's cool. But like I remember Walden Books was huge, but Dalton's yeah, or yeah, or Dalton's, right, right. But there's no KB, like the toy stores are just not great.

SPEAKER_03 14:53

Uh no movie theater.

SPEAKER_04 14:55

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:58

Yeah, I was telling a friend just the other day. I was just telling a friend of mine how when Groundhog Day and what was the other one? Mad Dog and Glory came out. Went to the mall and we sat there, we watched Groundhog Day, and then walked next door and watched Mad Dog and Glory. And I was like, it was great. We're there for like you know, five, six hours, and you just can't do that now.

SPEAKER_06 15:19

No, no, we got out of our parents' hair, but also like they wanted us to get out of their hair, right? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:25

I mean, yeah, you know, nowadays. Yeah, my mom never complained about dropping me up, me and friends off at the mall. Exactly. Or the arcade for five or six hours, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 15:33

We had an arcade called Tilt that was like in the mall, and I remember just going to Tilt and spending, you know, like stupid amounts of money at the arcade just playing video games. And I wish I had some of that money back, but you know, I mean, it was good times, I gotta say.

SPEAKER_03 15:50

One friend of mine, it his mom wanted us out of her hair for a few hours, so she she she got us in to see Rambo, even though we were you know, we were we were nowhere near old enough.

SPEAKER_06 16:00

Oh, for sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:02

She was like, you know, if if I can shop by myself for a couple hours, they can go see Rambo.

SPEAKER_05 16:07

Yep. Same. Me and me and my me and my friend went and saw Rambo. My mom and his mom were in the other theater watching Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. And Rambo was over first, so we had to we had to go into their theater, and I watched like the last 20 minutes of Mad Max going like, what is this? What is happening? I have no idea.

SPEAKER_06 16:27

Master Blaster, man. Yeah, yeah. I think you won in that in that scenario. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. I gotta say, and I love Mad Max, don't get me wrong. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's fun to watch now, but then it's like I think you won, yeah. So the movie chronicles the the lives of certain high schoolers and like their dating habits, and it's basically just a coming of age kind of story, right? So we get Linda and Stacy.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

Christmas sucks. I hate it. Uh you've got to get used to working holidays. People are always screaming and yelling, I'm to quit this job. I'm gonna get so fat working here, no one's ever gonna want to take me out. I guess Ron hasn't called yet, huh? Not since November.

SPEAKER_06 17:12

And they're like good friends. Linda's kind of mentoring Stacy a little bit because they work at the same place. And I guess Linda's a senior and Stacy's a freshman. And basically, it's I mean, it really is about their sexual history and awakening and things like that. And so Stacy's older brother is Brad, played by Judge Reinhold. Of course, we know him from Beverly Hills Cop.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

Wow. You know, it says here that by the time the average American is 50, he's got five pounds of undigested red meat in his bowels.

SPEAKER_06 17:46

Which and vice versa, which you remember Tim? Yeah, we talked about that.

SPEAKER_03 17:51

Ruthless people, yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 17:54

And uh later on the Santa Claus. Yeah. So you know, so Judge Reinhold's like got his own, you know, he's like the clean cut, I mean, he's in Gremlins, you know, he's the oh yeah, kind of the the pardon my you know, the douchey guy in Gremlins. You know, but he's the I don't know if he's really the protagonist, but he's one of this group of of protagonists. So, you know, because it really is like an ensemble cast here, right? Linda, of course, Phoebe Cates, Phoebe Cates, who's also in Gremlins, is also in Gremlins, right?

SPEAKER_02 18:30

Right, you know the worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh god, it was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was nine years old. Me and mom were were decorating the tree.

SPEAKER_06 18:50

Drop dead Fred later on. I mean, gorgeous, gorgeous girl. Very pop, you know, popular scene with moving and stereo in the background by the cars. Everybody knows that scene. Like, if you're a boy, you know that scene. And but also, like, she's she's the the senior, she's like the the worldly one. She's worked at the mall for a few years now. She has a college boyfriend, and which by the way, I gotta say, while I was doing research for this, I discovered that there actually was a series that was based on the show. Yeah, I've never seen that, I don't really know anything about it, but apparently in the series, at some point, Brad and Stacey excuse me, Brad and Linda do get together, so I thought that was kind of fun.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

Hi, Brad! Hi, Linda. Say, I know you're gonna be busy, but do you think you could save a dance for me at the party?

SPEAKER_03 19:40

I know I watched it. Did you watch it? I I know I did. I I can't tell you anything about it. Right.

SPEAKER_06 19:48

Right. It's not the original cast, right?

SPEAKER_05 19:51

No, no, like but the uh the guy that played Chainsaw in summer school played the role of Spicoli, so that's how I know about the show because I've we covered summer school and fast times on my podcast, so that we that was the thing that joined those two things together.

SPEAKER_06 20:10

That's hard to mesh in my brain.

SPEAKER_05 20:14

That's the 80s, man.

SPEAKER_06 20:15

That's the 80s. I mean, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

Well, and isn't that how he got the role in summer school? Is that they saw him in the Fast Times TV series? Yeah, yep, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 20:25

I believe it, I do. But so Brad's kind of popular, right? He's dating like this this another gorgeous girl who and it's the girl from Nightmare on Elm Street, isn't it? Yeah, Amanda Wiss. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's also in uh Better Off Dead. Right, right. Well, we also get Mark, we also get Mark Ratner in this, Brian Backer, who I knew from Police Academy 4. That's like the only other thing I really know him from. Yeah, yeah. You know, he's he's one of the one of the kids that they like prank with the yama, yamma, yama, yama, yama. And he has like a big crush on on Jennifer Jason Lee, who's you know, Stacy, who's Brad's little sister. She's the one that in this movie loses her virginity, has sex with his best friend, gets pregnant, has an abortion, and then eventually gets with Mark. I mean, it's like she has like this whole long journey. Spoiler alert for this 40-year-old, 40-plus-year-old movie.

SPEAKER_09 21:24

She's really the protagonist, which is pretty remarkable for an early 80s, like true high school sex comedy.

SPEAKER_06 21:30

Right, yeah, you're right. I mean, that's you know, most of the time it was like the guys who were just so obsessed with sex that they, you know, were trying to get it from wherever they could. You know, you look at Porkies and Revenge of the Nerds and like all this, but right. So you're right. In a way, it in a way it's kind of progressive, right? It's like like a very daring kind of movie, which is pretty cool. We get also you mentioned him spicoli, Sean Penn, of course uh famously married Madonna in the 80s. Went on to do a lot of other great movies. What is it? Mystic Mystic River? Is that what it is? Yeah, Mystic River.

SPEAKER_09 22:06

Yep. And uh at Close Range, you guys ever see at close range? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:10

At close range, yep. See, set someone on uh Facebook at Manami recently because they'd asked, you know, what's Sean Penn's greatest role? I said spicole.

SPEAKER_09 22:20

What did they think? What was their argument? Right, right. That's kind of undeniable, right?

SPEAKER_03 22:25

They they thought I was being immature and joking. I'm like, no, like oh, I've seen it. Yeah, yeah, there really is.

SPEAKER_06 22:32

That's like like his greatest, like his most memorable role out of everything he's done, honestly. He's like the stoner surfer guy who gets into it with his teacher, Mr. Hand, who's Ray Walston, you know, of course, a classic actor there. But you know, Mr. Hand is like very by the book. This is my time, you're gonna do everything. And Spacoli is like ordering pizza in class. I do, I gotta say though, because you know, I'm building up, I'm doing a quick re run through of this so we can build up to like more of my discussion about certain topics and things. But I gotta say, when Mr. Hand goes to Spacoli's house and is in his room, and he's and you just see like all the the posters and pinups of like all the magazines.

SPEAKER_05 23:19

I mean, because he he looks like right whatever, yeah. Right when he's about to leave, he like looks at the wall and he's just like like he like he's like he's desperately.

SPEAKER_06 23:29

Like, why am I why do I even lost faith in humanity?

SPEAKER_03 23:32

Yeah, well, and and one thing I liked about it is that yeah, it it really kind of reinvigorated Ray Ray Walson's career because for a few years after this, you saw him everything. Everything, right?

SPEAKER_06 23:45

I remember him like so much. Yeah, he was in rad. He was in rad. That's right. That's right. He's the the owner that invests in rad racing. Oh man, that's great. I love rad. But yeah, yeah, you're right. It's like we have all these little these these separate little vignette kind of things, but it all ties together in the end. And finally, we have Damone, who's uh Rat's friend. This dude, I gotta say, he's not he's not a good guy. It's uh it's Robert Romanis, and I mean he knew that rat had a crush on Stacy, but you know, Stacy came on to him, so he's like, Well, what am I gonna do? Right, like right, you don't do that to your boy, man. Come on. But he's like the local ticket scalper, which is which is another thing, like that you can't do that anymore, you know. I mean, not on that level, anyway, right?

SPEAKER_05 24:43

No, yeah, they don't even sell paper tickets anymore, so now how can you scalp anything, like so oh man, that whole industry just went down the drain. Yeah, can't sag my ticket stubs when I go to concerts anymore. Like, what's what has happened to our world?

SPEAKER_06 25:00

Oh, for sure. Yeah, so I want to do I because this is a Christmas podcast, I do want to talk the Christmas parts. You know, so Stacy and Linda work at this pizza joint, right? Perry's pizza. Stacy lies about her age to this stereo salesman, and they end up going on a date, and then she loses her virginity to him in like a baseball dugout. Yeah, how romantic? Yeah, right, like the the best place to do that, right? Right, right. As she's reading the graffiti on the walls on the ceiling, so yeah, but all this kind of happens around Christmas time. Like, Rat meets Stacy, he's like super enamored with her, like just kind of smitten. So he asks her out, and this is where like it's the mall, it's like Christmassy background. There's like a mall Santa eating at Stacy's restaurant, and this dude is the worst.

SPEAKER_09 25:59

He's got a rough job though. He's got kids peeing on him. Yeah, no, that's true.

SPEAKER_06 26:03

Yeah, that's true. It could be justified, right? Right. He's had a rough day. Yeah, yeah, I'll take it, yeah. But there's uh also when they actually go out on their date, you know, they go to that was it like a German restaurant? I think it was a German restaurant, yeah, yeah. And but there's like a big Christmas tree in the background, and there's garland and wreaths and things like that. And so it's there is Christmas in this movie, but it's definitely a Christmas adjacent movie. But I know, Michael, you were telling us about when you were watching this movie and your wife walked in right on that scene.

SPEAKER_09 26:57

Yeah, yeah. Was that before we started recording? I uh it was, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so yeah, she walked through and and she's like, What are you watching? It's just it's a random movie for me to be watching. You know, I'm I it's not I don't know, it's not the weirdest thing in the world. She's caught me watching, but um she's but she said, Yeah, why are you watching this? I said, What's for a Christmas podcast?

SPEAKER_08 27:18

And fortunately it was on that scene, so I was able to point out the screen and said, Look at all the Christmas decorations.

SPEAKER_09 27:23

So she shrugged her shoulders, okay.

SPEAKER_06 27:27

You say so, right, right. But I mean, the whole thing basically takes place over the calendar year, right? It's like when it starts, or not calendar, excuse me, the school year. School year, yeah. It's like it starts in September, makes its way through Christmas, and then I mean it ends with Spicoli kind of pat you know passing graduation and like all the seniors moving on. So, okay, so I do have a couple of questions that I really want to get to. I gotta say, how do you think high school has changed since like the days of fast times? Like, how is it also the same, though? You know, so like how would you see the differences and and how like what elements do you also think have stayed the same?

SPEAKER_09 28:07

A great question. I my son is he's out of high school a few years now, so that far removed from it. But just my observation of his high school experience versus my high school experience is a lot less clicks. And and it's kind of interesting, like clicks don't really come up too much in Fast Times, like they really don't are more prevalent in other high school movies, but but it was a big thing. You know, you had like you had your stoners, you had your the jocks, the jocks, the smart kids, you know, all of that. And that was all blended a lot more, I think, in his high school experience.

SPEAKER_03 28:41

Yeah, I mean they they still have them, but it's not the delineation is nowhere near what it was 40 years ago. I mean, it the we the the stoners in my school, you know, they were their own group. You did not really mess with them if if they weren't in your classes. And it now, I mean, uh just seeing what my daughters go through, it's it's not as cut and dry as it was back when we were in high school.

SPEAKER_06 29:11

So well, my daughter is a freshman. Tomorrow's her her first day of school. So uh yeah, I I'm just so curious because same, like we had like the group that we knew exactly who they were. They stayed over on the the tables that were outside, you know. So we knew that okay, stay away from that group unless you're like wanting to feel pretty good, you know.

SPEAKER_09 29:36

But there's a very clear uh entry requirement for that group, right?

SPEAKER_06 29:41

Exactly, exactly. But you're right, I think because like nerd and geek culture has kind of populated the mainstream, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:51

I think it's not, you know, it's like there's not as much of a stigma to like be into superheroes, say you know, that I think it has kind of made more of a homogeneous kind of mixture of things, but uh yeah, well in my girl scroll, but it's the it seems like the there's a lot more delineation just based on like the like the clubs and the teams they're on. So you've got you know the the drama kids, they're all it they they all hang together, but that you've got so much overlap because you've got athletes who are into drama and band kids who are into you know some might play a sport or whatever. So I mean you've got it I don't know, it I I think it's easier for at least at my girls' school, just because if there's something you're interested in, you've got a built-in group of friends. Whereas that's cool, you know, the clicks back then you didn't necessarily if you didn't fit in just right with the click, you were not part of it.

SPEAKER_06 30:56

Right. So it's true, because even in band, I mean when I was I remember, you know, even in band, there were like the the popular kids in band, and then you know, like the rest of us, you know. You know, so it really was different, but I think at the same time, I think there's always gonna be the same kind of pressures and you know, things like that. I mean, there's always gonna be those that pushing for substance abuse, and and you know, I mean, there's still gonna be the pressures of raging hormones, and so in a way, I I think this movie, and I think that's why it still kind of holds up today, because it still deals with like your changing hormones and your your like physical appearance and and just everything that like you still have to deal with at that age. I mean, she's just a freshman, right? She's only 15.

SPEAKER_09 31:48

So it's such a unique time because you really are trying to figure out who you are, and you're trying to you're kind of trying out different things and putting on different identities and you know, taking it off if it doesn't work for you. And and that's one thing I really like about Stacy's kind of journey this that school year is you know, she kind of grows up, she kind of goes into the school year under the influence of Linda, um, who has you know very specific attitudes about sex, and so Stacy kind of adopts that and tries that on and then learns that it doesn't really work for her.

SPEAKER_05 32:18

Right. Yeah, but but can so maybe this is just my perspective, but I also feel like Linda was giving her a lot of false information too. Like I felt like she was trying to make herself seem like she was more experienced than she really was, which I think is you know, I think once again it's still true today, where you're gonna have those people that are gonna like you know tell you they've done all this stuff, and of course, her boyfriend's in college and not close by, so there's no one to back up her claims, you know.

SPEAKER_09 32:44

So and there's some inconsistencies in her stories, yeah, yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_05 32:48

Exactly. So so I that was something I picked up on and thought about, and even somewhat with with Ramon, too. Like, and I was watching the little documentary or behind the scenes thing on the Blu-ray where the actor, I'm sorry, I can't think have forgetting his name all of a sudden, but the playoffs are right, Romanus. He he was like he basically played the character like he was a transplant from New Jersey, like he he said most people, most kids that like transfer from somewhere else, they always like have this air of like being a little more cool or a little more, you know, have have a little bit more attitude, even though he was very much laid back. Except except Daniel LaRusso. Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So uh, but yeah, so that so like that was kind of his, but he did kind of, you know, he was telling he was telling Rat some things that like he probably wouldn't do, you know. So so that I I I appreciated that you had both sides where Linda was giving some false information to Stacy and R Ramon was giving false information to Ratt and which m which causes even more confusion with the between the two with the two of them trying to like get together and not really being able to until the very end. So yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 34:00

But also it's kind of a punk move by uh Damon, right? For sure, yeah. Come on, man. Like it's your friend, he he's into her. I mean, you don't do that unless you gotta ask permission first, right?

SPEAKER_05 34:13

Yeah, I don't. I mean, look, I you know, that wasn't that was not me in high school, but I'm also I'm also thinking like 17-year-old boys. Yeah, the opportunity's there.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

I don't know, I don't know too many of them that's gonna be like yeah, and I I can't think of a time where a guy a guy I knew, you know, asked before pulling something like that.

SPEAKER_07 34:31

I gotta five minutes. I can I call a rat real fast or make sure you're gonna be quick phone call over when it happened.

SPEAKER_05 34:39

No, no, no, you're right. I mean, it's true, it is true, but today would have been like, oh man, I meant to text you before. I'm sorry. I text you with a freak out they had sin, and then I didn't get a response, I thought it was okay.

SPEAKER_06 35:04

How does the film, in your opinion, like how does the film portray like the insecurities of being an adolescent? Like, like, how does it do it and how does it do it authentically? Well, I think in go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 35:15

I'm sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 35:16

I was gonna rant rant and stacy, I think embody it better than anybody in this. I mean, Judge Reinhold's character, he he has his moments for sure, but right but but as far as like uh you know just uh characterizing that whole uh you know unsure feeling that you have at that age, I think the two of them are are the two best characters in the movie from that regard.

SPEAKER_06 35:44

Yeah, mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 35:46

Yeah, I agree. Oh yeah, I was just gonna say, like, for me, I think no, there you you you you know no none of the parents, none of the parents are in the movie. The only adult in the movie are the teachers, you know. We had Mr. Hannah is kind of the primary, and then you got the science teacher that's like grossing everybody out, but but there's no there's no like real parental influence. And so, like, even looking back, even though my parents were around and were there to give me advice, like most of my memories were with my friends, like we weren't asking our parents for information, like we were figuring it out as we were as we were living it. So I think that was, and once again, that kind of that still kind of holds true in even the John John Hughes era of where it was like they're kids that are trying to figure out what it's like to make adult decisions, and so are they gonna make their best decisions? Of course not, because that's what part of that's all part about growing up and making making stupid decisions and learning about the the consequences of them. So and so that that was that was a part that I I I it stood out to me today watching it again.

SPEAKER_06 36:46

Okay, well, that's actually a good point. You brought up John Hughes. How does this compare to like John Hughes movies? Like, you know, could like structurally and and like uh with the characters, like you know, take I don't know, Pretty in Pink or Sixteen Candles or The Breakfast Club, like all these classic John Hughes teen movies, like comparing them to Fast Times, like what what's the difference, you know? Like to because to me, I feel like John Hughes movies they're yes, they get to like the bottom of of characters and stuff like that. But I feel like fast times almost hits it deeper, you know, like like you really hit the characters a little bit harder because of the circumstances that they're put in, so we can kind of see a little bit how they would react more, and then we get to know them a little bit better. What do you guys think?

SPEAKER_09 37:37

I think there's I love John Hughes of the Yeah, me too, for sure. Oh, yeah. There's two different kinds of John Hughes high school movie. There's there's the serious kind, your Breakfast Club, you're pretty in pink, you're some kind of wonderful. And then over here you've got Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Ferris Bieler, right?

SPEAKER_06 37:54

And yeah, that's very funny.

SPEAKER_09 37:56

But I think that Fast Times really kind of like takes the the best of both of those kind of categories and puts them into one movie. So like all of the the stacy rat stuff is very you know, it's serious. It's like serious issues that they're dealing with, and like you guys were talking about, like the the insecurities that they're feeling, and they're trying to navigate all of that. And then you've got Spicoli doing his thing, and that's out of a different movie. I'm not saying it doesn't fit, it totally fits. Like, but it's it's it's it's just goofy fun. And even like a lot of the the Judge Reinhold stuff is very heightened, you know, the the wearing the pirate outfit in the car and trying to like hit on a girl in the car next to him, and yeah, it's just that's a different kind of movie, but it all like it all works together, it all melds really nicely in Fast Times, but it does kind of like bridge those two kinds of John He's movies in a way that John He's movies don't really like he's kind of got like this kind of movie, and then he's got this kind of movie.

SPEAKER_06 38:56

Did y'all ever have to wear like a uniform like that for any job that you've had? I never did, so not that silly.

SPEAKER_09 39:02

No, we had I worked at a grocery store, we had a dress code, but it was like you had to wear a tie, and you know, it was it was fairly classy, so it wasn't doing great.

SPEAKER_06 39:11

No pirate costume, uh no.

SPEAKER_03 39:14

See, and I I think Fast Times is overall, I think it's a technically better movie than most of John Hughes stuff, but because of when the John Hughes movies came out, they're they're definitely, you know, if I'm gonna go back and watch uh an 80s teen movie, the first thing I'm thinking of is gonna be a John Hughes movie. So I mean there there's stuff from earlier in the decade that I just love. I mean, this Valley Girl, Last American Virgin, yeah. But it th those aren't the ones they didn't hit at the right age for me. So yeah.

unknown 39:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 39:54

Yeah. Breakfast Club is unequal, like that's that's a masterpiece. Right. Um yeah, I nothing else compares to it for me, but this is kind of in the tier right below it, I think.

SPEAKER_05 40:05

Yeah. Yeah, I was I was gonna say that was it. I would say Breakfast Club is probably the closest of the John Hughes movies to this because even though it has its funny moments, it is it is tackling more serious things than the things he did. I mean, Pretty and Pink, yes, but it was still very safe. You know, uh, you know, this one, but but uh once again, I think goes back to like you know, John Hughes was clearly an adult who had a good voice for teenagers. He had his muse Molly Ringwald, but you had Cameron Crow that was like taking real, like they said, all these characters are drawn from like real people that he met, like I'm sure composites of many different people, but probably he was taking he was taking real situations that he saw going on in high school, whereas Hughes probably did pull from some of his own high school experience, but it wasn't as current, I don't think. And so, and I think he just he would Hughes had a way of like adding humor and heart, where this one like Fast Times is it's a great movie, it's not one that I would consider like a feel-good movie, like it's not one that I'd be like, Oh, I feel like watching a really good, you know, a really happy like comfort movie that's not gonna fit on my comfort movie. Dark stuff in this movie, yeah. Yeah, but if I want like a great 80s movie to sit down and really watch and like reminisce about the 80s, I would definitely put this on because it has all of that in it as well. So yeah, I think it's it like I said at the beginning, I I think you wouldn't have John, you wouldn't have Breakfast Club if Fast Times did not succeed. And the studio didn't think fast time was gonna be hit. They the studio hated it and so much that they didn't even they weren't even gonna they they canceled it being in theaters on the east coast because they didn't want to pay to put in the theaters because they thought it was gonna bomb. And then when it became a hit in California, of course, on the West Coast, then it it spread like wildfire. So because it was such a monster hit, they were like, Oh, well, you know, this Breakfast Club, sure, we'll give it a shot. And so, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 42:03

It is funny, right? Because it's early 80s, so there's certain things that seem almost 70s in a whereas like Breakfast Club, all those that we that we've been talking about really feel very 80s, yeah. I think part of that is because it was later on in the decade, but part of it is also like as the 80s progressed, we started getting more of like an a feel for nostalgia of like the 50s. Oh, for sure. Yeah, some of that kind of bled into the I mean, you see it in you know, Peggy's who got married, Back to the Future, you know, all these, and so you kind of get a little bit of that in in I feel some of the John Hughes films as well. So, yes, we're talking about dark stuff. Stacey, you know, she she gets pregnant and she realizes like I mean, she can't keep the baby, so she, you know, elects to terminate it. Like, how does it compassionately portray her predicament? Like, like you know, cause cause she has to face this on her own, right? I mean, uh Damone can't afford help like he can't afford to help pay for it, right? So she has to come up with it, uh, she has to like go by herself, you know, like how does that really make the the role and this situation just more uh dramatic?

SPEAKER_09 43:26

You gotta give a lot of credit to, if not all of it, to Jennifer Jason Lee, that performance, this the whole movie, but especially that part right there, and the other actors around her too. Like, I mean, I really I don't know Robert Romanes from a lot of other things, but Mike Damone is like a full character to me, man. He's a he's a he's a butthole, but he's like he's a real person to me.

SPEAKER_08 43:48

Right, right.

SPEAKER_09 43:49

And just the weaselly way that he kind of treats that whole situation just feels very real, which makes her predicament feel even more real. And Her, you know, just the way that she handles it. And I just I love it. And I love, you know, when her brother finds out about it and how he reacts to it. You know, talk about compassion. Like that's just a great, great scene. Because they really haven't seen eye to eye on a lot of things. Like he's a senior, she's a freshman, you know, she's a kid's sister. He's got his own thing going on. He doesn't have a lot of time with her. They're always kind of bickering about whose turn it is to clean the pole and stuff. But in that moment, like he's got her back and it was really sweet.

SPEAKER_06 44:29

Yeah, it was. I agree.

SPEAKER_03 44:31

Well, and I like just from the compassion standpoint, I like how Fast Times handles it. But from a I think from a realism standpoint, movies that you know tread the same ground, if you've never seen Last American Virgin, I think I mean it has a similar storyline. Right. And that one always struck me as a lot more real because she ends up going back to the guy and the one who you know was basically rat in that movie. Yeah, you know, he he he's the one who gets dumped. And just situations that I witnessed when I was that age, that that resonated with me so much more because I saw that over and over and over again.

SPEAKER_06 45:20

So yeah, and then everybody hated Diane Frank, right? Oh yeah, no.

SPEAKER_09 45:27

Yeah, there's definitely some wish fulfillment going on in Fast Times, right? Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, because we all we're all relating to rat, you know, and so yeah, well, I mean, I think I think we're all, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 45:40

Everyone on the call is probably rat.

SPEAKER_05 45:43

Oh, I was definitely rat. Um, but yeah, I was I I was gonna say Scott totally took what I was gonna say. I I'm I'm I was late to the party on Last American Virgin, but I I'm I feel the same way. I think yeah, it's it, you know, the it's it's almost like the uh it's almost like the cousin of Fast Times. Like there, there's a lot of similarities, the soundtracks and you know, the you know, the needle drops and the the some of the similar storylines. It's it's not as well done as fast times, but that but that part of the story of the the compassion and the emotion, I think last American Version kind of hits that it hits harder in that movie. This one it hits, but it's just it the the the gut punch is a little stronger in last American Version.

SPEAKER_06 46:36

So yeah, I gotcha. But speaking of, you know, you talked about soundtracks. Man, this soundtrack is pretty killer. Oh yeah, oh yeah, you know, and of course we get uh Jackson Brown's, you know, uh somebody's baby all over the place.

SPEAKER_08 46:50

I mean they play it several times throughout the light.

SPEAKER_05 47:16

Other guys from the corner stands great.

SPEAKER_03 47:21

The the day after I watched this, um uh a post showed up on Facebook asking, you know, watch that and watch Valley Girl and which soundtrack is better. And I'm like I'm like, that's tough.

unknown 47:35

Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 47:36

I was like, I've got to go with Last American Virgin again.

SPEAKER_06 47:40

You're like Sophie's choice here, you know. Yeah, yeah. Favorite moments. I'm gonna I'm gonna steal something from Tim's show. What's your like like favorite moments, standout scenes for you?

SPEAKER_05 47:52

Well, I'll go first. You know, it's not anything about the story, but it's one of my favorite parts is when Spacoli and Forrest Whitaker's kid brother uh take his car and crash, is like, my dad's a TV repairman, man. He's it's all about the tools. I can fix it, I can fix it. He's like, I'm not gonna be able to fix it. And then they made it where it looked like the opposing team destroyed the car, and then then goes right into the football game where he's just tearing everybody up on the like that sequence, like once again, very much a vignette that doesn't have anything to do with any other part of the movie, but like that little section has always been like one of my favorite parts of the movie. So I I loved, I love that, and I love like watching it now, like going back and seeing Spokoldi's face when when Forrest Wooder comes out and sees the car, and you can tell he's like, I'm really scared that he's gonna figure out that it's not real, and I'm gonna be impressed. But you know, like you know, he got sober real quick, you know.

SPEAKER_04 48:48

You had to go back to the van right after that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I gotta go, I gotta, yeah, yeah, exactly. Great.

SPEAKER_09 48:56

One little snippet, uh it's just a little gag that I really, really like. And I don't know if like if young people were watching this today, if they'd even understand what was going on. But Mr. Han passes out all these papers into the class, and all the kids are sniffing them because they're like mimeographed. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Mimeographed, not a thing anymore.

SPEAKER_05 49:15

Oh no, definitely not. I can't believe Bed Bath and Beyond doesn't have a candle with that smell. I buy it for sure. It's going to my office.

SPEAKER_03 49:30

Those are my two favorite parts of the game.

SPEAKER_08 49:32

Oh, yeah, the robbery is great too, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 49:34

Yeah, I gotta say, like the endings, right, that they give what happens in the future to these people are just great. They're so fantastical that they're just they're amazing. I mean, I gotta say, you know, so Stacy and Ratt have like passionate love affair, but you know, they they still haven't gone all the way yet. And right, right. Right. Spicoli saves Brooke Brooks Shield, right? Shields, yeah. Brookshield from from drowning. So so she gives him reward money, which he blows, hiring Van Halen to play at a party. I mean, it's like it's like so perfect, but also so ridiculous.

SPEAKER_05 50:16

Yeah, Mr. Hand still believes all every kid is on dope.

SPEAKER_06 50:25

That's a good, it's so good. I love it. And then Damone, right? He gets caught like scalping tickets and then he works at a gas station. Or I mean it's just He got what he deserved. The downfall of Pic Damone. Okay, okay. So I gotta say, if you could be in this like movie, you know, who would you be? Which character would you be?

SPEAKER_09 50:52

Now or when I was in high school?

SPEAKER_06 50:54

Right. Either one.

SPEAKER_04 50:55

I'll take I'll take either, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 50:58

In high school, I I I cross clicks a lot, especially in my senior year. I'm trying to think who I would have hung out with. Probably Judge Reinhold.

SPEAKER_06 51:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 51:13

Yeah, I probably would have been one of his buddies.

SPEAKER_06 51:16

Nice.

SPEAKER_03 51:17

I definitely would have been rat. Not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_06 51:22

Yeah. I mean, I I'd like to be, you know, Rat or or Brad, but I think I'd probably be Mr. Hand now. Yeah, now I would be Mr. Hand. It's just it's uh I'm at that point now. It's like, oh I don't like dealing with kids. I want to be Mr.

SPEAKER_09 51:42

Varga, but I can't I can't field trip. I wouldn't make I wouldn't make a dream.

SPEAKER_05 51:49

Yeah, I love the scene where he's introducing the kids to his wife, and they're all just like there's hope for like the nerd's like there's hope for us, right?

SPEAKER_09 51:57

Right. Oh, I know who I am in the movie. It's the the blonde kid with the glasses, the um oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Goes to work at all American burger. That was totally neat.

SPEAKER_05 52:08

Yes, that's great. Who was also in Police Academy sequels, yeah. So yeah, yeah, I was definitely I was definitely rat in high school. If I could go back, I'd probably want to be Brad uh as well.

SPEAKER_06 52:22

So yeah, yeah, same. Well, what would you guys say is your hap, hap, happiest like memory or moment with the film?

SPEAKER_09 52:31

Hey, wait a minute. There's no birthday party for me here.

SPEAKER_03 52:37

See, for me, it it's gotta be the first time we saw it because it my my parents had you know seasoned subscription to the theater. So every Friday or Saturday night, you know, they're off with their friends and we're at home with our friends and we're watching whatever's on showtime that night. Yeah, this was definitely revelation.

SPEAKER_05 53:03

Yeah, I mean, like I said, I I don't remember my first time watch because I know, like I said, I know I watched it on television, but I remember watching it for the first time, like in high school, and and like even though you know a good 10, maybe yeah, probably 10 or let 10, maybe 12 years removed from when it was released, it still had an impact on me. I still saw myself and the character. So, you know, that's that's what makes a movie timeless. So yeah, it's probably that probably that time watching it as a as an actual teenager, because yeah, you know, I I if I would have watched it when it came out even as a kid, I wouldn't have understood. It would a lot of it went way over my head.

SPEAKER_09 53:41

So yeah, not having those childhood memories, and even like I don't think I've even had memories of it as a teenager. So I wasn't, you know, probably until my late teens or 20s when I actually saw it. So like even though like now I kind of connect the most to like what I like most about it is some of like the heavy themes and like just the way it handles a lot of that stuff. But my favorite parts, the parts that make me the happiest, are Spicolian hand, like and just their kind of relationship throughout the course of the year. I love that end where he's like and you know, he he leaves it kind of open to question whether he's gonna pass and goes, Yeah, you'll probably squeak by, squeak by, yeah, but only because I don't want to see you next year. Right, right. Right, you know. But there's still like this kind of begrudging, not a respect necessarily, but like, okay, we're just gonna end the year on a on a good note just because I want to.

SPEAKER_06 54:32

Yeah, I mean that's the thing, right? He's he thinks, like he he knows that yeah, he's a stoner, uh, he doesn't really try, but also he knows that he could be like a really smart guy if he tried.

SPEAKER_09 54:44

So he's getting right answers in that study session, right? Like he's he's grasping some of it, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 54:51

Right. So it's like he just almost just doesn't want to see him, you know, just waste his talents, or you know, right. So so you're right. That that is kind of a cool moment. I gotta say, the most memorable part for me was probably Phoebe Cates. So, you know, it is what it is. Someone had to say it. It's a great car song. We're all thinking it, I'll say it.

SPEAKER_09 55:14

Moving the stereo is an awesome song.

SPEAKER_02 55:29

Hi, Brad. You know how cute I always thought you were.

SPEAKER_06 55:34

It is a great song, yes.

SPEAKER_05 55:35

Yeah. I will say that I probably saw that scene before I saw the movie. So because some friend showed it to me that had that had recorded it off of Showtime, and and you know, you gotta watch this part. And so poor Brad.

SPEAKER_06 55:54

Gotta lock those doors, Brad. Well, now we come to my favorite part of a show, which is a little segment I call Gag Me with the Spoon, where we do our best impression of our least favorite part of the of the movie here. As a guest, I'll let you go first. Just kind of set up the scene a little bit for us so we know where we are. And whoever wants to go first is fine.

SPEAKER_09 56:11

I'll stick with spacoli in hand, and it's spacoli orders pizza and hand says, Mr. Spacoli has been kind enough to bring us a snack. Be my guest, help yourselves, get a good one. I am so like just righteously indignant about hand giving away specoli's pizza. Like, no.

SPEAKER_03 56:33

I had that happen in a class. It wasn't pizza, it was gum. And the teacher said, you know, you've got to have enough for everyone. And this kid goes, okay. And he pulls out this huge bag and he puts it on his desk. And she didn't let us have the gum. She sent him to the principal's office.

SPEAKER_04 56:52

She got called out. He called her buff. Yep.

SPEAKER_06 56:57

I was a band director in Houston, and I did have a student. Now I was teaching a class because I had to teach other classes too. So one was like music theory, music history, and I'll never forget one kid did order pizza, but I ended up turning it, like telling them to go downstairs, and the orchestra teachers who like we shared the same space at the time, ended up just taking it and eating. They had it in their office. So the kid didn't get it. I, you know, it is what it is. I'm sorry. So so uh yeah, I guess I am Mr. Hand. Uh what about you, Tim?

SPEAKER_05 57:39

I don't, you know, this is one of those few moves where I don't know there's a part that I didn't like or like a line that felt like it was, you know, out of place. So this was this was hard for me. But I will say, like, one of the most cliched or you know, I you know, our trope is, but it's still funny was when Mike's talking to uh uh rat about you know him having a crush when he first finds he has a crush on on Stacy, and he's like, you know, this is gonna be just like last summer. You fell over that girl at the photo mat and bought like $40 worth of film and give her a target, you don't even own a camera. Like, you know, it was funny, but I'm like, you can pick any 80s comedy, you know, that you know, that that that's gonna be a joke that's that's gonna land in there somewhere. But yeah, so that that that's it for me. But the only other one is it's once again, it's just the when is spicoli, which I well go ahead, Scott. I don't uh I'll hopefully I won't steal yours.

SPEAKER_03 58:32

So see, I the only I mean like Tim, it's hard to pick something that I didn't like. The the only thing that and I still love the scene, but you know, back in grade school and at the start of high school, everybody had a spicoli impression. So when you hear the awesome, totally awesome line now, it just it brings back every single one of those kids who you know thought they were as cool as spacoli.

SPEAKER_09 59:00

So yeah, it was the height of comedy to imitate. Oh, yeah, it was, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_06 59:06

So my yeah, I I went with the Damone line as well. So only because this is like one of my all-time favorite bands, and I hated I hated that the they did him dirty. But when they asked him if he's got blue oyster colts, like, no, I don't have any blue oyster colt. I ate 34 pears last time around. Who were you?

SPEAKER_08 59:23

I was like, come on, man.

SPEAKER_06 59:29

Like, they just released burning for you. Like, where come on, everybody's a blue oyster colt now. But you know, G.I. Joe taught us that knowing is half the battle. What do you think the other half is?

SPEAKER_03 59:40

Pause button.

SPEAKER_06 59:44

Locking the bathroom door.

SPEAKER_08 59:46

That's totally my taste.

SPEAKER_03 59:51

I had to say what somebody else took it. We're all on the same wavelength. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 59:58

Guys, this has been a lot of fun talking about this Christmas adjacent movie. Tell me about your shows or anything you want to plug. Why don't we start with you, Scott?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:07

I am still on hiatus. I'm trying to come up with something new. So hopefully, hopefully by the end of the year.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:13

Right on. Tim. Ace Flick Flashback. We're we're still rolling along. Cool thing that I'm doing right now is actually going back and redoing some of the episodes that did my first season. We started back in 2020. I was, I you know, didn't know what I was doing, trying to figure things out. And so we covered some big movies back then. So we've redone uh Raiders of Lost Ark, we redid Goonies, and we just recently redid Stand By Me, which are you know three of my like all-time favorite 80s movies. So we got a few more of those coming up. So got some fun ones coming up. Commando should be coming out uh later this week.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:46

Oh, that's good.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:47

And then also have got Cannonball Run, which I was finally got got some guys to go what do Cannonball Running should be coming out uh the end of this month. So so yeah, so check us out 80s foot flashback right on, Michael.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:00

Yeah, my main show is after lunch, which is it's kind of a general purpose. We we talk a lot about movies, we play a lot of stupid games. We also uh my friend Pax and Holly and I do a Western podcast called Hellbent for Letterboxd. Yep, and uh as we head into September here, Pax and Sean Robert and I do a show called Crestwood House, which is all about pre-1980s horror. So that runs in September and October.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:26

Cool. Yep, all great stuff, all those shows. So make sure you check them out. I mean, you can't go wrong with any of them, honestly. Guys, thanks again. This was fun. Thank you, Jerry. Yeah, thanks, Jerry. Had a blast. And I'll end it with Aloha, Mr. Hand. So check us out on our social media pages, which you can find at linktree.com slash totally radchmas. And if you're feeling like Mark having a passionate love affair with Stacey, leave us a review on iTunes. It helps us reach more people and spread some rad holiday cheer. Now don't forget to check out our merch shop on tpublic.com and our super dope website, totally radchmas.com. What are you people? On dope? Later, dudes.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:05

Hi.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:08

What can I do for you?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:10

Yeah, I had a couple of questions. I was curious, what do you do with the jackets that people leave here? You keep them? You keep them. No, that's cool. Take two moments and look too much. My other question is can I have your phone number so I can ask him something? Stacy.