Yipee-Ki-Yay Mr Falcon
A movie podcast for people who grew up in an analog world of VHS tapes and rabbit ears and evolved into a digital landscape. We’re just regular dudes who watch a whole lot of movies, talk about movies, and use them as touchstones throughout our lives.
Episodes
Episodes
Jan 15, 2026
Jan 15, 2026
1hr 14 min
Before there was an MCU and 30 movies with billions of dollars wrapped into it, there was an era where hardly anyone cared about seeing comic book characters on screen, except the fans that kept it on prime time TV for five seasons spanning the 1970s and the 1980s: prime Gen X territory. Elder Millennials knew it through syndicated reruns and, of course, three TV movies made in the late 1980s and early 1990s: The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988), the Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989), and The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990). Then we get into the various later portrayals of David.....Bruce....David Bruce Banner and his green, pissed-off alter ego.
Jan 8, 2026
Jan 8, 2026
1hr 7 min
Dave and Vinnie expound on their very different opinions on the final season of Stranger Things and talk about the legacy the landmark Netflix series will leave behind.
Jan 1, 2026
Jan 1, 2026
1hr 5 min
Happy New Year Mr. Falconers!
Today we dig into what makes a good biopic as Vinnie prepares for the release of Michael (2026) and Dave reacts to seeing Springstee: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025) for the first time. Then we get into what actually separates the shitty biopics from the good ones.
Dec 25, 2025
Dec 25, 2025
1hr 18 min
You about sick of the season? Sick of the music? Sick of the shopping and the cooking and the whining and the family and the going here and getting there? There's a place where all this bullshit exists in a tidy square on a screen...that you can turn the fuck off. Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
Dec 18, 2025
Dec 18, 2025
1hr 31 min
Why do we do it? There are some film franchises that have strayed so far from their roots that fans of the originals have no real business keeping up with the latest installments, but sometimes, we old heads just can't help ourselves. We're junkies who will begrudgingly watch every new Terminator, every new Predator, and every new Alien movie....and we are the worse and more exhausted for it.
Dec 11, 2025
Dec 11, 2025
1hr 17 min
We get into some serious shit on this one, kids. Talking about Quentin Tarantino burning fuckers down for no reason, digging into what's wrong with movies today and what the pending WB buyout might mean for movie lovers. And has the theater experience finally outlived its time for most people?
Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025
1hr 43 sec
Sometimes a director's filmography is a rich tapestry of cinematic discovery that spans decades and can take almost as long to truly appreciate. And then there are other directors that make you want to claw your way back into the ether where your soul existed before you were born. We deep dive into a couple of each.
Nov 27, 2025
Nov 27, 2025
42 min
This should actually be called "Best Movies to Watch on Thanksgiving," because while many of these movies are tangentially related to the American holiday of food, precious few are actually dedicated to turkey day. So if you're like us and you'd rather watch a few good flicks instead of football while you're digesting away, dig this.
The Death Rattle Generation and the Meaning of Mr. Falcon
Older millennials have seen the slow death and crumbling of so many institutions once thought to be forever as a brave new world marches over us. We're also the first generation that was able to fall in love with movies by watching them over and over in our own homes, our own rooms — the home video generation. We formed a special attachment with them like nobody before or since. We memorized the cover art on cardboard video tape sleeves and then later DVD and Blu Ray cases and watched movies over and over the way Baby Boomers listened to singles on 45s.
As we get older and everything, including people’s tastes and Hollywood itself, moves on as all things must with the inevitable decay of time, it’s easy to feel lost. Folks born in the early 1980s barely got a chance to get used to all the things that defined their generation before it all changed more drastically than anyone could have expected.
The YKY Mr. Falcon podcast aims to focus on movies through that lens. We don’t do celebrity gossip or participate in cancelling people. We talk about the movies, our experiences with them, and all the trivia that goes along with it that’s cluttering up our skulls until the dementia sets in one day. It’s a cool place to hang out that will hopefully inspire you to dig out some old classics that you haven’t watched since dropping boxes with that blue and yellow movie stub on them in the return slot was part of your regular routine. Let’s go!
--Dave
Inside The Name
If you’re old enough to remember when TV networks would air feature films that had been edited to fit a 4:3 screen, and also for content. Extreme violence, nudity, and curse words were excised. In some cases, when objectionable phrases couldn’t simply be deleted, they were dubbed over with silence or, in some cases, alternate dialog. Every once in a while, an actor would record alternate lines for the TV version of a movie, but most of the time, it was a sound-alike who did the dub.
And every once in a while, that sound-alike sounded nothing like the actor. The most glaring example is the television version of Die Hard 2 (1990). At the end, when John McClane drops what became his famous tagline from the original Die Hard, viewers were treated to a voice that couldn’t sound less like Bruce Willis replacing “Yipee-ki-yay, motherfucker” with “Yipee-ki-yay, Mister Falcon.”
It's a quirk of a system that doesn’t exist anymore and that was unique growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, when your folks would tape movies off TV instead of buying them at Suncoast video in the mall. And it’s also some really funny shit. Now you know.