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
May 2, 2024
May 2, 2024
1hr 26 min
There have been a few good comedy sequels, but how many? You can probably count them on one hand off the top of your head. Maybe. Making a good sequel to a popular film is hard enough, but it seems like the special magic imbued upon popular comedies is even harder to capture for a second go-round, from the abomination that was Caddyshack II to the horror of Zoolander 2, we examine why that follow-up round of laughs is so elusive.
Apr 25, 2024
Apr 25, 2024
27 min
Dave is joined by his old friend and extreme film nerd, Vinnie, to talk about the recently announced Blair Witch Project remake coming from Lionsgate and Blumhouse. They get into why Hollywood really has to get its head out of its ass when it comes to choosing IPs to remake or reboot and why the chances that this won't suck are really, really low.
Apr 18, 2024
Apr 18, 2024
49 min
In our first episode ever, Dave did his best to convince Tom that Rob Zombie's version of Halloween (2007) was worth his time — because he'd never seen it, and he should have. Tom took the advice and watched this divisive remake of a horror classic. Find out what he thought and if he'll ever trust Dave for a horror movie pick ever again.
Apr 11, 2024
Apr 11, 2024
27 min
Dave doesn't speak Dune very well. He's finally seen the entirety of Dune: Part One (2021) in one sitting, sober, in anticipation of seeing Dune: Part Two (2024), and the recently announced and forthcoming third chapter, Dune: Messiah. He also rewatched David Lynch's Dune from 1984. And he has some question.
Luckily, Tom is a huge nerd and has read all EIGHT Dune books. He provides a crash course in the basics of the Duniverse — okay, we're done with the Dune puns. For now......
Apr 4, 2024
Apr 4, 2024
1hr 29 min
There are a lot of bad movies out there, and most of them have equally shitty endings. It's expected. But every once in a while, you get a good movie, a really solid film that just gets mucked up by a bad ending. On this episode of Yipee-Ki-Yay Mr. Falcon, we go through a few of those and get to ranting and raving about some of the worst endings in movie history tacked on to equally shit films. We couldn't help it.
Mar 28, 2024
Mar 28, 2024
8 min
The guys get to talking about Walk Hard and the legend of Dewey Cox before Dave tells a story about how he kinda sorta accidentally stole a car one time.
Mar 21, 2024
Mar 21, 2024
1hr 16 min
The horror classic, The Thing (1982), is one of the crowning achievements of director John Carpenter's career, but the ending has had people arguing for decades. In a movie where anyone can be the monster, you can have a cut and dried finale. So how 'bout it? Was Childs infected after the arctic research station is destroyed? Could MacReady be infected? Both?
Mar 14, 2024
Mar 14, 2024
11 min
You find some weird shit when you randomly watch buried titles on streaming services, but this was one of the best we've ever come across. After finding the made-for-TV cautionary tale classic (in my mind, now, at least) Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983), I just had to watch it.
It's like an after-school special for adults, a mediocre budget for TV at the time, and a cast with some surprising names. The lead, a down-on-his-luck working stiff who descends into the dark world of casual cocaine addiction, is played by Western veteran Dennis Weaver with an opinionated teenage son played by a young and bright-eyed James Spader. Jeffrey Tambor even shows up and no, he never had hair, not even in 1983.
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.