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
Feb 22, 2024
Feb 22, 2024
1hr 29 min
There have been eight films that can be called “Rocky Movies” since the original Rocky was released in 1976, and a ninth if you’re stretching it, including a spin-off series that now has a life of its own.
Everyone has their favorites — if you grew up in the 1980s and ‘90s, you probably loved Rocky III and Rocky IV as a kid and that has translated over to adulthood. But how does this series of films about relationships, coming back from insurmountable odds, and, yeah, boxing, look to someone of the same age who didn’t see the majority of the series until he was an adult compared to someone who has been watching the first four films since he could crawl?
We get into that while ranking Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa, Creed, and Creed II by which movies we feel are objectively the best overall films, not which are our favorites. It generates some weird results. NOTE: We didn’t get into Creed III or include it in our rankings, because Rocky Balboa ain’t in it, so it ain’t a Rocky Movie. It is what it is.
We also talk about the new version of the fourth film, Rocky v. Drago, that was re-edited by Stallone himself from original footage during COVID, and yeah, we shit on Rocky V for the requisite duration and intensity.
Feb 8, 2024
Feb 8, 2024
1hr 47 min
Welcome to the first episode of Yipee-Ki-Yay Mr. Falcon, a movie podcast for working-class Xennials who love movies! We're introducing our podcast and one of our favorite formats with this first installment. Welcome to "The Laundry List," in which Dave convinces Tom, a busy dad who works full-time, to use his one movie slot a week to watch something specific he's never seen before. This time, Dave is selling Tom — a big fan of the original Halloween (1978) on watching Rob Zombie's remake of the classic horror entry, Halloween (2007). See if he can convince you, too!
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.