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
Nov 13, 2025
Nov 13, 2025
57 min
American Beauty gets a bad rap, it's not nearly as dated as some people say it is, and along with Fight Club and Office Space, all of which came out in 1999, they create an interesting picture of the American psyche at the time and shows us a bit how we got from there to here almost three decades later.
Nov 6, 2025
Nov 6, 2025
2hr 39 min
You truly won't believe how many excellent, quirky, and even legendary movies were released in 1996. We tried to do a speed run through them, but there were so many this ended up becoming a deep dive. Let's get into it!
Oct 30, 2025
Oct 30, 2025
56 min
Vinnie is back, and for some ungodly reason, he has an unusual passion for a lesser know horror nugget from the 1990s - The Rage: Carrie 2. A movie that had the balls to call itself a sequel to the Brian De Palma classic while also calling itself "The Rage." It's a weird little time capsule, a strange plend of every cliche from Not Another Teen Movie mixed with bizarrely grotesque and violent moments sticking out of the rhythm of the movie like a lame tattoo.
Oct 23, 2025
Oct 23, 2025
1hr 17 min
There's something special about the trilogy, whether they're an accidental collection of sequels or a purposeful trilogy like The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, or the OG Star Wars films. In most cases, if not all, the trilogy is muddied by further sequels that ruin the original triumverate, but we can remember or dis-remember any installments we want, right? Here they are, the best film trilogies of all time.
Oct 16, 2025
Oct 16, 2025
51 min
Say what you will about the guy, he has made some awesome movies and some really fun television, if you don't mind some melodrama and a lot of gunfights. Taylor Sheridan made a go of it as an actor (Remember the sheriff on Sons of Anarchy who got killed off? That was him.), but when that stalled, he stepped into the role of "creator." Sicario - a masterpiece. Hell or High Water - will be called a classic someday. Wind River - fucking epic. And yes...we've watched Yellowstone...and 1883....and 1923, and we'll watch the spinoffs, too. It's deep dive time into the world of Taylor Sheridan.
Oct 9, 2025
Oct 9, 2025
1hr 3 min
They've been on the gory fringe of horror movies for a long time, and then came the great wave in the early 2000s — zombies. They're everyone's favorite apocalyptic flesh eaters, and they come in a ton of varieties, from the voodoo variety to the brain eaters of the 70s and 80s, to the rage-infected runners and speedy zombies that just want to kill — these are the best zombie movies of all time.
Oct 2, 2025
Oct 2, 2025
59 min
We sometimes think of the superhero-movie era as beginning with the Marvel Phase 1 films, specificaly Iron Man (2008). But the truth is, folks who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s had more superhero movies at their disposal than you might think. Here are the best, from the first big screen (sort of) Punisher, to the OG Superman and Batman, to the Incredible Hulk from TV, they're all here.
Sep 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025
49 min
There is seriously hope for the next generation. Find out what some brand spanking new horror fans thought of their first viewings of The Monster Squad (1987), The Wolf Man (1941), and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). This is the perfect wayt o kick off the Halloween season.
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.