Sep 18, 2025
Best Boxing Movies That Aren't Rocky Movies
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
Sep 11, 2025
Sep 11, 2025
2hr 6 min
It's kind of astounding how many amazing, lasting classic movies came out in 1994. Dozens, far too many to mention one by one - but we try our damn best! Take a nostalgic tour through one of the best years in movie history.
Sep 4, 2025
Sep 4, 2025
2hr 21 min
Some movies are just as memorable for the songs backing the imagery and the score weaving it all together. There have been some epic movie soundtracks from the past few decades, and they show the power a really good mixtape can have. What's your favorite movie soundtrack of all time? Let us know in the comments!
Plus...learn everything you absolutely must know...about WOLF JAZZ.
Aug 28, 2025
Aug 28, 2025
56 min
There's a growing movement of movie fans who are committing to buying physical media so they are no longer at the mercy of streamers. But we were doing it before it was cool — because it was all we had. Now, recollecting movies on 4K is becoming an awesome way of watching movies you love with new eyes, and in a lot of ways, for the first time again.
Aug 21, 2025
Aug 21, 2025
1hr 42 min
There are a few years that are landmarks in cinema for the sheer volume of awesomeness that was released in theaters between January and December. One of those years...is 1987.
Aug 14, 2025
Aug 14, 2025
1hr 11 min
Yes we have another one of those mysterious occurrences from the 1990s where two movies with extremely similar subject matter tackled in very different ways were released right on top of each other: Dante's Peak and Volcano, both from 1997. Which movie about molten magma spurting from the earth's core did it better?
Aug 7, 2025
Aug 7, 2025
1hr 12 sec
The Terminator film series is a wild mess of continuity, but this super interesting fan theory only focuses on the original The Terminator (1984) and also helps explain away some of the weirdness of the legendary Terminator 2. And most importantly, the theory actually holds up and doesn't require a whole bunch of extra explanation or other BS, just what's in the movie we have. So...is it possible that the Sarah Connor we know — played by Linda Hamilton — wasn't actually THE Sarah Connor who gave birth to the John Connor we see in the opening scenes of the movie. It sounds nuts, but it kind of makes sense....
Jul 31, 2025
Jul 31, 2025
1hr 18 min
We were having a weird day and bounced around from a tribute to the late Michael Madsen to potential new James Bonds, William S. Burroughs, and weird old biker movies, and a new one, too. Sometimes, we're just, like, not super focused or whatever.
"What are you rebelling against, Johnny?"
"Whaddaya got?"
Jul 24, 2025
Jul 24, 2025
1hr 40 min
People have been making movies about vampires literally since the advent of the medium, and they've been reinvented and the stories retold with different twists and turns and takes, and sometimes, even some originality, through every era of film. Sinners is the latest and extremely welcome entry in the bloodsucker canon, but the 1980s and 1990s were a fertile feeding ground for the undead. Let's take a tour through the best vampire movies ever made.
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.