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June 15, 2025

Carl Reiner - Summer Rental

Carl Reiner - Summer Rental
Carl Reiner - Summer Rental
A Film By...
Carl Reiner - Summer Rental

This week, we're kicking off the summer season with Carl Reiner's underrated vacation comedy, Summer Rental! Jeff and Amber reminisce about family vacations, Jimmy Buffet, and John Candy!

Special shout-outs to our creative friends:

Jason Colvin at Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast

Van Allen Plexico at White Rocket Books

Chad Cochran from the band Diesomnia on Spotify

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0:01 A very difficult question for you, and I'll put you in this spot before. We kind of did this with Bill Paxton last month. If I asked you what your all time favorite John Candy performance is, what do you got? I thought about it and. Agonized over it, and then came back to my original response, which is usually the best answer. Anyway. I love him and Splash.

0:43 That's surprising. I did not think you're gonna go with a deep cut like that. A lot of people don't even think of him in Splash. So he has a great he's a goofball and just to diff us through like ninety nine percent of the movie. And then he has a great scene. Where he's kind of scolding Tom Hanks, And I think about it all the time. The fact that he's the younger, cooler brother of the two of them in that movie, and he's the ladies man. That's fantastic. That's fantastic. You know, it's not an easy question to answer. I I thought about that when you when when I think of his filmography, like John Candy as a whole, I'm thinking lovable family man, hilarious, but still has to all together be cool, like you want to hang out with him. You believe in him. I put all those together. I put all those things together, and it's Buck Russell from Uncle Buck. Yes, not easy, it's not easy. It's like I said, there's a lot of a lot of great performances. I'll tell you a go to Candy movie for me growing up was the one where John Candy is about to face the most devastating experience known to man, the family vacation. So Amber, with that, let's talk about a film by Carl Reiner, his nineteen eighty five underrated disaster vacation comedy Summer Rental. Hello, everybody,

2:44 I'm Jeff Johnson, I'm Amber Lewis, and this is a film by podcast Amber. Kind of a big week. It's officially summer. What the end of the week, it is like Thursday or Friday. I think, yeah, let the games begin. Yeah, I know, I know we're all excited to you know, hit the road for family vacations. But before we get into Carl Reiner's Summer Rental, which I'm excited to talk about this one, it's celebrating its fortieth anniversary. It's a nineteen eighty five film, you know, I know, before we get into it, though, I want to. I want to.

3:27 I want to recognize several very creative people. I thank you if you will. So we recently did this. Our four hundredth episode was this Alternate Universe Batman episode, which. Oh my gosh, it was so amazing. Thank you, thank you. A very overwhelming response to this episode. I think a lot of people tuned in just because they saw the word Batman in the title, and then a lot more people tuned in when they realized what we were doing. You know, we kind of we went to the alternate universe to discuss the Batman movie, made by Richard Donner in nineteen eight nine, starring Mel Gibson and Robin Williams. I've been I've been calling it a very much a labor of love. It took it took a lot of work to put something like that together, and you don't do something like that on your own so quickly. I just want to. I want to call out a couple of people here. Jason Colvin from the Shirley You Can't Be Serious podcast. I have to give Jason the credit of having a conversation when I was in gridlock traffic on my way home one day and we were talking about Batman. We were talking about the alternate universe and oh the what ifs, and we started talking about how cool it'd be if Richard Donner had, you know, made Batman because Amber, as you recall, as you'll recall, like we like last year, you and I did Richard Donner's Lady Hawk, Yes, and we talked about how he almost did, in fact, direct Batman, and it

5:01 got us, It got me in Colvin talking and the more this alternate universe video store phrasing kept popping up on our show, on the show You Can't Be Serious podcast, I think it's popped up a couple times on the Documented seventy seven podcasts. It's like a shared term that we've all been we've all been using, and that's when that's kind of you know. I credit Jason with with inspiring me to to do that episode. Right. Uh, he's not alone though. We talked about in the alternate universe. We talked about where we got a lot of our our information from the amazing book uh, Dark Night, Silver Screen, written by the very incredible author Van Allen Plexico.

5:51 Yeah, I crowded girl tears when I realized that is not a Roebuck. Yeah, you weren't happy when you found out that is a real book. But Van happens to be a real life author, a friend of the show, and the incredible talent behind the White Rocket podcast network. So while Van has not written the the Definitive Batman book, he has written many amazing books. We even we kind of mentioned Miami heist in the Batman episode at a movie, So yeah, definitely check out check out Van Allen's his page. I'm gonnaut out. I'm I'm gonna link everyone's information so you can find these guys in our show notes. But moving on, we talked about the amazing theme the amazing score by Chad Cochrane in our Alternate Batman movie. Chad happens to be a musician from the metal band Dysomnia. You can check them out on Spotify. He's a very gifted composer and he actually created an original theme for our alternate Batman movie. When I challenged him with this, he could not be happier. He was like, Oh, give me, give me a little bit of time. I can do this, and I gotta be honest. The more I built this episode and worked it and edited, the more times I heard his theme. The more I started my brain started to accept that this is the Batman theme. Now it's not Danny Elfman's. So yeah, Chad, I can't I can't

7:22 thank him enough for taking the time to compose original music, record it and uh, and I allow us to use it for that for that episode. It was fantastic. UH. And then finally Brad Kozo, my best friend, the co creator of the film by podcast, the original co host, who came out of retirement much much like Rick moranis is doing for the Baseball sequel. I Brad, you know, we had We had a great time the first couple of first three seasons, and I always hoped that he would, you know, I've always wanted him to come back and do some something fun. And I thought the four hundredth episode, if I could get him there, I pitched this to him and he he was loving it. So I owe him a great deal of thanks. It's not easy to do something like that episode where you're basically playing a part, but you're playing yourself. And you know, I gotta tell you, if you if you want to, uh, if you want anyone to play Brad Kozo, you should. You should definitely call Brad Koso.

8:24 He's absolutely. I don't know if anyone could play Brad Kozo better than back Brade cost and he did. He did an amazing job on that on the Batman episode. So my my loving thanks go to him as well. Now, having all having said all that, Amber, Uh, let's get back to Summer rental. Uh. Carl Reiner. This is the first summer film that he that he gave us, the second one being Summer School, which Brad and I covered a couple of seasons ago. So you can check out our Summer School episode. We've got a detailed we give a pretty detailed conversation about Ryan or so, uh, definitely check that out out. Other than that, I got a couple of facts for you, Amber, I got a fun quote. You know when you think it's when you think of Carl Reiner. I kind of get a smile when when I read it because I was I was reading it in his voice, you know. Yes, So three things real quick.

9:13 He did serve in the United States Army in nineteen forty two as a radio operator. He chose to never retire and was working as an actor right up until his death at the age of ninety eight. And this one's a little sad, but little, you know. I just wanted to point it out because I mentioned Rick moranis a couple minutes ago. The day before Carl Reiner died, he spent the whole day with his close friend Mel Brooks to celebrate Mel's ninety fourth birthday. And I think they My understanding is that they took photographs of the entire day and then like we're uploading them to social media so you could kind of like follow along on their adventures. Definitely, definitely great. Those guys are awesome.

9:59 If you have I've ever seen it go on Netflix to Comedians and Cars getting Coffee and watched the episode that Jerry did with the two of them. It is the most beautiful, amazing thing and you will laugh until you can't. It's so good. I think that's probably the best Comedians and Cars getting Coffee episode in my opinion. Yeah, I mean you've got legends there, right. Yeah, there's there's a bunch that I like, but that one is definitely the best. You have to remember Rainer, you know, he didn't start off directing movies. He didn't start off acting. He was behind the scenes on said Caesar. He was a writer, and I love that, you know him being a writer.

10:41 I love. I love this quote. He once said, I'm a charming coward. I fight with words. That's fantastic, that's amazing. Amber. Let's talk about Summer Rental, which is celebrate like I said, celebrating its fortieth anniversary, comes out in nineteen eighty five. I'm going to guess that maybe there's some listeners that haven't seen this film, maybe there's some that need a rewatch. But tell us briefly, what is Summer Rental all about. John Candy plays an overworked air traffic controller who has put on a five week paid leave and takes his family to Citrus Cove, Florida, where he experiences hilarious mishaps and contends with an arrogant sailing champion.

11:28 This is one of those let's be honest. The plot isn't overly complicated. It's just a fun summer movie. Yeah, it's kind of like they took over. If you talk to somebody about going on vacation over the years, they'd say, oh, remember the year that you hurt your knee, or remember the year that we went to the wrong house, And you know, not all of it would happen in One Summer, but it happens that way for John Canty. I find it very suspicious that a year later, One Crazy Summer comes out and the ending to that movie is virtually the ending to this movie. With the boat. Let's let's fix up a boat that can't float, and then we're gonna race it and we're gonna win. We're gonna beat the the people, the Unbeatable Team Summer Summer's Summer Rental did it first? I love One Crazy Summer.

12:21 We covered it better, yeah, well, yeah, we we covered it on d Graves from the sure You Can't Be Serious podcast joined me to cover that on our Patreon. It was one of our lost episodes of nineteen six. Earlier this year, Dan Jason covered it on the Surely you Can't Be Serious podcast. They it was a One Crazy Summer against Better Off Dead, which that's a sensational matchup, so go check them out. You know, well, I might say that a few times. Dayton Johnson over at Docking Base seventy seven. He and I have an ongoing argument that he thinks One Summer is the better movie and I think The Sure Thing is the better movie. So on our discord that is, and every now and then I'll be like.

13:09 And you know what, one's sure the sure thing was better. It's it's a tough call, it really is. No, it's not. I got I gotta, I gotta I got amber Who who takes a U haul on vacation? I am a notorious overpacker. I've never taken a U haul, but I I'm always worried about contingencies and I always somehow feel like like there aren't stores where I'm going, so I can take. Everything, okay, But I guess okay, So here's the thing. I guess aid. Because you kind of get the feeling because he says, like they haven't gone on vacation since their honeymoon.

13:51 Yeah, so he's. Kind of like, I want everybody to have a good time and have everything they need. Well, you know the joke. The joke there, like, you know, because I'm and I'm like, as a kid, you don't really pay attention to this kind of stuff, But as an adult, I'm like, wait, he's they've got the car packed and he's got a four x eight cargo trailer from U haul hooked up. The hell's going on? He you know, he gets in the car. He's like, I know him forgetting you know, I know him forgetting something. And his wife's like, only the wallpaper, but we can buy some at the store when we get there, and he's, you know, I just okay, think about this though. They're going on a four week summer vacation. You know. He he's an air traffic controller who is just burned out, stressed out. His boss basically forces him on a four week vacation because he hasn't taken any vacation time. And that's a four week rental from U haul. I think about how much money he's spending just on that four y eight cargo trailer to go to the go live in a beach an airbnb, you know, by the beach.

14:57 It's it's just crazy. I don't know. I I can't wrap my head around it. I really can't. I don't know. There were five of us in our family, and there were at least a couple of years where we had to get one of. Those like pod things that you put on top. Of the Okay, I'm all in on that. You know, I could see a family of four, family of five, you know, we got you gotta have it all somewhere because they've got the family dog in the in the back seat with them. Okay, a pod on you know what of those like things? A cargo trailer from you haul, that's that's that's pushing it. I don't know. Maybe I'm if there's a if there's. Clearly never packed to go anywhere with children. I have not. But uh, listeners, if you have gone on a family vacation, an extended family family vacation, and you're you're going to tell me that a U haul a four by eight cargo trailer from you hall is you know, a wise investment, Please please email us let us know.

15:46 I need to hear this story. I want to hear the story. Yeah, I want to hear the story. Let's uh, let's talk about this cast and crew. John Candy as Jack Chester. This is his first starring role in a film. You know, he's been in a couple movies. He's always like the the you know, the the funny guy that shows up for a couple of minutes. But this is this is a John Candy film, nineteen eighty five. He's paid eight hundred thousand dollars to do it. And Amber, I'm sitting here, I was just watching him because, like John, Candy's one of those actors that just he always looked the same age, no matter what year it was. He's thirty five years old in summer rental. That's hard to believe. Yes, that really is like I was like, he you know, because he's like I've always known him as like a dad, you know, in movies. But when I think about a thirty five year old man with three children and a dog and a wife, It's like, no, that can't be. I just can't, you know, Yep, I don't know. What do you think about Candy in.

16:49 This He I love him and everything. I've never seen him do anything. I might not have liked the movie, but I loved him. Oh okay, I didn't. Little tip there. You've given me no indication that you're not a fan of this movie. But you go that I love this movie. Oh I thought you said no, I said everything he's ever done. Oh I thought you said you didn't. You know, you may not like this movie, but. No, I may not the movie that he's in. Oh okay, thank you? So like you might not be a fan of Wagons East, but you know you're gonna Yeah, Okay, Okay, thank you for clarifying, because I was I was not. I didn't have fight with Amber on the agenda. Yeah no, And I thought I.

17:32 Was like, oh for insanity. Yeah, I was like, I thought, we we're zigging this whole episode. But okay, I love John Candy. Here's something. Here's something you can love about him. He gives books to everyone on set to keep him busy during the downtime. The book he gives Karen, now Karen Austin plays his wife in the film. He gives her a book on photography, and she loves it so much she picks up a camera and they incorporate it into a movie. So she's taking pictures throughout the entire film shoot. And if you if you watch the credits, and I'm sure you did, Amber, all those all those Polaris, those are actually Karen Austin's pictures. You know. Carl Reiner loved it.

18:22 You know, she was like, oh, look all these pictures from the past seven weeks and He's like, I love it. Can I use them? And yeah, so those are the real because like you, when you watch it, you're like, wow, the wife, the mom, Like she's not in any of those. But then it's it's typical like you know, like you you know, every every time you go on, you're always taking them, you're never in them, right yep, until a very like towards it. I think the end. There's one shot where it's like, hey, hey, let's do a group shot and they have the camera set up, you know, in front of them. Yes, I just think that's amazing, more amazing. Nineteen eighty five, this is a big year for Candy. Summer Rental is first starring role. He's also in Brewsters Millions and Volunteers. I don't remember him. And Brewsters Millions.

19:03 Well, oh he played he played Richard Pryor's buddy. He was the catcher. Oh gosh, I don't remember that at all. I remember you guys Prior and the actress that ye was the accountant. Yeah, so I remember them. I don't remember really remember. Remember Brewster is the pitcher for the for the for the baseball team. Yeah. John Candy is the catcher. That's they got like that, that's the battery, you know, when they're in the like the mansion and they're they're they're playing catch and John Candy has like that. He bought him like that that Catcher's mitt uh, go like twenty four Carrot Catcher's mitt Uh. George, I just remember never understanding the end of the movie and how he ended up spending the last of the money.

19:47 Well, we'll talk about that watching it again, I guess, I guess. Yeah, big, big, big year for Candy. Yeah, his nemesis in the movie is all so having a pretty big year. I'm talking about Richard Crenna playing Al Pellett. How is Colonel Sam Troutman this lunatic guy? How is. Krinna is the chief villain of this movie? Comedic villain? We should say yes. And the same year, he's reprising his role as Colonel Sam Troutman and Rambo First Blood Part two. And I have a hard time with that because I love Troutman. Yeah, he's the mentor father figure that all action heroes should have. And he's such a jerk in this movie.

20:40 Oh my god, the opening scene with him in the restaurant when he keeps hitting his wife on the arm. Oh, like I would pick up whatever was handy and smack him over the head with it. Yeah, And we're talking about like that when someone that obnoxious person that's like that does like the playful shove. Yeah, you know at someone like, oh you get it, come on, that's funny. Yeah, and you're like this poor woman. Yeah, he's you know, he's telling it. He looks over his buddy they're at like they're at that's this very upscale, fancy seafood place. He's like, hey, no arguments, this dinner is on you. You know. It's he's that guy that laughs at his own jokes. But he's also very entitled.

21:23 You know, he's like a legend around town. You know, he gets he's got his own table at this place. He's won the regatta seven years in a row with his boat, the incisor. What a horrible name of a boat? Uh well, you know, like you know, it's a sharp tooth that you know, cuts the waves. Maybe I don't know anything about sailing, Like these regattas, Like he's got a crew of like seven or eight people and they're all dressed in uniform. You know, he's even yelling at everybody. Yeah, he's acting like he's in like the America's cup, And well, is. Anyone like are they working for him? Or these just buddies? Like I don't I don't understand it like the you know, I. Watched, I paid close attention because I was concerned that maybe it was his family and he was like being abusive to them on the boat. But no, I think this is a crew that he hired. It's a crew that he hired, a crew for the America's Cup.

22:14 So you're saying he's I mean, he's wealthy, he owns half the town, and he's just he's just hiring people he got. Yeah, he got a bunch of young kids from the sailing club or whatever that he can boss around. And yeah, talking that shirt, Floyd would look like, dress like a winner. It's like, you're sailing, dude. But it's just a fun summer. God, come on, there's something I want to I want to go back to that that lobster scene or the restaurant scene here when we talk about when we talk about some scenes, I want I want to go I want to readdress that. But you're right, dude's a jerk, and it's hard. It's hard to say that about Richard Crenna. Yeah, but hats off to him. He is a He is a wonderful. He is a spectacular slimy Yeah got club.

22:58 Just you just you just want to punch this guy in the face. You know, I'll tell you you don't want to punch in the face rip Torn playing Scully. Okay, I got tired of the pirate voice. Thing, did you. I wanted him to like just talk in your normal voice. It's just got obnoxious after a while. Okay, So he's I get, I get what you're saying, but I feel like he's he's putting on the show right for like the families that show up at the restaurant at the Barnacle. But then there's there's a couple of scenes where it's like when when him and John Candy are just out sailing the moonlight getting drunk. Yes, he's got a little bit of just say I'm just being a normal guy here. And yeah, he tends to during the in the regatta when it looks like they're definitely they've they're losing it. There's nothing else that can do.

23:47 He's you know, Jackie, you've done beautifully, but this this old guy, she's got nothing else for you. You know. Yeah, But to your point, he's like when he's arguing with Angus, he does he definitely he definitely as up the pirate vibe. And he's you know, he's clearly he's dressed like a pirate the entire time. But yes, I always forget that this is ripped torn because he's he's a little. Young, Yes, because like I always think of the way he looked on the Gary Shandling Show. Okay, well yeah, I see like that or Men in Black. Yeah, you know that's I always think ripped Torn when you know, clearly we should be thinking ripped Horn and the Beast Master where he's a psychopath.

24:29 See, if I had thought of that, I keep forgetting he was in Beast Master. If I thought of that, I would have felt much better about this. Yeah. Well, let's not forget a dodgeball a true underdog story. You know, if you dodge a rune, can dodge the ball, pat patches a hula han. He's he's fun. But it's just it's just weird to see a younger I say younger, not young, but a younger ripped torn. You know, he's he was a little more. Born, looking like fifty years old. Yeah, that's that's true. Like there's you know like he yeah, I mean he's because he's got like the salt and pepper beard and this and this is nineteen aay five, so a lot of fun, though, a lot of fun. I like. I think him and him and Candy play play well, yes, off one of one another for sure.

25:14 I want to talk about Carrie Green. She's playing John Candy's oldest daughter. I thought she was so cool when I was ten years old. I was gonna say, this is well, this is this is what ten year old girls want to look like in nineteen eighty five. Right, Yeah, she's dressed cool, she's got the headphones. So let's let's talk about Kerry Green. In nineteen eighty four, she tells her parents that she doesn't want to go to summer camp so that she can instead go to New York City and go on some movie auditions. Good choice, Carrie, because she gets she gets discovered by Steven Spielberg, who casts her as Andy in The Goonies, which is one of the biggest movies that A five, and the same year she's playing John Canny's daughter. So Candy's got three movies this year. Richard Krenna has two big movies this year, and Carrie Green has two big movies this year as well. So but here's the weird thing, Like like when you look at Kerrie Green in nineteen eighty five, like she is like the blueprint for America's sweetheart. Like you just assume that in five years she's gonna be Americas sweetheart, and she's gonna she's gonna have like the Sondra Bullock roles and the Meg Ryan rolls. Right, she's gonna be in the She's gonna be like the rom com queen. However, after nineteen eighty five, a year later, she does what I feel is probably her best acting in the nineteen eighty six film Lucas, Yeah, which we we covered on our

26:45 limited series. Yeah, go back and check out Lucas, our Lucas episode. Well, go back and check out Lucas, but also go back and check out our Lucas episode. And then a year later after she does like she does another movie with Charlie Sheen and a and then she quits acting to attend ten college. She goes to Vassar and you know, enter the nineteen nineties, she gets married and never looked back. She's she's popped up on some TV and a couple of TV movies here and there. But here's a surprising thing for you. Happily married has a couple of kids. Do you know who she's married to? No, actor John C. McKinley, Oliver Stone favorite, John C. McGinley.

27:32 You know, I always love him in Point Break, you know, when he's especially tall. Yeah, you know, and not Scrubs. You know, I can't remember his name on Scrubs, the doctor that was always the hard case. Give him. Oh, I never watched it, but she's married to John C. McGinley. He's awesome choice. Yeah, tell you. Also awesome her headphones. I know you had to pick up immediately on the fact that she's listening to uh, Harold Faldemeyer's axel f Yeah, from Beverly Hills Cop. And then she's listening Footloose in the movie. Yeah, Paramount. This is smart, Like, think about this. This is a Paramount movie, and they're plugging Paramount movies throughout the entire thing.

28:13 We're see every poster the movie. Oh yeah, don't put a pin in that. We're gonna talk about that, we're leading up to that. But this is just smart. You know what, I'm gonna put a pin in it myself. I'm gonna hold off, just hold that thought. Let's let's uh, let's let's talk about another Chester child, very young Joey Lawrence playing Bobby. He was so cute. Well this is like this, Yeah, in the nineteen eighty every kid had to have that that haircut. A shout out to to my parents who chose not to give me that hair in our house, not our house, Thank you, Mom and Dad. Joey Lawrence best known for the TV show Melissa and Joey, where I didn't I ever saw it, but I remember I guess he's playing Joey. He's playing himself.

29:00 Okay, him in a crimy horror movie really and like. Like wait, Joey or I don't. Know as an adult, like it was like in two thousand and two or something, and that's like the only thing I remember him from. Well, here's the other thing too. I don't know what's going on with this guy. But when you look at some of the most popular television shows in the eighties, the sitcoms, he is in Silver Spoons, He's in Different Strokes, and his his breakout role arguably on Give Me a Break with Nel Carter. Yeah, all three shows he plays a kid named Joey. I don't know, you know, he's he's fun here he's adorable. He's doing typical.

29:52 He will answer to anything else. Yes, maybe that's I don't know, maybe that's what it is. But yeah, he's. Fun. I'll tell you who's not fun. It's one more actor. I want to one more, one more person I want to talk about before we take a break. John Larriquette as Don Moore or shot or or shall we call him by his his real name, home Wrecker. He is Oh, well, okay, hold, okay, let's just you talked about you're talking. Okay, we're gonna get into this. So let's just I know, I know, I'm jumping the gun here a little bit. But yeah, it's it's not memorable scene or it's not definitely at the pivotal moment unless But so John Candy, he's had the boat accident. He's in the air cast. He it's he there's raining and he just wants to stay at home watch golf. So his wife takes the kids. They go to the movies, all right, and she has forgotten her wallet. You know, she's pulling out all this, all this crap out of her purse, all the pulling stuff, and the.

31:02 Mom what are you doing? And from behind her there's smarmy John Learri Katt and his team son, hold on, let me get there, and he says he he leans for like through him and like with a with a with an. Andrew Jackson's like, you know what, just just here, let's let me pay, let me let me take care of this. And she's like, oh, I can't, you can't do that, and he's like, no, please, I don't mind. How happy to. So here's the thing. Amber If I'm John Lark, well, I'm not John Lark kid, I don't want to be. But if I'm that, if I'm Don Moore, Okay, see. Here's the problem. You haven't watched the last wing yet, so you haven't seen him do the best cameo ever. Okay, well then and that okay, but okay, so you have okay, so you have a bias right now. But let me let me let me state my case. He let me argue with you. On the surface, he is there with his teenage son. It's an act of kindness.

31:56 He's he's a single parent and he knows like this woman does not want to let her kid. It's down. I can do a nice thing, an act of kindness, and fine, that's good if that's where it ends. But a day later he is inviting them out on his boat and they're hanging out, and then you're like, what, what's what's going on with this guy? You know? And then later at the regatta, he's watching the family dog and he's sitting there with his son and I'm like, you know, you don't. Let's let's call it what it is. John Candy's wife played by Karen Austin, she's I mean, let's be honest. She's she's smoking hot.

32:36 Yeah, smoking hot. This is maybe I think John Candy maybe started the whole. Hey I'm a big I'm a big guy. I'm funny and I'm gonna have a hot wife who's way on my legue kind of kind of. Breaks their pal. Did he not start it? Choose John Candy all day every day like. Well, no, no, no, I'm not. I'm not saying you shouldn't. I'm just saying I'm just saying, like when you think of like King of Queens and like all these movies, like all these movies and these TV shows where you've got the funny guy, the big funny guy, you know, or like not even like like think like Jim Belushi, you know, like you tell me, he's like get Courtney thorn Smith. And according to Jim, no, no he's not, just not he haven't. I'm sorry, but you know, I don't know. We're getting I'm getting off the rails.

33:20 Here, we're tasting back to don Here. Here's the point, I think when he paid for the tickets. Yeah, he's single, he's divorced. He sees this woman, maybe she's single, who knows he does a nice thing. Maybe you get a date out of it, maybe you just make a friend out of it. And John Candy could have gone with them at any time. And he was being all maudlin and didn't want to go, and she kept trying to get him to go. Yeah, and he was like, no, I'm just gonna stay at home. And that was his choice. He was one hundred percent invited every time. True. But more, lest we forget, he was at home with the neighbor holding her.

34:09 Hold on them, hold on, stay on the rails. Here we we we we almost went off before with the big guy hot wife thing. Let's get back. Here's the thing, Amber you have. You have walked right into my trap, oh dear, because here is the truth about John Moore played by John Lara Keett. There was a subplot involving larak Kt stealing Candy's wife and them having like a romantic thing, and test audiences hated it, so Carl Reiner cut it out. Well, they did not like John Mark, they didn't like him. So if he's gonna be stealing John Candy's.

34:51 Wife the way, Okay, So when you watch, I mean, this movie is like eighty five minutes long, and when you watch it, it's like, oh, here's a nice guy doing a nice thing. And then oh wait, this guy just is wanting to invite him out on the on the boat, like hey, hey lady, you know, why don't you put on your bathing suit and come sailing and get my get on my boat here, and you know, let's have fun. Children. Okay, that's fine, but they're gonna they gotta swim and you know, not pay attention to what what Don Moore is up to. And meanwhile, you know, in the in the full and the full cut, like we're never gonna see the Reiner cut where we get this this subplot. But originally there was some more scenes at home before they go on vacation that kind of show why this family is dysfunctional and why John Candy's overworked and stressed, and it kind of creates like that, it kind of adds to like the rift like they start having, you know, because like the movie.

35:46 Again, and I think this movie is perfect the way it is. All of that is a bunch of masks. Yeah, but at the same time, like other movies. That do the same thing like cliche. Yeah, but you know what I'm just saying, Like back to Don Moore, it's just weird, like Okay, hey, I oh, do you need me to show up and watch your dog while you jump on the boat and go sailing and take pictures? Sure, like you're like something something's not right with Don Moore. I've always thought that, you know, child Jeff thought it, you know, didn't didn't care for this guy, there was he was always suspect. And now doing the research for this pod, I find out that he was trying to steal Candy's wife. So there it is.

36:27 I like the world that I'm living in where he was just a nice guy. Well, okay, let's let's stick with him. Let's let's let's turn this sitution. Let's turn the conversation about Don Moore in a positive light. I want to have I want to talk about the movie theater. You start talking about the film posters, I said, let's put a pin in it. So here we are, we see in the in the we see posters in this lobby for Uncommon Valor, Footloose, top Secret, Friday the thirteenth Part five, a New Beginning which happens to star my friend Tiffany Hilme who spoke with us about Friday thirteenth Part five last year. Go back and check out that episode. And then lastly, an Amber Lewis favorite Dragon Slayer. So Amber, my question is what are Lara Chett and his son, his teenage son Greg going to see? What were they on their way to see? And what was what was the Chester family?

37:25 What were they going to see? And ultimately it seems like they all are going to go see the same movie. So from that lineup, I mean, there's only a couple options. Right, You can't you can't, you can't take the kids to see Friday thirteen five. I dare say that the Chester family, the kids weren't going to go see Uncommon Valor starring Gene Hackman, which is awesome. Maybe maybe laraic Keett was taking his son to see that one. Maybe it's gotta be Dragonslayer. Right, I don't know. I thought it was Footloose. Okay, I guess I think you're listening to the music and. Okay, so make the argument for Footloose? Is it is it? You know, young, young hot mom and the teenage daughter. I want to see Footloose because it's footloose and well and like the other like the toddler child, and then who we're gonna get to in a second, and then Bobby, you know, Joey Lawrence. Like they're just they're happy to go to a movie. They don't care.

38:18 Yes, Like this is the kind of situation that we were in in my family in the eighties where we saw thatch of stuff when we were really too young to understand it. We watched Footloose. I didn't get half of what was going on, but people were dancing and the music was good. I think here's what here's my thought. I don't think Larakett and his sounmer planning to go see foot Loose. I'm I'm I'm thinking they're seeing dragons Layer or they're seeing Uncommon Valor. And then he's just gonna zag and he's like, no, hey son, we're gonna go shut up. See I wanted this. This chick's look, she's got a teenage daughter. She's wearing headphones too. I don't think he even needed to say anything because that he and Carrie Green like just kind of went off together.

38:59 Yeah. I don't know. I think I don't know. I think Bobby is like ten minutes in the Footloose, he's like, mom, no, no, what you know, he's being a turd. And meanwhile, there's a movie in the next the theater. The next door. You can hear Dragon Slayer, and he's he knows that there's dragons and there's. He probably he's a clever one, so he probably said he had to go to the bathroom and then snuck out and went into Dragon Slayer. And you know, the toddler like fell asleep. So it doesn't even matter. All right, Well, Amber, you are taking Liam the child into the movie theater. These are the movies? Are you guys? And larak ktt and and you know he's he's behind you, he's about to pay for your tickets. What are you seeing?

39:45 Like out of all these movies? What do you what are you going to see? I mean I was a terrible mother. I took Liam when he was like four to see Batman be kids, and I could he was. I called my brother a. Like, I think good for Kim. I thought it was like Batman. I didn't know. He was like, yeah, this sudden like eighty nine Batman. So yeah, you want to wait? Were you one of those upset mothers? Like like I bought the Happy Meal and this this movie's this penguin's scary, scared my child and he's trying to have sex with Michelle Fire for this is not Batman. Oh no, no, no, no, no oh, you're like it's awesome. Yeah, I just fell back because he was scared.

40:28 It's like, uh, all right, so what what movie? So yeah, I totally would have taken him to see Dragonslayer because that's what I wanted to see, and then you'd have nightmares for a week. Are you letting John Learquette buy your tickets? Yeah, there's an implication there, Amber all right now. Because she said I will accept if you will allow us to pay you back. It's nineteen eighty five. They're on vacation out of state, Like there's no how how are you ever gonna Oh he knows. He's like, oh, give me your number. I got a boat, you got a bathing suit. I'm a single, though, my motivations are a lot. Okay, true, but I'm just. Saying, like he's single, I'm single. And Karen Austin in this movie Newsflash, she's only twenty eight years old, playing a mother of teenage Carrie Green.

41:14 How's that forense? Yeah, she had her when she was like thirteen. Well, you know when they're on the beach and like the guys are like whistling at them, and you know, she's like mom, you know, it's like, yeah, it's you know, your mom's your mom's hot. Yeah I did. I did laugh at her in that bikini. I was like, well done. You did not look like you had three children. Yeah, someone's doing their pilates and the third tri master. I guess. I don't know. I don't know much about that stuff, but I do know this, Samberg, We've got to take a break. When we come back, I want to talk a little bit about music. I want to talk about the background of this one. This one's got a pretty interesting background. How it all comes to be well, we'll talk about that in a minute. Welcome back. We're discussing Carl Reiner's nineteen eighty five comedic classic Summer Rental starring John Candy. Interesting music here, Amber and Again we've been talking about how this actor has got two big movies this summer, like a handful of them are doing that.

42:24 The composer Alan Silvestri is also having a pretty good year because he's composed the music for Summer Rental. He's also composed the music for Back to the. Future, which is like the greatest music. It is pretty iconic, it's pretty amazing, and this guy has got scores in two big movies. I feel like he used all of his pixie dust back to the Future. And this music reminded me of the music from like a movie like Uh Tootsy or Baby Boom or something where it's like kind of repetitive but pleasant.

43:07 It's kind of like, hey, I've I've got I've got something extra here I can I can throw something together for you. You know, Yeah, I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna say this in somewhere our our scoring session expert Wayne Whited is gonna be activated, like come, come and get me right, kind of a kind of kind of a kind of a mundane Allen Sevestrie film score. It's very forgettable, Like right now, I'm thinking, right now, I watched this twenty four hours ago. I can't remember any of the music except for the very awesome Jimmy Buffett song turning Around. Oh my gosh, am I wrong?

43:49 That song started and I was like, what host I had? I love Buffett. I completely forgot, Like when it started, I was like, huh, sounds like it would have been a Jimmy Buffett song. And then you hear the voice and I'm like, wait, is this is this a Jimmy Buffet's song. I'm like Google, like I'm watching the movie. I'm Google like turning Around. I just I put turning Around Jimmy Buffett question mark And then it popped up Summer Rental like, and it's one of those songs like people love this Jimmy Buffett song, I guess. And I didn't do a whole lot of deep diving here, but apparently it's not featured on any of his albums. No, you can only hear it in the movie. Only in the movie, because I did a little little Wayne White at action and found out that initially Allen Silvestrie's score was released in like they only did like one hundred and fifty copies or like something something low, something crazy. They sold out one hundred and fifty thousand, hundred, I don't know, it was a small amount, thank you.

44:48 It's nineteen eighty five. They sold out, and then it was gone for a long time, and then they brought out I guess the movie hit like an anniversary year, and they brought out four different versions like extended versions of the score, and like one album looked like the blue Whammo Frisbee that butt, and one was like yeah one like each each one had like a different like one was like a reddish yellowish one. One was like a barnacle themed one. Like they did like they had some fun with it, but all of them were missing the Jimmy Buffett song turning Around. So you have to if you want this song, you have to buy the movie or rent.

45:30 You have to do like like we did in the eighties where you hold your boombox. Television. You have to you have to go to YouTube play the song and then and then download it as an MP four or an MP three or whatever. The hell. That's that's how you're gonna get it. But uh, it is a it's a great song. It is absolutely a great song. Yeah, Jimmy Buffett fans, uh they know that. And if you don't know Jimmy Buffett that much, you'd like this song. Moving on this, like I said before the break, this this movie, it comes together in a very unusual way. I want to I want to hit you with some some fun stuff. You're Amber. So it's filmed in Saint Pete Beach, Florida. The town of Citrus Cove doesn't exist. That's a fictional town, I think. And they apparently the sign is still there like on the on the bridge. It was like a yeah, how how has a film film geek not went down there and stolen that?

46:28 Right? I'm not I'm not condoning that behavior, by the way, but if you happen to have it, you know, please message me. You know, we'll talk numbers. Amber. I feel I get myself in trouble. The film was inspired by a real life situation with producer Bernie Brilstein. This guy had rented a beach house. He comes home after dinner one night to find it packed with uninvited guests, and it was real Stein's client who had in fact let them all inside. Now, as he's kicking everybody out, and this sounds reminiscence because they kind of made this scene happen in Yes, as he's kicking everybody out, he's wondering where the hell this this, this, this guy is that he allowed to stay with him. He finds him sleeping in his bed in wet sand filled swimming trunks, just like you see in the movie Amber. Do you know who that client was, Phil Murray close? His name was John Belushish.

47:38 Yeah, I'm not surprised. If you're gonna summer with John Belushi, you better not leave him home alone. Seriously, you have to expect that kind of shenan again. Yeah, now here, this this fascinates me. The film was greenlit by new Paramount chief executive Ned Tannin he realizes the studio's summer release schedule has one movie on it. I think about that. It like every studio is like, we got we have to have our two big movies in June and two in July and two and all, like you gotta have a lot, right, they have one? Paramount has one movie on the slate for summer release, and that's Joe Dante's Explorers. Which I loved but was not setting the world on fire. Well you know I love it too, but it's the only one because the planned releases of Clue and Young Sherlock Holmes had been delayed to the fall. So this guy Tannin reads the script for summer rental on a Friday in early nineteen eighty five, and the film was put into production on the following Monday, with Carl Reiner and John Candy already in place to direct and Starr. Wow, is this guy like the like the king of movers and Shakers?

48:50 Like I mean, like, hey, I bet making a pitch like he must be he could rule that studio and Player? Yeah, yeah, go back and listen to our Robert the Player episode, which I I have some thoughts about that movie, and Amberg has has some different thoughts. But yeah, they shoot this in seven weeks from March to April of nineteen eighty five, and then quickly release it in August. Think about how fast that's that's moving. That would never happen today. You couldn't do. You couldn't do no. Clint Eastwood probably could. Maybe maybe Clinton.

49:31 We talked about how quickly he moves. Yeah, this was the first movie with with such a short turn around time to be released that year, and the second one that had a similar shooting schedule was one of my favorites, Commando, which which came out in October of that year. Yeah, which, yeah, I mean, you just have Arnold blowing things up, so it's fine. Yeah. Speaking of Arnold blowing things up, I kind of mentioned Jason Andy once or twice or sixty times already. But listen, they just recently did a Commando Versus Rambo two episode, which I had been dying and listened to since I heard about it last year when they were pitching it. Go check them out again. Go check out our friends at the show You Can't Be Stares podcast to listen to that episode episodes, I should say, because they were just awesome, absolutely awesome. John Candy and John larri Quette and Lois Hamilton all three appeared together. This was not their first movie together. They had appeared together in Stripes in nineteen eighty one. And you're saying, Lois Hamilton, Yeah, what do you think of these? That's that's less Hamilton. Yeah.

50:46 Ford model turned actress, famous model in the seventies. It's a very comedic, albeit interesting role in this movie. Issues he's showing anyone that will pay attention long enough her her her new implants and getting their opinion on how real they look. I love it. At the end when she asked the judge, it's like he's a judge. Her giant hulking contractor husband is like, really, you know he's a judge. You know, I listen, it's it's uh. I think it's a fun joke that like they keep coming back to throughout the movie. Yes, it's kind of fun, like.

51:32 Yeah, I thought it was hilarious. Yeah, yeah, And it's one of those I usually. Don't like stuff like that. But you don't see her, You only ever see her from like the back. So I can only imagine how how many times the pause button was hit on this VHS copy with the male youth of America just say is it there? Because you know you think like I think I saw something but he didn't right or did you it? Did you? I'll never tell This film Amber finished in second place on its opening weekend, beating the other new comedy, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, which came in third place, So any any any guesses as to what was first place? I gave you, I gave you, I did give you a hint.

52:25 Was it Back to the Future. It was Back to the Future, which held the number one spot for six straight weeks. If you're going to premiere your new comedy and you're gonna lose to anybody, I think losing to Back. To the Future is pretty fine. That's fine. Yeah, you're second place is fine? When went back to the futures first place? Let's talk about a couple scenes. We've already talked about couple of scenes, but I got a couple I'd like to talk about and we'll figure out what the pivotal moment is for for you and I. You mentioned the restaurant scene where Richard as just being a jerk to his wife. He's been obnoxious, you know, don't serve those What are you doing? These are my lobsters, your lobsters. Yeah, you got my table, but you're not getting my lobsters. Ok. And this is your table my table?

53:16 Oh, I see. This is your table and these are your lobsters. You got it. I suppose this is your wife? Is this your time? Is this your shirts? Is this your belt? Are these your shirts? Hey? I have been driving all day long. We just get into town. I'm waiting, not in line every two hours. These are my lobsters. So the scene, you know, they've been waiting. First off, I don't care how good the restaurants. I would do two hours for anything. I'm not. The line is around the block. They're waiting and waiting and waiting, and he, you know, the tank, the lobster tanks getting, you know, fewer and fewer. Richard Crenna and his party of five come in and steal the table from you know, John Candy's family, and then they take the lobsters, and you know, we get this great exchange. My lobster is my table, you know all this is your table.

54:17 And he has the audacity to say that because John Candy is just a summer renter. He is entire He feels entitled. Yeah, like when he was the one that walked in without a reservation, stole his table, stole his lot. I just love I love the whole. Like Candy Candy realizing that he's being defeated in the moment when he's like, is this your shirt? Is this your tie? When he on zips his spasically, these are your shorts, and his wife's like, oh, he goes he makes that noise. Yeah, he's so gross to her. He is, but I know I shouldn't laugh, but that that just that that noise he makes the a shush her.

55:00 He he could have went or shush or I'm talking to her, but he he does that. It makes me laugh like like an idiot every time I watch this. It's a fun scene though, because it's this is this is where it begins for these guys. This is their their first fight and it's gonna They're gonna they're gonna trade blows throughout the movie until they the big regatta race at the end. Right, love that moment. We talked about Jimmy Buffet's turning around. You know, any any good eighties movie typically has a montage scene. So you know, let's let's take an old, broken down boat that's being used as a restaurant. Let's get it sea ready for the regatta, and all the while we're gonna hear Jimmy Buffett's turning around, which and that for me.

55:47 I'm jumping the gun a little bit. But that is the pivotal scene. For me because it's the. First time in the whole trip that they're all having the same vacation. Good call, I didn't even think about that. Amber you Yeah, you might. You might have just won me over to this being the pivotal moment because yeah, they we've seen nothing but dysfunction the entire movie, and here the entire families together, their new friends, uh Scully and his crew of a degenerates or you know from the bar, They're all everyone's together, everyone's working together. Yeah, more believable. Is it more believable that a family like this that has no experience with uh, you know, carpentry, painting, repair, boat maintenance?

56:37 Can they can they build this boat? Or can they can they can they restore this boat? Uh? Is it more likely that they can restore this boat? Or is it more likely that the nerds from from a Lambda lamber Lambda can can basically remodel an entire house in Revenge of the Nerds. What do you think? Who? Who? Who? Who wins this? This? This? Uh? This kind of test? Well, I'm gonna go with more wholesome choice and root for John Candy and his family. All right, Well, I mean I think that boat was pretty wasn't it quite as in a bad shape as. Yeah, the land it was a shithole. Yeah, yeah, all right, but you know when you have when you have a toddler, you put don't put a paint brush in a tyler's hand, A good chat. Okay, you just you're just dragging this movie into the wholesome.

57:32 Yes, well, and you keep talking about him as dysfunctional. I think John Candy, I love him as a father in this. Movie, like, no, well, he was out of his weight and he does with these kids, but it just feels hard. It does feel a little weird that because in the middle of the movie, he's he's he's well, and I get it, he's he's injured. He wants to stay at home, and then he's not injured, but he wants to hang out with Scully and drink it the bar and mean while she's all, well. Here's something that's very subtle. But I like the way they do it. As a larger person myself, it is hard to be a large person on vacation at the beach, Like it's just not an environment where you're comfortable. And he admits to being insecure and the one time he went to the beach. It was, you know, Shenanigans, trying to find you know, play with his kid and the whole thing.

58:30 So you know that one. Setback of hurting his knee makes it so easy to be like, you know, it's a struggle to do this anyway. He yeah, Yeah, I wouldn't like that kind of cast. I would not want to be. At the beach an inflatable plastic bag on your leg. Yeah, Amber, I think I think you've won me over. I think the boat montage to fix the boat montage seen, I think that's pivotal moment because and it's only for the reason that you give is that the family has come together and they're all they're all having this. I love that. I love that phrame. They're all having the same vacation. Can I give you a runner up like I was I had, I had my Pivol moment. I'm gonna call it. Well now now it's got to be the runner up after you, after you gave that astute breakdown.

59:21 I think we got to talk a little bit about Candy having a heart to heart with his daughter on the beach. I love that song, very touching. Now here's why, here's why I initially thought was the pivot moment. He's bonding, he's making some time for his daddy daughter time, and the dialogue, you know, she she's like, how's the boat and he's like, well, you can't win them all and she looks at him kind of with these sad eyes and she was, but wouldn't you like to win one? Wouldn't your dad? And that dialogue is so telling that, you know, like the way she looks at her dad, like she sees that he is he's he's not he's not a winner, is what you know, kind of and not enough. Yeah, it's not a cruel thing. She just knows like that, my dad just he doesn't win, you know, he's never won one. And it's it's a little heartbreaking, but it's also it's a I think it's a great moment between those two characters. It's really good, good writing as far as I'm concerned, And for me, I was like, it tells you a lot about who Jack Chester is and why he's this burned out, stressed out air traffic controller who neglected you know, you know, and I'm talking about the overall like so this the cut scenes, but like you know, where he's probably neglected his family. He's probably neglected his marriage. You know, hasn't taken a trip since their honeymoon. I just love that moment. It's you know, because you know when she shows up, like she kicks off the montage, She's like, hey, Dad, this could be the one. And then you know, crank up, Jimmy buffet.

1:00:50 We're gonna bid this. We're gonna fix this boat up, all right, Amber, Let's uh, let's take one more break and then we'll come back. We'll start wrapping things up, all right, Lewis Uh. This is the part where we always talk about the director. You know, if you were not familiar, if someone's not familiar with with Carl Reiner, what three films would you suggest they watch? Now, I'm gonna I'm gonna offer you something here. We can talk Carl Reiner, or you can give me your favorite John Candy movies, or how about an you can do a mix. You can be like, hey, I'm gonna call out this Carl Reiner movie. I'm gonna call it this John Candy movie.

1:01:31 You can mix and match. You can go all Candy, you can go all Reiner. Amber, What do you got? Someone watches Summer rental and they're like, I love this director and I love this this this guy, John Candy. What do you got for me? What can you tell me? Amber? What are you? What are you going with? Well? I am going all Carl Reiner, But he didn't, surprising. Well because I think just just if John Candy is in it, just watch it, because like I said, even if the movie isn't any good, he is amazing. That's fair. But so Carl Reiner, this is where I kind of kind of fudged a little bit. He hasn't directed a ton of movies, and so yeah, so my first choice.

1:02:14 The only thing he didn't do was direct. He created, he wrote, and co starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show. And that show it's on Amazon Prime and it is just as much of a delight as it was when it first aired. Like I love that show so much. You they can hear us, they can't see us, but if they could see us, it's see to me shaking my head because even when I give you the opportunity to break the rule, you find a way to break it in a different way and still be right. Oh Jesus, all right, all right, So the Dick Carl Reiner's work with The Dickan Dyke Show. That's one, Yes, what else?

1:03:05 I worship Steve Martin. I love every single thing he's ever done. And Carl Reiner directed one of my favorites, All of Me, with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. Lily Tomlin, all right, we agree here, We agree here. That's of the four Steve Martin collaborations that Renner did, this is my favorite. All of Me is on my list. I don't know. I love a whole, great, big bunch, but yeah, all of Me. But fantastic. Yeah, okay, all right, what do you have for the third? One? Summer School? I quote that movie like once a week.

1:03:45 Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you. So I'll play by the rules and I'm gonna say the Jerk because it's just. It's so good. Oh my god, how do you? I mean, how do you think about Steve Martin? And don't you don't immediately see him in that stupid white uniform of that hat. You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell people, if you like Reiner's Summer Rental, check out The Jerk. Definitely check out All of Me, and you have to check out my all time favorite Carl Reiner film, which is Summer School. Yeah, we did, Like I said, it his best, it is, it's absolutely his best. That's it's it's it's his best. Uh amber We we recommend seeing Some are rental though, right.

1:04:30 Oh absolutely for sure. I even. It's all it's not streaming anywhere, but you can rent it on Prime but it's renting for three ninety nine, and you can buy it for four ninety nine. Or I did not hesitate to buy a copy because it's second. Or you can buy the Blu ray for like ten bucks. It is, and it has an audio commentary with who well no, no disrespect to the guy. It's one of those. Because I got excited, I was like, wait, a Carl Renner audio or John cant Like. I got super like I would have taken a Joey Lawrence audio commentary, but we we got you get a it's it's a film historian someone something. No, no, no, it's not. Yeah, I mean it's not like a like a like a film like like not a film critic that you would know like if I was like, oh I got I got lit, I lit up, I was like, oh audio commentary and I clicked that. I was like audio commentary featuring film historian John J. Smith. I don't know I'm making that.

1:05:34 I was like, who, But you know, I thought, I'm gonna, I'm gonna check it out. You know, next time I want watch Summer Rental, I'm gonna. You know, the the Blu ray didn't arrive in time, you know, to help me to let me watch it before we did this this pod. But I was like, I'm still gonna watch it. Yeah, it's it's worth It's worth the watch, it's worth checking out. You're never say it's worth oningh Amber. Amber is the voice of reason when she says, there's no such thing as a bad John Candy Now movies, so not at all. Get all the candy you can get. Listeners, What do you think of Carl Renner's Summer Rental? Have you seen this one? Is it one of your favorite John candyfilms? You can let us know on social media. You'll find us on Facebook, Instagram, and x You can check out a film buy podcast dot com for all of our episodes streaming free, except for the exclusive stuff on Patreon Amber, which we'll get to in just a minute. Here, you can write to us at a Film By podcast at gmail dot com with your questions, comments and concerns. We might just read that response on the show, and if we do, we will definitely send you some a film by swag. Top of the hour, Amber, we did mention several of us here at a Film Buy are heading off on our own family vacations this summer, so next week we'll be running our first car Runner episode. We talked about his nineteen eighty seven film Summer School, which Amber and I just told you is his best, so definitely check that out. And then we will take you back to season one where Brad and I covered one

1:07:04 of my favorite summer movies, Joel Schumacher's Falling Down. Our ongoing Star Trek series, Phaser Set the Stun, will welcome one of you the listeners onto the bridge on the next episode. Jason Coslet will being aboard to discuss Star Trek into Darkness with our crew and our Patreon subscribers. Just got access to our latest ten for two episode about No Country for Old Men. Well, we've got two more exclusive episodes dropping this month. We'll do a staff picks episode with David Burns. Amber absolutely loved your staff Picks episode that was so much fun. So it was wait a great time, can't wait. I can't wait for you to see I kind of got an idea of what Dave's picking for his five and man, that's gonna be a fun conversation.

1:07:54 Oh, I can't wait to hear it. Yeah. And then our limited series, A Film at fifty is celebrating the fifty anniversary of Jaws. You are only gonna find this on the Patreon Amber, so head over to www dot patreon dot com Slash a film by podcast. You can sign up for as little as three dollars a month, or you can try a seven day free trial. You can get in there. If you're tech savvy, you can get in there. You can just download all of them and get right out. You know, I might not even know you were there. We'll see amber. Is that enough to keep everyone entertained until we come back in July?

1:08:34 Do you think? I think? So? There's a plethora. Yeah, love Patreon. Every week every Saturday, you got something, Yep, you know we got we got you know, phasers are still phasing. We got some fun classic episodes we'll thought you Yeah. So yeah, yeah, you want to go lay out by the pool or by the beach. We got something for your for you to stream until then, all of you listening to the show, following us on social media, and subscribing to our Patreon, we thank you and we hope you are going to have an awesome summer.

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