Pod Insights New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce Is Home Alone a Top 5 Christmas Movie? ft. Kylie Kelce | New Heights Film Club About this episode On this edition of New Heights Film Club, we are joined by Kylie Kelce to review the 1990 Christmas classing "Home Alone." The Kelces debate if this is a top 5 Christmas movie of all time, if Peter McCallister is the worst movie dad of all time, and who is the "Kevin" of the Kelce family.
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1:31 Speaker 03 That's right. This thing is stacked. Seven pools, more places to eat than you can even count. I mean, they have something for everybody.
1:40 Travis Kelce? Like, bring the kids, bring mom and dad, shoot, bring the whole crew. Everybody's got a spot. That's what makes it special.
1:47 Speaker 03 And the entertainment? Latin music, ice skating, full-on Broadway shows. It's pretty amazing. Pretty much everything you want in one place. Oh, and did I mention there's a water park?
1:57 Travis Kelce? You didn't, and that's, that'd be the kicker for me.
1:59 Speaker 03 I love a water park.
2:00 Travis Kelce? But the crazy one? Crown's Edge, a ropes course off the side of the ship, not for the faint of heart, brother.
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2:40 Speaker 04 The hell?
2:42 Speaker 03 It wouldn't have been as Christmasy.
2:48 Travis Kelce? Welcome back to another edition of New Heights Film Club where your host, I'm Travis Kelce. This is my brother, Jason Kelce, the smoothest guys you know, the guys that watch movies very, very closely and critique and, and then give you good, subscribe on YouTube, one plus wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with one S. Jason, why don't you tell the people what exactly we have for this episode?
3:18 Speaker 03 Coming up on this film club, we are joined by Kylie Kelsey to revisit this 1990 Christmas classic, Home Alone.
3:26 Travis Kelce? Ooh, it's a good one. It's a good one.
3:28 Speaker 03 Let's check it out right now.
3:29 Travis Kelce? Let's hear it.
3:31 Speaker 03 That's right. We're going to do a little Christmas New Heights Film Club edition and the, uh, the film that you guys chose for us to review is none other than the Christmas classic, Home Alone, 1990. This movie came out in 1990?
3:46 Travis Kelce? It was in 1990. I was surprised by that too.
3:48 Speaker 04 Wow. It's old.
3:49 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
3:50 Speaker 04 Older than I thought it was.
3:51 Speaker 03 I don't, I, I feel like I saw it when it was like brand new, but I was only three years old. I doubt I did.
3:56 Travis Kelce? I think it, no, I think Home Alone Two was the one that we were like, yeah. When was that? You're looking it up?
4:05 Speaker 03 No, I'm not looking up anything.
4:06 Travis Kelce? Home Alone Two was, uh, nope, it was 92. So no, we, we still were pretty young. Um, yeah. Either way, definitely thought it was like more mid to late nineties because we were, uh, we were kids when, uh, when we first were watching it, but.
4:23 Speaker 03 Yeah.
4:23 Travis Kelce? Yeah. Still a, still a classic though.
4:26 Speaker 03 When did you see the movie? You weren't.
4:29 Speaker 04 I wasn't.
4:29 Speaker 03 You weren't even born.
4:32 Speaker 04 Yeah, look at me, so young.
4:34 Travis Kelce? So young.
4:36 Speaker 04 Um, I probably saw it, uh, I saw it sometime in the nineties. I know that.
4:40 Speaker 03 Okay.
4:41 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
4:42 Speaker 03 I mean, that narrows it down.
4:43 Speaker 04 So before I was eight.
4:44 Travis Kelce? It's a good one for the kids. Have the kids seen it?
4:46 Speaker 03 Yeah.
4:46 Speaker 04 The kids have seen it. Ellie calls it Home Alone.
4:49 Travis Kelce? Home Alone.
4:51 Speaker 04 Del go over.
4:52 Travis Kelce? Love that.
4:53 Speaker 03 Benny does not like the slipping scene.
4:55 Speaker 04 She does not.
4:56 Speaker 03 She.
4:57 Speaker 04 Freaks her out big time.
4:58 Speaker 03 Says it.
4:58 Speaker 04 Yep.
4:59 Speaker 03 I don't know why it freaks her out that much.
5:01 Speaker 04 Ellie was asking me about the zip line the other day. Took us a while to figure out what the hell she was talking about. And she was asking me whether or not you can zip line on the power lines.
5:09 Speaker 03 But she didn't say the word zip line.
5:10 Speaker 04 No, she didn't. She said on that rope. And then we had to get to, you know, the guy in Home Alone does it. I'm like, I'm gonna need more context in that. And she's like, you've seen the movie, mom. And I'm like, yeah, a couple of times, but I still don't know what the hell you're talking about.
5:26 Speaker 03 Still making no sense.
5:27 Speaker 04 Yeah. So we got to the bottom of it. She meant zip line.
5:30 Travis Kelce? I will say that when I was a kid, that was one of the like parts of the movie where I was like, Dad, I want that.
5:36 Speaker 03 For sure.
5:36 Speaker 04 You can zip line out of the house.
5:38 Travis Kelce? That's what I want. Out of my window. I don't even need, they don't even need to see me downstairs.
5:43 Speaker 04 No.
5:44 Speaker 03 I can go right to my tree house. I wanted a tree house. I mean, the whole thing, it was just.
5:48 Travis Kelce? Yeah. I will say this, when that, when the first scene hits after like the, like.
5:54 Speaker 03 When that music starts cramp, cramping.
6:00 Speaker 03 Yep.
6:02 Travis Kelce? It is so magical. It's just like, it like lifts me and I like start floating.
6:08 Speaker 03 Yeah. The score is fantastic. It's a very well made film.
6:12 Travis Kelce? I'm glad it was the first Christmas movie I watched this year because it really did make me be like, oh, wow, it is, this is Christmas. It is Christmas. Christmas is happening. And we're here. We finally made it to December and that is, uh, the magical season is upon us.
6:26 Speaker 03 Well, let's start recapping the movie. Let's do this. Okay.
6:28 Speaker 04 Oh, gosh.
6:28 Speaker 03 Um, how does it hold up?
6:30 Travis Kelce? Oh, it's still cracking.
6:31 Speaker 04 Very well.
6:31 Speaker 03 It's still incredible.
6:32 Travis Kelce? Still good.
6:33 Speaker 03 There's a few things that are starting to get dated. There's a few things that are starting to get dated, but because it's a nostalgic movie that takes place in a time, it's a period specific film now. Uh, I think it's sold so.
6:43 Travis Kelce? Yeah. Teachers, kids can't trust cops.
6:47 Speaker 03 Well, can't trust anybody.
6:50 Travis Kelce? Crooked cops. Yeah. You can, you can't trust cops, but you can trust the creepy man across the street.
6:56 Speaker 04 Man with the shovel.
6:57 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
7:00 Speaker 03 He just looks at you awkwardly.
7:02 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
7:02 Speaker 03 Have you ever wished for your family to disappear? For sure.
7:09 Speaker 04 Who are you talking about when you were growing up or right now?
7:12 Speaker 03 All the above.
7:17 Travis Kelce? Maybe not wish for it, but definitely like thought of a life where it wasn't the reality. And then was like, all right, whatever. It's not ever going to happen.
7:29 Speaker 04 It's not even worth wishing.
7:31 Travis Kelce? It's not even worth. I only get a few wishes. The ones that I really want to come true. Yeah.
7:36 Speaker 03 Did you guys ever run away from home?
7:38 Speaker 04 No.
7:39 Travis Kelce? I definitely did.
7:40 Speaker 03 Yeah, me too.
7:41 Travis Kelce? I definitely ran away.
7:42 Speaker 04 I might have packed a bag, but I was such a rule follower. I was like, I can't run away.
7:47 Travis Kelce? I think I like grabbed a bag of chips and threw it in a backpack and like a few toys and then fucking got down the street and just like hid in the bushes.
7:54 Speaker 04 I do think that there should be a trend on social media of what was packed in a kid's runaway bag and not grownups recounting it. I'm talking about when a grownup takes a picture of a kid's runaway bag. I think that that would be, because you know, it's going to be, it's going to be three Legos. Right?
8:16 Speaker 03 Juice box.
8:17 Speaker 04 A stuffy, a single juice box probably already drank and maybe a half a snack.
8:25 Speaker 04 Done.
8:26 Speaker 03 Yeah, I didn't. You guys are ahead of me. I never, I didn't even pack a bag. I just walked. Fuck you guys. And I walked out the door and I started walking.
8:32 Speaker 04 Ran away the same way he goes to Vegas.
8:35 Travis Kelce? Just, I know where I'm going. It has everything I need.
8:40 Speaker 03 I got to the stop sign. I said, I don't know where I'm going.
8:44 Speaker 04 And I don't know how to get home.
8:45 Travis Kelce? Friend's house?
8:46 Speaker 04 He doesn't know how to get there, Trav.
8:48 Speaker 03 It was, I was not good at that.
8:50 Travis Kelce? Aimless. Jason, yeah. Everyone was terrified of Jason running away because.
8:55 Speaker 04 Cause he'd never make it home.
8:58 Travis Kelce? We would really have to search for him.
9:00 Speaker 03 I'll let you answer this, Trav. Who was the Kevin and who was the Buzz in the Kelsey household?
9:05 Travis Kelce? I think it's, I think it's going to stand true no matter what household it is. The older siblings.
9:10 Speaker 03 Is Buzz.
9:11 Travis Kelce? Versus the younger siblings. Cause it's just, I mean, it is what it is. The older siblings always, you know, have fun with picking on the younger ones and the younger ones always wish that they were older and. Like had more responsibility so they would stop getting treated like they were irresponsible.
9:33 Speaker 03 So you you identified as Kevin.
9:36 Travis Kelce? Yes, 100%. I always watched the movie thinking I was Kevin.
9:42 Speaker 03 I never watched it and I like saw myself as Kevin. I liked Kevin. I liked the movie, but I never was.
9:52 Speaker 04 Jay, I don't know that you're a planner like Kevin.
9:55 Speaker 03 The Odyssey, the Rube Goldberg system that he implemented is.
10:00 Travis Kelce? The map, the the entire map that he had that he like where.
10:05 Speaker 03 I mean, second office coordinator, he should be an office coordinator.
10:07 Travis Kelce? Who is fucking brilliant. I was like, holy shit. I didn't know. I didn't. I didn't even remember that from like the first like 30 times I watched the movie. I saw that map and I was like, whoa.
10:17 Speaker 03 Wow, this kid.
10:19 Travis Kelce? Kevin's gonna be something.
10:20 Speaker 03 Dialed. Yeah, exactly.
10:22 Speaker 04 Kevin's going somewhere.
10:23 Travis Kelce? He's going somewhere for sure.
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13:56 Speaker 04 Are there people who haven't seen Home?
13:58 Speaker 03 Living under a rock since the 90s.
13:59 Travis Kelce? I don't think I've ever met anybody that hasn't seen Home Alone.
14:03 Speaker 03 I mean, there's some young people that have probably not seen it, if we're being honest. It is made in the 90s. There are people that surprisingly don't know anything about the 90s that I frequently encounter. So I, I think they're out there. That's sad for them. All right. Recap of the movie. There is a family, the McAllisters, who are vacationing over the holidays to France. Not just, not just mom, dad and the kids, but
14:29 Travis Kelce? Going to business with family over there.
14:31 Speaker 03 Big family vacation, going over to France for Christmas. And as they are getting ready, there is also a group of burglars, this is a very well off area, who have decided to try and stake out a neighborhood to find out which families are leaving for the holidays and which homes might be good ones to rob. And when the family is getting ready to leave the night before, power outage, so their alarm clocks don't go off on time. The family has to rush out the door in the morning because they're running late to the, to the airport. And in this rush, they forget one of their sons. They forget Kevin McAllister.
15:09 Speaker 03 He's in the attic, up in the attic, asleep. They get to the airport. They think they got everybody. They take off for France. And mom doesn't realize till she's halfway over the ocean that poor old Kevin is still in the mean streets of Chicago. Kevin wakes up, where's my family? Has no idea. All of a sudden.
15:30 Travis Kelce? Well, he wished for his family to never
15:32 Speaker 03 Right. I didn't want to, yeah, I guess that is an important part. He did wish. So he, at first he thinks that he actually His Christmas wish came true. Santa Claus had granted him his Christmas wish. And then he realizes the predicament he's in and that he's a child and he can't fend for himself. And he starts to panic and all of these things happen where he's fearful and whatnot. And I guess in order to say the plot, these burglars that have been casing out the neighborhood know that the McAllisters are leaving. So they go back to this neighborhood to burglarize a bunch of different homes. They call themselves the Wet Bandits. And
16:07 Travis Kelce? That's our thing. It's so good.
16:10 Speaker 03 In the process of burglarizing, burglarizing these homes, Kevin notices one of the burglars who was in his house. And perhaps the worst idea ever for a burglar to go expose your face to a bunch of people before you're out their home, uh, before you've done it. Just seems like a very bad
16:25 Travis Kelce? The Wet Bandits were too good.
16:28 Speaker 03 Hey, let's go rob all these homes. Hey, first, let's go show up at their house and show our face. And then when they come back like, hey, the cops were coming around the neighborhood earlier this week. No, we weren't. We had a cop in our house. We didn't know. No cop was in that neighborhood that night.
16:41 Travis Kelce? Yeah, it's a cop with a gold tooth.
16:43 Speaker 03 Anyways, yeah. Anyways, Kevin notices this burglar and he realizes that he's in trouble. So instead of having a security system like you would expect, a very wealthy family of the McAllisters.
16:56 Travis Kelce? Nineties.
16:57 Speaker 03 Nineteen ninety? Okay, they still had security systems in the nineties.
17:01 Travis Kelce? One thousand percent they did. One thousand percent. But nice neighborhoods. Yeah.
17:04 Speaker 03 Anyways, McAllisters, they're all gone. Kevin's by himself. Wet Bandits are coming in. Kevin has to try and figure out a way to deter them. He does a great job of utilizing light systems and all the typical things, but eventually the Wet Bandits realize he's on his own. He knows that they know that he's on his own. So he's got to think smart. So he decides to set up a series of Rube Goldberg events throughout his entire house to inflict damage, harm, and slow these burglars down.
17:33 Speaker 03 He's not calling the cops. What? Because the power lines, the kind of phone lines don't work in this ridiculous made up scenario? Is that what's happening?
17:39 Travis Kelce? Forget. I don't think he ever thought to call the cops. I think he just like took it upon himself to defend himself.
17:46 Speaker 03 This whole fucking. Okay. So yeah, I want to get to the end of this so we can get back to the absurdity of this plot. Anyways, in epic fashion, Kevin gets the better of the Wet Bandits time and time again. Joe Pesci and god damn it, what's the other actor?
18:00 Travis Kelce? I remember.
18:01 Speaker 03 It's not Randy Quaid. What's the fuck? He's very good.
18:04 Travis Kelce? Daniel Stern.
18:05 Speaker 03 Daniel Stern. What are the two names in the, uh? Fuck.
18:09 Travis Kelce? Harry and Marv.
18:10 Speaker 03 Harry and Marv. Thank you. Marv is a Daniel Stern. All right. Harry and Marv, they try to get into the McAllisters' house. Kevin McAllister does a great job of setting up all these booby traps. They can't get in. They're trying to get in. Eventually they get in, then they get up to the attic, then he ziplines out of the attic. It's a whole thing. Have no point of they robbing them. They're just trying to apparently get Kevin and kidnap him or something like that.
18:38 Travis Kelce? They just say, fuck this. This kid is ruining our day. We're about to get after this motherfucker.
18:45 Speaker 03 And it, uh, it all ends with the neighbor down the street saving the day and the Wet Bandits being caught and Kevin being reunited with his family, safe and sound. Uh, where do we want to start off with this?
18:58 Travis Kelce? I want to start off with, we've kind of mentioned earlier that, that I always thought I was Kevin. Do you guys now watch that movie as if you're the parents?
19:11 Speaker 03 I don't think.
19:11 Travis Kelce? Do you put yourself in?
19:14 Speaker 03 This might be the most unrelatable parents I've ever seen in a Christmas movie. I mean, there's just, it's blatantly, I mean, listen, everybody goes to like, like you leave with one, without one of your kids at some point. I feel like that's like a, a very standard thing. You should not feel shame for that necessarily. Maybe you forget about it long enough to take off an airplane. Yeah, probably should feel some shame there. But who the fuck, like, I just don't understand how you can't call somebody to go get this fucking kid like there's.
19:46 Travis Kelce? There wasn't cell phones back then, Jason.
19:48 Speaker 03 Ridiculous premise that this one neighborhood is out of phone activity. You could call the cops, they have ways.
19:56 Travis Kelce? They called the cops.
19:58 Speaker 03 No, they.
19:58 Speaker 04 She did call.
19:59 Speaker 03 She called the cops in like that area.
20:01 Speaker 04 No, she called the cops in her neighborhood.
20:04 Speaker 03 Why are we calling, if they aren't helping, I'm calling other cops, I'm calling family members that are still there. They're holding, I'm calling friends.
20:11 Speaker 04 That would totally ruin the plot of the movie.
20:14 Speaker 03 There is precisely zero percent chance that I am just waiting a couple of days before I can fly back to Chicago to see what happens with Kevin.
20:25 Travis Kelce? It wasn't, she got back in like a day and a half.
20:28 Speaker 03 I don't, there's no scenario where you wouldn't be able to get somebody like anybody who got that call. Anybody who got the call said, hey, I'm in the airport, I'm on an airplane going to France, I'm in France. I left my kid, could you go do that? If it was like two hours away, I would drive to go get a kid out from being by them. So like this is just a. It's the dumbest thing I've ever.
20:51 Travis Kelce? You only get so many calls at the airport, Jason.
20:54 Speaker 04 It's like jail. Everybody knows that.
20:56 Travis Kelce? That's the nostalgia of the nineties, though, is that there is like that, like it sounds so easy to just pick up your cell phone right now and just call everyone in that area and find it.
21:05 Speaker 03 I'm not letting, I am not letting you guys act like it is not easy.
21:09 Travis Kelce? That easy.
21:11 Speaker 03 It was that easy. Everybody had landlines and anybody in the nineties could have received a phone call. This isn't the fucking thirties where you had to go to the operator and do it though. People knew people's numbers.
21:24 Speaker 04 Yeah.
21:24 Speaker 03 I could have called Aunt Judy, who would have drove 40 minutes across town.
21:28 Travis Kelce? Jay, all their family, all their family went with them to France.
21:32 Speaker 03 I could have called Steve Bogus to come pick you up. I could have called fucking.
21:37 Travis Kelce? I will say this, the dad in this movie.
21:40 Speaker 04 Doesn't give a fuck.
21:40 Travis Kelce? Was very disinterested in Marty Gavin. He was like, all right, sweetie, you're gonna try me. That says there's no flights for another three days. Oh, you're gonna keep fucking fighting uphill? Battle right now?
21:53 Speaker 03 He's lost. Give it up.
21:57 Travis Kelce? He's done. It's over.
21:59 Speaker 03 He'll figure it out.
22:00 Travis Kelce? We got the whole other family to be.
22:03 Speaker 03 We can't ruin everyone's vacation.
22:10 Speaker 03 It's so true. God damn, that's a great.
22:12 Travis Kelce? Forgot how easy it was to get on a plane with like a ticket, like you didn't need like they, she just handed this entire pile of tickets to the flight attendant. It was like, yeah, this is all of us. Like, all right, cool. Go on up.
22:26 Speaker 03 Yeah, all right.
22:27 Travis Kelce? Good luck. Didn't even count the, how many tickets they had and how many people they had. Yeah. I was like, oh, nice. We were looking for you.
22:37 Speaker 04 It's not good. It's, I do think they did their best to explain away as much as they possibly could by.
22:43 Speaker 03 That a child would be home alone?
22:44 Speaker 04 No, by saying that all of their extended family, like every single person in their family was going on the ship.
22:50 Speaker 03 We, why are we acting like we don't have phone numbers to people that aren't immediately our fan? This guy worked at some fucking business. Like you could have called a coworker. Like there's no way there's nobody to get a hold of.
23:00 Speaker 04 He actually didn't give a shit.
23:02 Travis Kelce? Yeah, he really is like, yeah.
23:04 Speaker 04 That's that. He's like, are we getting Chris
23:08 Speaker 03 The only way this would have made sense is if, is if the plane crashed upon taking off so that they never knew and everyone just died. That would have made sense that he was left alone for a little bit.
23:21 Speaker 04 The hell.
23:22 Speaker 03 It wouldn't have been as Christmasy.
23:25 Speaker 04 That's so messed up.
23:28 Speaker 03 All right. So, yep.
23:30 Speaker 03 Poor, poor banditing to go and show your face to the place you're about to rob before you go in there. Just have like somebody else that's not going to rob it. You just pay somebody else to go in there and scope it out. Yep. Yes. Then you're adding another person to the knowledge that you're doing it. Yeah. But I'm gonna just wait till everybody leaves.
23:49 Speaker 04 Then you gotta split it.
23:50 Speaker 03 Yeah. Um, I'm not a professional bandit. I just felt like that wasn't the wisest of choices.
24:01 Travis Kelce? What was your favorite? What was your guys' favorite part of the movie?
24:04 Speaker 03 I liked the opening the most, to be honest with you.
24:08 Travis Kelce? The chaos of the Christmas.
24:10 Speaker 03 And there's like some. It feels very relatable, like running around, getting pissed off about really stupid things that only like siblings would be pissed off about. Like the one like family member that wets the bed. There's this.
24:26 Speaker 04 Not being enough pizza.
24:27 Speaker 03 Yeah. It just felt, I, it's, and it also like the, the two liter jug of soda and like the paper plate. All of it is just like very reminiscent of my childhood, I feel like, other than the enormously expensive house. Yeah.
24:42 Speaker 04 And the big, and the big family.
24:44 Speaker 03 And the big family. But we already, we were around a lot of people around the holidays, even though it wasn't family, it was friends and we'd go to holiday parties. Yeah.
24:52 Travis Kelce? Yeah. The halls and their holiday party, their New Year's Eve party was always so much fun.
24:58 Speaker 03 That's great.
24:59 Travis Kelce? Yep. Shout out to the halls.
25:00 Speaker 03 What, uh, what was your favorite part?
25:04 Speaker 04 I just, I love the, I love the mayhem. I love the mayhem of him planning how to fuck with them.
25:13 Speaker 03 Yeah.
25:14 Speaker 04 So good.
25:15 Speaker 03 So you're more about the planning than the actual.
25:17 Speaker 04 No, I think the execution, but I do just, you have to, you have to appreciate how much thought and effort went into it. And the fact that it went off without a hitch.
25:27 Travis Kelce? I mean, for things that happened precisely off of like a door opening.
25:32 Speaker 04 Like orchestrated. Yes. Yes. Very well orchestrated. I liked it.
25:37 Speaker 03 Trav, what about you?
25:38 Travis Kelce? I'm gonna go with the scene where he steals the toothbrush, then he runs away from the cops. It's an exciting scene. I think it was a very fun, yes, he flanked. And I think the funny part of that whole thing is that the scene right after that, he immediately feels terrible for, for stealing and he, I'm pretty sure he goes to church.
26:03 Speaker 03 Uh, well, I thought, well, he goes to the church to run away from the wet bandits when he, by the way, very perceptive by Kevin in that moment to see Harry and realize that's the cop that was in my house. And that this is not an actual cop and to like start walking away and then he runs to the church. Does he, he goes into the church before that or after that?
26:27 Speaker 04 He's in the church twice, isn't he?
26:29 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
26:29 Speaker 03 Well, he goes into the church the night before, but then there is a scene where he runs to the church.
26:34 Travis Kelce? I just thought it was so funny that he stole something and then like as he's walking home.
26:39 Speaker 04 Immediately tried to repent.
26:40 Travis Kelce? Immediately like, man, I didn't mean to steal this.
26:44 Speaker 04 He didn't have any other choice.
26:45 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
26:46 Speaker 03 I do gotta say, I, I think it's probably.
26:48 Travis Kelce? I didn't want to run from the cops.
26:51 Speaker 03 I think it's, it's gotta be the best cast Christmas movie of all time. Like, could you think of anybody other than Macaulay Culkin being Kevin? Like the facial expressions, it's.
27:02 Travis Kelce? Yeah, he crushes it.
27:03 Speaker 03 He just did such a great job. Like, I don't know, like the way he talks, he like feels more grown up than what his age is. But he still looks like a child and innocent, but he's got like this great dry sense of humor.
27:18 Travis Kelce? The only one that I know that talked to grownups at that age, like as if they were a grownup was Patrick Bacon.
27:29 Speaker 04 Why'd you guys say that at the exact same time?
27:31 Speaker 03 Cause we've talked about this before.
27:32 Travis Kelce? He has been, he has literally had the same demeanor and like ability to have conversations with grownups since we were like fucking three. He would like bargain with our, our Eastside Kickers coach on like how many laps? Like it was like a discussion, like every like conditioning you had to do five laps.
27:53 Speaker 04 It was a negotiation.
27:54 Travis Kelce? It's like, I don't know. What do you think about three?
28:00 Travis Kelce? Three is good enough, right? I'm running. I mean, we're getting it. We're getting it done, right?
28:07 Travis Kelce? We're gonna be running during practice too, so might as well, you know?
28:11 Speaker 04 That's an interesting skill to have.
28:13 Travis Kelce? Shout out to the Bacons.
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28:46 Travis Kelce? It's time to thank our partner. Who's that? Reese's or Reese's, however you like to call it. I'm pretty sure they would like us to say Reese's. So we're gonna say Reese's and their perfect holiday companion, their Reese's Trees.
29:00 Speaker 03 Oh, they are so good. Nothing says the holiday like Reese's. Perfect peanut butter stuffed chocolate trees. They might be the best holiday candy ever. It's up for debate. Every holiday tradition is better when you add Reese's Trees.
29:14 Travis Kelce? Holiday movies?
29:15 Speaker 03 Yeah. I mean, those go definitely better with Reese's Trees.
29:18 Travis Kelce? Ugly sweater parties?
29:21 Speaker 03 I mean, who doesn't like chocolate stains all over their ugly sweater?
29:24 Travis Kelce? I do skipping the ugly sweater party to watch football in your sweats instead.
29:30 Speaker 03 I mean, that's a no brainer. Of course.
29:33 Travis Kelce? I mean, you throw on that ugly sweater anyways. Yeah. So celebrate the season with peanut butter perfection and be sure to grab Reese's trees today. Jason, why don't you tell them where to get them from?
29:44 Speaker 03 Well, it's found wherever candy is sold. Literally, you can find it everywhere.
29:50 Travis Kelce? I think I called you Jason.
29:52 Speaker 03 Jason, Jason. Thank you to our partner, Gillette.
29:56 Travis Kelce? All right now, Jason, you've been retired for a full year. Uh, let's talk pregame rituals. Do you miss them? Still have them?
30:04 Speaker 03 I kind of have one, I guess, for Monday night countdown. Like I kind of, I go do the, uh, production meeting. Then I kind of iron out what's happening in the rundown. Then I go to the makeup lady, then I go to the hair and, uh, then I go on set.
30:19 Travis Kelce? Just curious to see if you were putting that same game day energy into your, uh, new broadcasting routine. That's all.
30:25 Speaker 03 Well, first and foremost, it includes making sure that this beard is looking real nice, which is finally starting to show some of my grays again. After dying it, I'm getting those natural colors back. Thank you. Thanks so much. Um, but yeah, I have, uh, some, some grooming individuals that make sure it's looking nice and tidy.
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30:55 Speaker 03 Special edition razors have those long lasting Gillette Labs blades and the precision trimmer on the back. It's perfect for cleaning up this guy.
31:04 Travis Kelce? Nice. I hear it's a must have for NFL fans this season and clearly you too.
31:12 Speaker 03 Sold available now on 12 teams, including the Eagles and Chiefs. Get it while you can at Gillette.com slash NFL. Gillette, the best a fan can get. What um, but I think that the cast just because McCully Cogan, Joe Pesci and uh, what is it again? Daniel Stern, Marvin Harry, Catherine O'Hara is the mom, John Candy.
31:36 Speaker 04 Yeah.
31:36 Travis Kelce? John Candy, the polka.
31:38 Speaker 04 Leaving, yeah, leaving out the band as a.
31:41 Speaker 03 He was more invested than her own husband was.
31:45 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
31:47 Speaker 03 Who was better, Marv or Harry? When you brought up best scenes, my favorite scene is really any scene where Marv is screaming. He is fucking fantastic. Like it's just.
32:00 Travis Kelce? He has an electric scream.
32:02 Speaker 03 That's. That's such a talent. Is one of the greatest.
32:06 Speaker 04 Set off the baby monitor.
32:07 Speaker 03 Or I guess he's his, he gets electrocuted. Harry's the one that has the head on fire. When he's getting electrocuted and the whole like.
32:16 Travis Kelce? So good.
32:17 Speaker 04 He's, he also steps on the ornaments. I do think that.
32:20 Speaker 03 Well, they both do, right? Or is it just him?
32:22 Speaker 04 I think it's him. Cause I think Harry's at the door handle.
32:25 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah.
32:27 Speaker 04 The burning door handle?
32:28 Speaker 03 Joe Pesci kills it too. They're both so good. There's good in different ways.
32:33 Speaker 04 It's a great movie.
32:34 Speaker 03 It's got a whole like Lenny and uh, like of mice and men feel with like Marv being the dummy and Joe Pesci being the witty one, but he's really not that smart.
32:44 Travis Kelce? Where are you guys ranking Home Alone as a Christmas movie?
32:47 Speaker 03 Well, we're doing PFF grades, right?
32:50 Travis Kelce? But where, where, where does Home Alone rank?
32:52 Speaker 04 Wait, why does no one, why does no one want to ask who would, who would nail this?
32:57 Speaker 03 Who would nail what?
32:58 Speaker 04 Who would go, who would handle a Home Alone scenario the best out of all of us?
33:03 Speaker 03 Travis, not even a question.
33:04 Travis Kelce? Are you kidding me? I would fucking thrive.
33:06 Speaker 03 And I've always thought Kevin McCallister was in Travis Kelce.
33:09 Speaker 04 You don't even think I have a, you don't even think I have a shot?
33:11 Speaker 03 I mean, it just.
33:15 Speaker 04 Wow.
33:15 Speaker 03 No.
33:16 Travis Kelce? You would have been more planned out.
33:20 Travis Kelce? For sure. My instincts would have been fantastic in situations like this.
33:25 Speaker 04 Guys, they fucked around. I really think I could help them find out.
33:32 Travis Kelce? Nice.
33:33 Speaker 03 Well done. All right. Where's the ranking in everybody's rankings?
33:37 Travis Kelce? I'll go top five. I can't rank like.
33:41 Speaker 03 It's hard to go like one, two, three, four.
33:44 Travis Kelce? And I actually, I think I like Home Alone two more.
33:48 Speaker 04 Really?
33:49 Travis Kelce? I don't.
33:51 Speaker 04 I'm gonna have to go back and watch Home Alone two now.
33:53 Speaker 03 I like Home Alone one definitely the most. Home Alone two is good though. Still has the great same cast.
33:59 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
34:01 Speaker 03 I like the pigeon lady in Home Alone two.
34:03 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
34:04 Speaker 04 She was great. Top five.
34:06 Speaker 03 Just trying to think. I like. Okay. Which movies do I like more than Home Alone?
34:10 Speaker 04 Love Actually.
34:11 Speaker 03 Christmas Vacation.
34:15 Speaker 03 Christmas Story.
34:17 Speaker 04 The Santa Claus.
34:18 Speaker 03 The Grinch.
34:19 Speaker 04 Oh, great one.
34:21 Speaker 03 I'm not putting the Santa Claus above, but I do like the Santa Claus. It's a good movie. I just, I think, I like Home Alone one that.
34:28 Speaker 03 You know which one I really like, which is a newer one, but I watch it every Christmas now is Claws.
34:33 Speaker 04 You do love that one.
34:34 Speaker 03 From Netflix. Great Christmas movie. Kind of like a sucker for the claymation Rudolph.
34:42 Speaker 04 Oh, OJ.
34:44 Speaker 03 I think I like Elf better than Home Alone.
34:50 Travis Kelce? So not top five.
34:51 Speaker 03 I think it's just out of the top five for me.
34:54 Travis Kelce? I'm going, I'm going, I'm putting it in the top five with Grinch, Home Alone two and an elf. I'll probably say those are, those three are probably the only ones I'm taking over it.
35:05 Speaker 04 I think it's either top five. Maybe it's six, but I'm saying like the Santa Claus is up there. The original Grinch, not the original. I'm sorry. The Jim Carrey Grinch.
35:17 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
35:20 Speaker 04 I mean, Love Actually, that's not a surprise to anyone. Don't say anything. Nobody was asking.
35:29 Speaker 04 Um, yeah, I'd say, I'd say it's probably top five, but I think it's like the number five slot.
35:34 Speaker 03 All right, PFF grades, uh, Christmasness. I think this is high in Christmasness. It's all throughout the film. The whole reason this is happening is Christmas. It has, it also has like the, the soundtrack, the, the setting, all of it. Like, it's just very Christmasy.
35:53 Travis Kelce? Yeah. 10. I don't know if it can get more Christmasy, other than The Grinch.
35:59 Speaker 03 Yeah, I mean, it doesn't have like Santa Claus, I guess, or like
36:04 Speaker 04 It has a reference to him.
36:06 Speaker 03 It does, it does. I don't know.
36:07 Travis Kelce? It literally has him going to the church. It has like the Jesus, like, what is it called? In front of the church.
36:15 Speaker 03 The nativity scene.
36:17 Travis Kelce? Yes.
36:17 Speaker 03 Yes. It's not, but it's not like The Grinch or Rudolph or Frosty. Like, it's not like a story that is
36:27 Speaker 04 Directly associated with the concept of Christmas.
36:31 Speaker 03 Yeah, I'm trying to like, think of it. It's, it's not like 10 out of 10 to me, but it's definitely very Christmasy.
36:38 Travis Kelce? All right.
36:38 Speaker 03 One to a hundred.
36:41 Speaker 04 I'd say like 98.
36:43 Speaker 03 I'll go 90, you go 98, you go 100, you want, you want to go 98?
36:47 Travis Kelce? Boom.
36:47 Speaker 03 98.
36:48 Travis Kelce? Acting.
36:50 Speaker 03 Acting. I'll go 100 on this. I don't think there's one piece of bad acting in the whole film.
36:54 Travis Kelce? Directing.
36:56 Speaker 03 Ooh.
36:59 Speaker 03 I'm gonna go another 100.
37:01 Speaker 04 Wow, just giving hundreds away.
37:03 Travis Kelce? Just giving a hundreds out?
37:04 Speaker 03 I'm waiting for, I, listen, I'm
37:07 Travis Kelce? You, you even said yourself that this movie wasn't, is that more plot?
37:12 Speaker 03 I like it, it just
37:14 Speaker 04 Yeah, I think that's more plot. I think that's more plot. He's gonna have a lot of questions. He's gonna take, it's gonna take the hit on the plot.
37:20 Travis Kelce? We can go, we can go.
37:21 Speaker 04 Okay.
37:23 Travis Kelce? If, yeah, 100, fine. Plot, where are we going?
37:27 Speaker 03 Plot, I will go.
37:33 Travis Kelce? It's not a believable plot, but is it a fun plot?
37:36 Speaker 03 It's a fun plot. It's not believable. It's not based on a true story. So I guess it doesn't have to be that believable, but it does have some holes. So I'll go, I'll go 70. I'll go 65, 65.
37:49 Speaker 04 I was gonna say 80 or 85. I think the plot is so 90s.
37:52 Travis Kelce? It's so 90s.
37:53 Speaker 04 It's so 90s and it's delightful that way.
37:56 Speaker 03 What do you mean?
37:56 Speaker 04 It's delightful in that way that it's so 90s.
37:59 Travis Kelce? She's making calls from the airport.
38:01 Speaker 04 Yeah, it's great.
38:02 Travis Kelce? Like, yeah.
38:07 Travis Kelce? I'm going 90.
38:08 Speaker 04 Travis, what's your number?
38:10 Speaker 03 So 80?
38:11 Travis Kelce? 85, nice. Violence, uh, violence?
38:18 Travis Kelce? Why is?
38:20 Speaker 04 Do you guys really enjoy violence that much?
38:23 Travis Kelce? We needed a plot. We needed an extra category.
38:26 Speaker 04 Decent amount of violence.
38:27 Speaker 03 What is the other category? It's usually not violence. What is it? We don't do Christmas.
38:31 Speaker 04 Action? What is it?
38:33 Speaker 03 Acting, directing, plot. Alright.
38:36 Speaker 04 It has, I mean, the violence is high.
38:40 Travis Kelce? It's not violent.
38:41 Speaker 03 It's not violent.
38:43 Speaker 04 It's, it's physical harm.
38:46 Speaker 03 Yeah, but it's not like a violent. It's like a jokey. It's like a three stages.
38:50 Speaker 04 But like, I mean, everybody knows the iron print on the forehead.
38:55 Speaker 03 I'm gonna go, I mean, I just don't know. It's, it's low on violence. High in violence for a Christmas movie, but low in violence.
39:03 Travis Kelce? This is gonna ruin his PFF grade.
39:05 Speaker 04 It really is.
39:08 Speaker 03 What do we, I don't, yeah, can we do a different category than violence?
39:11 Speaker 04 You should do, you should do, you should do, if you're leaning towards like the action part of it, you should do more of like the, the finding out.
39:21 Speaker 03 Action?
39:23 Speaker 04 Yeah, like the action of it. Like when they, with the action, like the meat of it.
39:27 Travis Kelce? It's a high action movie.
39:28 Speaker 04 Him doing the, right?
39:29 Speaker 03 Entertaining, entertaining this?
39:31 Travis Kelce? The action it is, is I give it a 90.
39:34 Speaker 03 Yeah, sounds good.
39:37 Speaker 04 Yeah, that feels good.
39:38 Travis Kelce? There you go.
39:39 Speaker 04 Who's doing the math? Brennan?
39:40 Speaker 03 Yeah, they did the math for us.
39:43 Travis Kelce? They put it in Excel.
39:44 Speaker 03 It's gonna be somewhere around, yeah, 95.
39:46 Speaker 04 Great.
39:48 Speaker 03 It's a rounding here. It's a little bit.
39:50 Travis Kelce? Yeah, they definitely rounded that.
39:51 Speaker 03 Yeah.
39:52 Travis Kelce? No chance. We got an eighty, a ninety eight.
39:54 Speaker 04 He's gonna type more. Look at him. Yep, there you go. Ninety four point six.
39:58 Travis Kelce? That was one of my favorite radio stations growing up. All right now. Well, that does it for our Home Alone, uh, New Heights Holiday Film Club.
40:09 Travis Kelce? Recap right there. Jason, you did a great job on recapping the movie, um, as always.
40:14 Speaker 03 Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.
40:19 Travis Kelce? That was great. You guys go and have the creepiest Christmas ever.
40:29 Speaker 04 Oh, God.
40:31 Speaker 03 And that wraps up another episode of New Heights Film Club. Thank you to Kylie for joining us. Thank you so much. We know that that is a lot for you sometimes. We're, we've also got a full holiday episode with Kylie dropping on Christmas Eve. Make sure you subscribe to New Heights channel on YouTube and follow New Heights channel on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You listen to new episodes of New Heights ad free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
40:56 Travis Kelce? Once again, New Heights is a Wondery show. Please follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with one S. And, uh, thanks to our New Heights production team for being the best team that any teammate could ever ask for. We love you guys and we love you. Ninety two percenters. Appreciate you tuning in.
41:13 Travis Kelce? Unbiased opinion. Home Alone two is better. See you guys next week.
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