Hey, everybody. Welcome to a very special holiday edition of the Muckrake

podcast Weekender edition. How you doing, Nick?

You know, I love this time of year. I got to tell you, love the music.

There are some movies out there that deal with Christmas that I really, really enjoy and like

to watch whenever I get a chance during this time. So I'm feeling pretty good.

Well, we're going to focus today. We're going to break down the 1990 movie, the McCauley-Colkin

vehicle, Home Alone. We're going to talk about neoliberalism. We're going to talk about a lack of faith, the importance and cult of property. But before we do, I want to point something out, Nick. You had never seen this before. I had, you know, I was, I'm looking at up right now. I want to see exactly when

it was released because I was a senior in high school. I know I'm old, but let's see, it was released. I have to assume seniors in high school were not lining up at the multiplex to see home alone. Yeah, so here's what it was. November 16th, 1990, I had just gotten the college, you know, in September of that year. So we're not

seeing movies. I'm too busy being in college. So that explains a real, because, listen, Hughes, growing up in Chicago, yes, it's, you'll see every movie. And if you worked in movies and films like I did, like you'd work on those films after, like, he would be, it was a whole ecosystem that he created in Chicago.

But yeah, I'd never, never seen it.

I had never, I guess, be it was a whole ecosystem that he created in Chicago.

But yeah, I'd never, never seen it.

I had never, I guess, had a desire to see it.

I don't know.

I mean, certainly we're all familiar with the famous shots of, you know, violence to people on stairwells and faces after, after shave.

But yeah, I had never seen it. And man was an experience it's a romp is what it is yeah I guess so it was yeah it's not good right it's got moments I will

say and and we'll get into of course when we do these deep dives, because Nick and I,

we love movies, we dissect movies, we get deep into them. We're going to talk not only about the politics of it, but also the story, the structure, how it's carried out. I will say, and real fast, I want to point out, this was back in the day one of the heavily in rotation movies for me.

Like this was a Christmas thing that I watched.

Back in the day, of the heavily in rotation movies for me like this was a

christmas thing that i watched back in the day i don't know if you have nostalgia for this nick the

old bHS boxes that very particular type of cardboard glossy kind of look at him um i i in my mind's eye

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