Trading Places Episode# 846
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd discuss Trading Places for “Christmas movies that might not be Christmas movies” month. John Landis’ 1983 comedy-satire dropped the same year as Return of the Jedi, Flashdance, WarGames, and Risky Business, yet still became one of the biggest hits of the year. With Dan Aykroyd, a very young Eddie Murphy (only 21!), Jamie Lee Curtis, and a plot that dives deep into class and privilege, they discuss what the movie was saying about wealth, meritocracy, and who gets access, along with the complicated, messy, and very 80s parts that would never make it past a studio today.
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| 0:00.0 | Sorry about that, man. |
| 0:03.0 | Stop! |
| 0:04.0 | See! |
| 0:05.0 | He's a help! |
| 0:06.0 | He don't want your bag, man! |
| 0:08.0 | He's getting away! |
| 0:09.0 | I'll bet that that man could run our company as well as Winthrop. |
| 0:14.0 | This is outrageous! I haven't done anything wrong! |
| 0:17.0 | I'm not a thief! |
| 0:18.0 | We want to help you, Mr. Valentine, with a home of your own. And that was a fake, right? We paid $35,000 for it. An employment with our company. What's going to happen to me? Is that good? I think that's good. Get in. There's your favorite character. Ophelia. You have me cut off your favorite character in the movie. |
| 0:39.3 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:39.8 | My name's Todd. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm with Zen Pop. |
| 0:41.2 | This is Kathy. |
| 0:42.3 | We are in the second of, I think, a four-week run of Christmas-slash-non-Christmas movies. |
| 0:48.9 | Christmas movies that might not be Christmas movies. |
| 0:51.4 | That's right. |
| 0:51.8 | So last week was die-hard. |
| 0:53.2 | This week is trading places. |
| 0:55.0 | What's next week? Next week is either. I think it's love actually or it is family stone, |
| 1:02.8 | family stone, one or the other, whichever one we get to watch. But we're going to, those are the four |
| 1:07.0 | movies we're doing. Die hard, trading places, family stone, love actually. I just want to make sure that there's not five Tuesdays in five Tuesdays. I know. I saw that. |
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