RAANAP: Rob and Akiva Home Alone Commentary
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What is the premise of “Rob and Akiva Need a Podcast” and how do they choose today’s topic?
Rob and Akiva need a podcast. And they need your help. Can you make it onto the wheel? Rob and Akiva need a podcast. Count them by yourselves. Your ideas, they'll talk about it till you've got it in your bill. Every weekend, you better attend. You can guess what will be coming up next. Rob and Akiva need a podcast.
Yeah, that's right. Robin and Keith and Nita podcast. It's our special holiday edition where today we're going to be doing some movie commentary. We're going to watch the classic 1990 film Home Alone. And now here's a guy who... Very rarely is ever home alone. It's Uncle Keevy, Akiva Winokur. That's a good point. I feel like... Sometimes you are lucky that Mera is like, okay, I'm going to take the whole family and the kids camping. You're right. Akiva, I know you hate to sleep outside. You stay home by yourself.
I wonder. I might be home alone more... I made my family disappear. Yeah, they'll forget about me and they're in Paris. I... I wonder if I'm home alone more than you, though, because when she takes the crew, she I feel like sometimes she takes the whole crew, you know? Yeah. And
so it's
just me.
The only time I'm really home alone is when it's like during the school day and my wife goes out. That's the only time I'm really ever home alone. Right. So it's a small window. Mm hmm. Used to be home alone a lot before we had kids. Now I'm almost never. Should they do a reboot home alone of its dad that's home by himself?
Oh, yeah. Well, if you're not home, are you home alone? No, right? Like if you're on the road, are you home alone?
Without your family? No, I mean, you are very much, the operative word of home alone is being home. Yeah, what if my wife is- You're just alone if you're not at home. Yeah,
my wife probably hasn't been home alone.
If you're just alone and you're not at home, who are you going to call?
Nobody. Alone. I feel like that's already a movie. We're not going to probably do that one.
Yeah. OK, so that's what we're going to do here today. We're going to start the film. We're just going to vamp here for a couple of minutes to give you a little bit of warm up. We'll take our break and then we'll come back and then do an uninterrupted, uninterrupted commercial free Home Alone movie commentary. Last time out, Akiva, we guessed the Canadians and it was really a hard fought battle.
Yeah, very, very tight game between the two of us. Fun one. Yeah. How's your week going? My week is good.
Why do the hosts keep comparing their own family life to Kevin’s “home‑alone” situation?
You know, it's been Hanukkah. We just counted the fourth night, so we're halfway done. Halftime. Something crazy happened this year. It's the Hanukkah halftime show. It is the Hanukkah halftime show. Kids are spinning like dreidels. If you remember back a couple years ago, we used to do eight nights of presents. You and I? Well, not me and you per se, but in my house, the kids used to get eight presents and now we got so many. Eight crazy nights,
they
say. I did show my son the first Adam Sandler song and he's like, this is boring. But he also didn't get the references. Like he doesn't know. Sure. He doesn't know, you know, the Three Stooges, let alone. OJ Simpson is in there. Like he doesn't know any of those people. Hall of Famer Rod.
I was
going to say Rod Carew. He definitely doesn't know Rod Carew.
I don't know. They know one person
that's even.
Yeah.
Arthur Fonzarelli. No, I don't think. I mean, he knew Adam Sandler. Yeah, but that's about it. Adam Sandler from Big Daddy. I think he thought.
Okay. So you, uh, that I remember there was a time
when you used to do eight nights of presents. And we used to fight with Chester who said, there's no such thing. People don't do presents. Uh, yeah, it was a whole thing. And then last year we cut it to like one big present. And this year night four just came and went and no presents. And the kids haven't even asked. So maybe we were scamming ourselves the whole time. Wow.
Does the 1990 Home Alone film pass the Bechdel test?
They literally haven't even asked for a present yet. They're over it. You could just not do things. Did Hanukkah jump the shark? Maybe Hanukkah presents jumped the shark. Or maybe we got them too much stuff this year that they don't even need.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the premise of “Rob and Akiva Need a Podcast” and how do they choose today’s topic?
0:00–2:42
2
Why do the hosts keep comparing their own family life to Kevin’s “home‑alone” situation?
2:42–4:07
3
Does the 1990 Home Alone film pass the Bechdel test?
4:07–5:24
4
How do Rob and Akiva start the actual Home Alone commentary after the break?
5:24–54:27
5
What do the hosts say about the pizza delivery scene and the remote‑control gag?
54:27–1:00:50
6
Why do the hosts keep bringing up the word “keister” and how does the conversation shift to old‑school slang?
1:00:50–1:08:38
7
What are the fan theories about the “shovel guy” (Marley) and the idea that Kevin might be a time‑traveler?
1:08:38–1:28:51
8
How do the hosts wrap up the episode, share holiday safety tips, and preview what’s coming next?
1:28:51–1:51:59