Join the Magnificently Huge Podcast for a look back at the semi-forgotten 80’s action-buddy-road-comedy, Midnight Run!  Robert DeNiro stars in his first mainstream comedy, as a bounty hunter taking a mob accountant (Charles Grodin in a genius deadpan signature role) cross-country in a race against the Feds, the Mob and time itself! It’s an almost-classic that has not aged well, but it is still a solid piece of entertainment held together solely by the fun chemistry of the two leads. Directed by Martin Brest in his follow-up to Beverly Hills Cop, and featuring a who’s-who of character actors in supporting roles, Midnight Run tries its best to entertain and occasionally succeeds. Unfortunately, it opened the same week as Die Hard and got buried at the box office. More of an 80’s artifact now than anything, this fun popcorner is a solid second-string film from the era. And that’s fine, just like this movie.

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 4:30 - In The Heights (2021)
 | 14:20 - The Cause of the Champlain Condo Towers collapse: https://youtu.be/PEPyE2h6P4k
 | 21:00 - Summer of Soul (2021)
 | 27:20 - Opening Night (2016)
 | 30:30 - Hard Ticket To Hawaii (1987)
 | 39:35 - Midnight Run (1988)
 
 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Danny Elfman - Main Titles - Midnight Run
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the cast of In The Heights - In The Heights
 | Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Melissa Barrera, Leslie Grace, Olga Merediz and the cast of In The Heights - Blackout - In The Heights
 | The Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit
 | Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
 | JC Chasez - One Hit Wonderland - Opening Night
 | Gary Stockdale - Hard Ticket To Hawaii
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Danny Elfman - J.W. Gets a Plan - Midnight Run
 | Mosley & The B-Men - Try To Believe

Episode 190 - Midnight Run

This week, we talk all about covers - those great songs made better or worse by someone else performing them. From punker bands that speed them up, to choral groups that slow them way down, covers are music's way of paying tribute to its favorite past musicians - or riding their coat tails.

Check out this YouTube playlist of all these awesome covers and more: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs…d58qv1-uXtiJJxB7R

Who we're covering - oh! Puns! Woo hoo!

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Neil Diamond - Red Red Wine
Dionne Warwick - (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me
Naked Eyes - (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me
Bananarama - Venus
Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool
Katrina and the Waves - Going Down To Liverpool
Devo - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Phyllis Diller - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
William Shatner - Mr Tambourine Man
William Shatner - Common People
Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His Song
Engelbert Humperdinck - Killing Me Softly
Erasure - Lay All Your Love On Me
ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me
Information Society - Lay All Your Love On Me
Erasure - S.O.S.
Men Without Hats - S.O.S.
Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep - Sos (Mamma Mia! Original Motion Picture Sountrack)
Russell Crowe - Stars (Les Miserables)
Red Kross - Dancing Queen
Erasure - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
Gary Jules - Mad World
Lorde - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Think Up Anger ft Malia J - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nouela - Black Hole Sun
Scala & Kolacny Brothers - California Dreamin’
Scala Choir - Creep
Postmodern Jukebox - Creep
Postmodern Jukebox - Seven Nation Army
Richard Cheese - Smack My Bitch Up
Richard Cheese - Creep
The BossHoss - Word Up
Tom T-Bone Stankus - Purple Rain
Hayseed Dixie - Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)
Powerman 5000 - Relax
Blondie - Relax
Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck
Aerosmith - Come Together
Steve Martin - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
Orgy - Blue Monday
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – Bad Reputation
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – I Love Rock & Roll
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – ACDC
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – MCA
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – Do You Wanna Touch Me
Gary Glitter – Rock and Roll, Pt. 2
The Timelords - Doctorin’ The Tardis
Age of Chance – Kiss
Age of Chance – Disco Inferno
Age of Chance – We Got Trouble
Cake – War Pigs
Orkestra Obsolete – Blue Monday
Apocalyptica – One
Perpetuum Jazzile – Africa
Brown Derbies – In Your Eyes
Brown Derbies – Karma Police
Tom Waits – Brother Can You Spare A Dime
The Con Men – Brother Can You Spare A Dime
Ben Folds – Bitches Ain’t Shit
Dynamite Hack – Boyz in the Hood
The Gourds – Gin and Juice
Weezer – Life’s What You Make It
Hannah Montana – Life’s What You Make It
Buddy Rich – Norwegian Wood
Type O Negative - Summer Breeze
Primal Scream - Some Velvet Morning
Dickies - Nights in White Satin
Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas
Flaming lips - Knives Out

0:00 Intros and Eric’s connection dropping
3:00 Eric loves driving an EV
6:10 Fresh Shit
8:35 Canada’s Worst Handyman
10:30 Free Fire
12:33 Spider-Man: Homecoming
17:35 Arrival
21:27 Covers intro
24:20 Covers where artists take ownership of a song
28:32 Covers that are very different from the original
33:50 ABBA
40:37 Slow, sad versions of older pop songs
43:10 Creep
46:15 Covers made funny by changing style
52:00 Covers that add nothing to the original
54:52 Marilyn Manson
55:50 Joan Jett
58:18 Pedophiles / Gary Glitter
1:00:54 Age of Chance
1:03:10 Cake
1:03:37 Eric cuts out again
1:05:30 Unusual Instruments
1:07:08 A Cappella covers
1:09:46 Brother Can You Spare A Dime
1:11:23 Even more about owning it and/or cultural appropriation
1:17:10 Eric’s top 5 covers

RERUN - Episode 26 - Cover Songs

Aliens - everybody talks about them, but nobody does anything about them. Once an Alien: Resurrection or Alien: Covenant comes rolling around, people are shocked they suck. Why? Because the only Alien movie anyone needs is 1986’s James Cameron classic, “Aliens.” This is what every Alien movie since has tried to be better than, and has failed at miserably. So let’s pick apart some Aliens. Try not to get any acid blood on your shirt, it’ll burn away your organs.

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 3:55 - Them (Amazon)
 | 7:05 - Supertramp
 | 10:00 - Chuck (NBC)
 | 15:00 - Metroid Dread (Nintendo)
 | 16:45 - Forza Horizon 5 (Microsoft)
 | 21:00 - Mean Girls (Musical, Touring)
 | 24:36 - Aliens (1986) and the other, lessor Alien movies

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | James Horner - Main Title - Aliens
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Mark Korven - Main Title - Them
 | Supertramp - The Logical Song
 | Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home
 | Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket
 | Metroid Dread Title Theme
 | Sofi Tukker - Freak
 | Ashley Park - What’s Wrong With Me? - Mean Girls
 | Kate Rockwell - Sexy - Mean Girls
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Clips from Aliens (1986)
 | Teaser Trailer for Alien 3
 | James Horner Bishop’s Countdown - Aliens

Episode 206 - Aliens vs all the other “Aliens”

The first Harry Potter movie is now 20 years old!  Which makes all you kiddoes who grew up with the series in the naughty aughties pretty much middle-age now.  So fire up your patronus charm to scare away those Dementors, because here’s our old-guy take on The Boy Who Lived (and his coterie of witches and wizards).  It is arguably the biggest and most fantastical film franchise that made kids want to read books again, ever. And while we aren’t crazy fanboy Potter-heads, we still managed to enjoy it and have opinions both simple and complicated.  Just remember, it’s levi-OH-sa, not levi-oh-SAH, ya Muggle.

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 4:40 - The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
 | 12:35 - Station Eleven
 | 14:15 - Letterkenny
 | 16:25 - The Witcher (Netflix, 2022)
 | 18:15 - Gangster Squad (2013)
 | 24:20 - Auralnauts Star Wars Saga: Banana Time
 | 25:10 - Doctor Who: Flux (2021)
 | 29:10 - Peacemaker (2022)
 | 31:22 - Harry Potter

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | John Williams - Hedwig’s Theme - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Jessica Chastain - Jesus Keeps Takin’ Me Higher & Higher
 | Clip from “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” (2021)
 | Dan Romer - Doctor Eleven - Station Eleven
 | Letterkenny Theme Song
 | Joey Batey - Toss A Coin To Your Witcher
 | Don Raye & Gene de Paul - Mr. Five By Five
 | Auralnauts - Banana Time
 | Doctor Who Series 13 title music
 | Wig Wam - Do You Wanna Taste It - Theme from Peacemaker
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | John Williams - Lumos! (Hedwig’s Theme) - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 | Jarvis Cocker, Jason Buckle, Jonny Greenwood, Phil Selway, Steve Claydon, & Steve Mackey - Do the Hippogriff

Episode 210 - Harry Potter

Back in August 1985, three science-themed comedies aimed at teenagers were all released within one week of each other - Weird Science, Real Genius and My Science Project.  And as we all learned in chemistry class, you should never try to mix acids and bases or something bad can happen.  In this particular questionable experiment in cloning, we got one problematic John Hughes sub-classic, one genuinely ageless Val Kilmer cult classic, and one forgettable Dennis Hopper dud.  All within a week of each other.  Seriously, WTF 1985?


 | 0:00 - Intros and RIP Meat Loaf
 | 5:30 - Peacemaker (HBO Max, 2022)
 | 12:00 - True Detective (Season 2, HBO, 2015)
 | 16:00 - Unacknowledged  (Greer, 2017)
 | 18:15 - Battlebots (Discovery Season 6, 2022)
 | 23:15 - Dark Souls Remastered
 | 26:15 - Wet Leg
 | 30:15 - WTF 1985? Science movies: Real Genius, Weird Science, My Science Project

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
 | Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Wig Wam - Do You Wanna Taste It - Theme from Peacemaker
 | Leonard Cohen - Nevermind
 | Vanacore Music - Battlebots Theme
 | Commercial for Knightscope
 | Dark Souls theme music
 | Wet Leg - Chaise Lounge
 | Wet Leg - Wet Dream
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
 | Clips from Real Genius (1985)
 | Clips from Weird Science (1985)
 | Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Episode 211 - My Real Weird Genius Science Project: WTF 1985

Destroy the movie and listen to the soundtrack instead, because some films are just pure crap and deserve to be erased.  Occasionally we find an unwatchable film that lives on in our collective culture by sole virtue of a great soundtrack.  It is the healing power of music alone that prevents us from gouging out our eyeballs again rather than watch one more crap movie that is touted as a classic by the unwashed masses.  Classic soundtrack, yes.  But burn that bad movie, kill it with fire, and enjoy the awesome music instead.

0:00 Intro
6:35 Blade Runner 2049
19:43 ComiXology
23:42 Cher
25:45 Yello - Stella
27:40 Star Wars (yet again)
29:56 Rocky
31:09 Space Jam
33:24 Cat People
33:35 American Gigolo
34:53 Koyaanisqatsi
36:08 Eric's 90210 spec script
37:32 Purple Rain
41:44 Xanadu
48:43 The Bodyguard
49:53 The Lost Boys
52:10 Valley Girl
55:22 The Crow
59:36 Saturday Night Fever
1:02:37 Singles
1:04:30 Reality Bites
1:05:28 Pump Up The Volume
1:07:42 A Life Less Ordinary
1:10:01 Cool World
1:12:43 Love and a .45
1:13:34 Empire Records
1:14:35 Caddyshack



Music and Samples
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
Duran Duran - A View To A Kill
Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat
Hans Zimmer - Blade Runner 2049 Soundtrack
Stinky Wizzleteats - Happy Happy Joy Joy
Cher - Gypsies Tramps and Thieves
Cher - Fire and Rain
Cher - He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother
Cheap Trick - Dream Police / Simpsons
Yello - Oh Yeah
Yello - Koladi-Ola
Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
John Williams - The Duel of the Fates
John Williams - A New Hope and End Credits
Bill Conti - Theme from Rocky 
Quad City DJs - Space Jam
Seal - Fly Like an Eagle
R. Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly
Giorgio Moroder - Paul’s Theme (Jogging Chase) from Cat People 
Clip from American Gigolo
Blondie - Call Me
Giorgio Moroder / David Bowie - The Myth
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
Philip Glass - The Grid (Koyaanisqatsi)
Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain
Prince & the Revolution - Let’s Go Crazy
The Time - Jungle Love
Prince & the Revolution - Under The Cherry Moon
Electric Light Orchestra - I’m Alive
Olivia Newton John and Cliff Richard - Suddenly
Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World
Olivia Newton John - Magic
Olivia Newton John and Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
Whitney Houston - I’m Every Woman
Roger Daltrey - Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Echo & the Bunnymen - People Are Strange
Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister
Tim Cappello - I Still Believe
Bonnie Hayes & the Wild Combo - Girls Like Me
Plimsouls - Million Miles Away
Josie Cotton - Johnny Are You Queer?
Payolas - Eyes of a Stranger
The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
Sparks - Eaten by the Monster of Love
Total Coelo - I Eat Cannibals (Part One)
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty
Rage Against The Machine - Darkness
The Cure - Burn
Pantera - The Badge
Machines of Loving Grace - Golgotha Tenement Blues
Machines of Loving Grace - Perfect Tan
Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive
The Trammps - Disco Inferno
Walter Murphy - A Fifth of Beethoven
David Shire - Night on Disco Mountain
Kool & the Gang - Open Sesame
K.C. & the Sunshine Band - Boogie Shoes
Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancin’ 
Paul Westerberg - Dyslexic Heart
Alice In Chains - Would?
Pearl Jam - State of Love and Trust
Mudhoney - Overblown
Ethan Hawke - I’m Nuthin’
Ethan Hawke - Add It Up
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows
Beck - Deadweight
Luscious Jackson - Love Is Here
Sneaker Pimps - Velvet Divorce
The Cardigans - It’s War
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sex on Wheelz
Electronic - Disappointed
Pure - Greedy
Kenny Loggins - I’m Alright (theme from Caddyshack)
Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas

Crap Movies Saved By Great Soundtracks

In 1984, there were only 5 albums that hit #1 all year. This is the least amount of top records in a single year EVER. Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Huey Lewis & the News and the Footloose soundtrack… that’s it.  Which means 1984 was either the most homogenous year in music history, or that MTV finally exerted its place at the top of the corporate music heap.  Forget Madonna. Forget Tina Turner.  Forget Wham or the Police.  These are the only five records that existed in 1984.  Period. 


 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 6:50 - The Keep (1983)
 | 14:30 - Elden Ring
 | 17:20 - Peacemaker (2022)
 | 21:05 - Death on the Nile (2022)
 | 27:20 - Flood (2007)
 | 31:15 - The French Dispatch (2021)
 | 37:50 - The only five #1 albums of 1984



 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Eurythmics - Sexcrime (extended mix)
 | Panic! At the Disco - Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Tangerine Dream - It Ends - The Keep
 | Yuka Kitamura - Elden Ring
 | Patrick Doyle - Death on the Nile
 | The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Granny’s Cottage - Flood
 | Alexandre Desplat - Animated Car Chase - The French Dispatch
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Tom T-Bone Stankus - Purple Rain
 | Huey Lewis & The News - I Want a New Drug
 | Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
 | Michael Jackson - Thriller
 | Michael Jackson - The Girl Is Mine (with Paul McCartney)
 | Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
 | Moving Pictures - Never - Footloose
 | Bonnie Tyler - Holding out for a Hero
 | Mike Reno - Almost Paradise (feat. Ann Wilson)
 | Huey Lewis & The News - Honky Tonk Blues
 | James Hetfield & The News - Hip To Be the Sandman
 | American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al
 | Robin Williams - Elmer Fudd sings Fire
 | Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
 | Prince & the Revolution - When Doves Cry
 | Clip from Batman (1989)
 | Prince & the Revolution - Darling Nikki
 | Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain
 | Bruce Springsteen - Purple Rain

Episode 216 - The Five #1 Albums Of 1984

Eric pitched a totally different show this week that Brian and Chris prepared for… Then he called an audible at showtime for an impromptu Q&A game.  Hilarity ensues. Yes, it’s Pop Quiz, Hot Shot: 70s/80s Edition!  What was the first movie you ever went to? The first album you ever bought with your own money? The first television show you binged out on (because it meant something special to you, not because your parents parked you in front of the TV)? Your first celebrity crush?  These are the hard questions we delve into this week and the answers may shock and astound you.  Or not.  Really, it’s just some nostalgia for the 70s and 80s from three guys who are going to be dead a lot sooner than you.

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 3:30 - The Batman (2022)
 | 17:45 - Grand Theft Auto Online
 | 24:00 - Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
 | 27:50 - Hadestown
 | 31:10 - Eric’s “What’s Your First” pop quiz (movies, TV, music)

Episode 222 - Pop Quiz, HotShot: 70s/80s Edition

Fire up that 156k modem, crack open a Crystal Pepsi and get the VCR ready, because we’re about to pick The Most 90s Movie Ever! Enjoy our arbitrary and wholly unscientific attempt to find the movie that singularly defines a decade known mostly for grunge, the internet bubble, and a white Bronco.  Yup, we’ve got tons of electronic & alternative soundtrack music, rollerblading, obsolete “new” tech, reverse-irony, terrible blockbusters, and some overly obvious product placement in a show about an era people only think they remember - the 1990s!  

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 5:20 - The Great
 | 7:28 - Star Trek Picard
 | 17:40 - The Pentaverate
 | 24:40 - Down With Love
 | 27:11 - Moulin Rouge!
 | 32:00 - The Most 90’s Movie Ever

Episode 223 - The Most 90s Movie Ever

Pump Up the Volume is a view of the 90s encased in amber, when the kids were all angry and had no idea what to do about it. It comes from a long line of movies about kids who don’t get what their place in life is, but… you know, In the 90s. With a brilliant soundtrack, a prescience of what social media would become, Christian Slater as Christian Slater, and of course, Samantha Mathis’ boobs, Pump Up the Volume is a view of disaffected youth in America. Again. But… you know, In the 90s! We give our take on this semi-forgotten film, plus everything we’ve been watching and listening to this week in our Peabody Award winning segment, “The Fresh Shit.” Talk hard.

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 3:10 - The Righteous Gem Stones (HBO)
 | 10:30 - Plebs
 | 11:58 - Better Call Saul
 | 17:30 - Severance (Apple TV)
 | 19:50 - Bottle Rocket
 | 23:30 - Nightmare Alley
 | 27:05 - Pump Up The Volume (1990)

Episode 224 - Pump Up The Volume

Influential director John Woo made a name for himself in the late-80s with classically iconic Hong Kong gun-fu cinema like The Killer. Then he emigrated to Hollywood in the early 90s and proceeded to make five generically terrible actioners (Broken Arrow, MI-2, etc), and one bona-fide bat$h!t crazy classic (Face-Off). In short. Hollywood had no clue what to do with his distinctive style and his American output is a damn travesty of wasted opportunity. So what happened? Let's discuss!

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 3:10 - Cruel World Festival (Bauhaus / English Beat / Missing Persons / PiL / DEVO / Psychedelic Furs / Blondie / Violent Femmes / The Damned)
 | 23:35 - Professor Brian Cox - Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey
 | 30:40 - John Woo vs. Hollywood

Episode 225 - John Woo Vs. Hollywood

Hey, it’s another show about another movie about more disaffected youth… only this time it’s Punk!  SLC Punk, to be specific.  This late 90’s indie cult movie chronicles what appears to be the only two punk rockers living in heavily religious Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1985. While the semi-autobiographical film is light on story, it more than makes up for it with a boisterous aesthetic that DGAF… Which is kind of punk? Forget that it hews too closely to similar, more culturally significant films like Trainspotting and Quadrophenia about angry youth subcultures that feel trapped in existential crisis. But the lead performance by Matthew Lillard is very solid, and the soundtrack is a great Punk Rock 101 introduction. But does it hold up all these years later? 

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 3:30 - Coca Cola Starlight and other sodas
 | 7:06 - Russian Doll
 | 10:15 - Ozark
 | 17:34 - The Adam Project
 | 18:50 - Bullsh*t
 | 20:25 - The Pentaverate
 | 22:22 - The Kids in the Hall
 | 30:20 - SLC Punk!

Episode 226 - SLC Punk!

You want some good advice? Well, whatever you do don’t take it from your favorite movie! You’re likely to get a broken nose, a broken heart, or worse. The stories we tell ourselves led us to all manner of dumbassery. The MagHuge podcast crew is here to set you straight.

For actual good advice, here’s Dave’s Garage with an explanation of and solution to the Microsoft Office zero-day exploit: https://youtu.be/gmP8AtmVr0o

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 3:45 - Public Service Announcement (Microsoft Zero Day vulnerability)
 | 5:15 - Grand Theft Auto Online
 | 7:15 - Under The Banner of Heaven
 | 11:20 - Pistol
 | 15:55 - Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
 | 19:25 - The Northman
 | 22:20 - Obi Wan Kenobi
 | 30:40 - Garbage and Tears for Fears (live)
 | 34:00 - Top Gun Maverick
 | 42:00 - Lies the Movies Told Us

Episode 227 - Lies The Movies Told Us

Set the Wayback Machine to 1982 as we revisit a sword & sorcery cult classic that is about to turn 40 years old and isn't Conan - The Beastmaster!  Because you really can’t go wrong with a movie about Dr. Doolittle in a loincloth talking to animals like nobody’s business and twirling a sword around his head with flair.  The Beastmaster was not a huge hit at the box office, but like many films in the 80s it eventually found an audience… mostly because it aired on cable TV 5 times a week for like 10 years. Happy 40th Anniversary to forgotten classic - The Beastmaster!

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 3:50 - This Week’s Billboard Top 5 Songs
 | 11:30 - Pistol
 | 16:00 - Shoresy
 | 17:10 - Obi Wan Kenobi
 | 21:15 - Not E3 and The Plucky Squire
 | 23:30 - Come From Away
 | 27:00 - The Beastmaster

Episode 228 - The Beastmaster: 40th Anniversary

The world is utter garbage and everything is horrible. Here’s a show about a movie to take your mind off of the hopeless hellscape that is your life today, if only for a short while. 
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is another movie from the early 2000s that somehow Brian hadn’t seen yet. We talk about it. Also this week, Elvis and Ben Folds!

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 3:00 - Elvis (2022)
 | 13:20 - not watching Jurassic World or Lightyear, but somehow Maria Menunos is everywhere
 | 15:30 - The Pentaverate
 | 17:10 - Ben Folds - In Actual Person Live For Real Tour
 | 22:55 - Scoob!
 | 29:50 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Episode 229 - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

If you don’t know who Devo is, you probably do know their song, “Whip It.” Devo’s following is enormous, and they’ve been legendary for years. Still, “Whip It” is what would be on their tomb stone. (If bands were buried.) This show is about those songs, the ones that outshine their creators. This isn’t the same as one-hit-wonders - those are songs that are big, and the people who sang them just go away. They don’t have any following or career to speak of. This show is going to be about figuring out the rules of a “Whip It.”

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 4:35 - No Time To Die (2021) [SPOILERS]
 | 13:00 - Thor Love and Thunder (2022)
 | 17:20 - Ms. Marvel
 | 18:55 - Stranger Things 4
 | 28:20 - Whip It Bands

Episode 230 - Whip Its - Songs Bigger Than The Bands That Made Them

Back in 1978, mega-star Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham followed up their enormous success of Smokey and the Bandit with a simple ode to the Hollywood Stuntman called Hooper.  And we dare you not to get pulled in by its frothy, effervescent charm in a virtually plotless romp that follows Reynolds as the titular hero performing ever-crazier gags for the movie-within-a-movie “The Spy Who Laughed at Danger.”  Basically, this is yet another excuse for Reynolds to have some fun with his friends and co-stars (Sally Field, Jan Michael Vincent and Brian Keith) and he is at his breezy best here. Coming it at #6 at the 1978 box office, this one went on to play non-stop on HBO and is a cornerstone of the MagHuge crew’s arrested development!

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 2:45 - Rejected
 | 5:57 - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
 | 17:30 - Only Murders In The Building
 | 21:10 - The MaryTyler Moore Show
 | 24:25 - RRR
 | 30:15 - The Lion King (Touring)
 | 38:20 - Hooper (1978)

Episode 231 - Burt Reynolds Is Hooper

In 1977, Mel Brooks was on one helluva roll with classic film parodies like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.  But rather than talk about those, instead we’re gonna revisit his riff on Hitchcock called High Anxiety.  While it has some good bits - because Mel Brooks - this is one where the worm started to turn for his particular brand.  And we aren’t entirely sure why.  High Anxiety just hasn’t held up as well compared to his earlier work, and that’s our dumb thesis. Enjoy! 

High anxiety, it's always the same.
Ooh-XIETY, It's you that I blame.
It's very clear to me, I've got to give in. 
High anxiety…You win.

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 3:04 - The Gray Man (2022)
 | 11:10 - Discovery, Warner Bros., HBO Max
 | 17:35 - Prey (2022)
 | 23:20 - Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (2022)
 | 27:05 - Neon White
 | 29:15 - High Anxiety (1977)

Episode 232 - High Anxiety

This week we look at the relatively new phenomenon of binge-watching television shows. Now that entire seasons are streaming, we can all crack out on our favorite shows and watch our favorites for days on end without being interrupted by lame commercials, obnoxious season-ending cliffhangers, overrated sleep, pesky jobs, or even the horror of other people. Shows are even designed to hold your attention for as long as you can sit there without soiling yourself. While “Orange is the New Black” and “Handmaid’s Tale” were written for streaming, there are a lot of shows from the past that also arc over the course of several seasons. We’re going to go through our favorites - and hope you write us to tell us yours!

Intros
Babylon 5
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
Jessica Jones
Weeds
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
Silicon Valley
Nine Inch Nails
Deadpool 2
Santa Clarita Diet Season 2
Archer: Danger Island
Beautiful Creatures
Do binge-worthy shows require an ongoing narrative?
Reality shows
Mad Men
Deadwood
Heroes
Rome
The Wire
Family Tree
Peaky Blinders
Farscape


Clips
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
Glen A. Larson - Theme from Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Christopher Franke - Babyon 5 Season 1 Extended Theme
Michael Giacchino - Lost - Life & Death Theme
Bear McCreary - Battlestar Galactica - Main Title (US Version)
Sean Callery - Jessica Jones - Opening credits music
Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes
Dave Porter - Breaking Bad Theme
Ramin Djawadi - Game of Thrones Main Title Theme
Tom Fec - Theme from Silicon Valley
Nine Inch Nails - God Break Down The Door
Nine Inch Nails - Less Than
Celine Dion - Ashes
Deadpool 2 Trailer
Archie Thompson - Archer Danger Island Theme
Tales of the Gold Monkey Theme
Clip from Ishtar
RJD2 and Aceyalone - A Beautiful Mine (Mad Men opening theme)
David Schwartz - Deadwood theme
Intro from Heroes
Jeff Beal - Rome - Main title theme
The Blind Boys of Alabama - Way Down In The Hole (theme from The Wire)
Nick Cave - Red Right Hand (theme from Peaky Blinders)
Toby Chris - Theme from Farscape
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television, the Drug of the Nation

Episode 51 - Binge TV

Are movie theme songs even a thing anymore?  They used to be EVERYWHERE, those soundtracks of summer that made us want to go see the film.  Let’s be real, we all know at least one earworm that rolled during the credits that we can still sing in our sleep.  But do we always remember the movie it came from?  We present a few of the songs that managed to eclipse the movies from whence they came to become classics in their own right, plus a whole bag of ugly sonic miscues that you will wish had stayed forgotten.

Plus, here is the only Movie Theme Song Playlist you will ever need:
https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/4e0KPVasz1bshnSs8tfWe1?si=KLx_QammSTGDnlQnf-gOJw

0:00 Intros
5:00 The Fresh Shit
19:33 Movie Theme Songs: ground rules

Huey Lewis and the News: The Power Of Love
Bell Book and Candle
Boy’s Night Out
Michael Giacchino: Incredits 2
Utada Hikaru: Don’t Think Twice (Kingdom Hearts 3)
Control trailer
Charles Aznavour: Parce que tu crois: Oceans 8
Ray Parker Jr.: Ghostbusters
Bobby Brown: On Our Own
Rick Astley: Never Gonna Give You Up
Celine Dion: My Heart Will Go On
Whitney Houston: I Will Always Love You
Survivor: Eye of the Tiger
Joe “Bean” Esposito: You’re the Best
Isaac Hayes: Theme From Shaft
Marvin Gaye: Trouble Man
Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes: Up Where We Belong
Irene Cara: What A Feeling
Rose Royce: Car Wash
The Ramones: Rock and Roll High School
Prince: Batdance
Debby Boone: You Light Up My Life
Limp Bizkit: Take A Look Around
Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton: Theme from Mission: Impossible
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes: (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life
Will Smith: Men In Black
Will Smith: Wild Wild West
Starship: Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
Bryan Adams: (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Bryan Adams: Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?
Blondie: Call Me
Limahl: The NeverEnding Story
Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder: Together In Electric Dreams
Kenny Loggins: Danger Zone
Berlin: Take My Breath Away
Harold Faltermeyer: Axel F
Jan Hammer: Miami Vice Theme
The Art of Noise featuring Duane Eddy: Peter Gunn Theme
John Parr: St. Elmo’s Fire
Night Ranger: The Secret Of My Success
Mick Jagger: Ruthless People
Paul McCartney: Spies Like Us
Queen: Flash’s Theme
Margot Kidder: Can You Read My Mind?
Maureen McGovern: Can You Read My Mind?
Maureen McGovern: The Morning After
Deniece Williams: Let’s Hear It for the Boy
Tina Turner: We Don’t Need Another Hero
Clips from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
The Beach Boys: Kokomo
Vanilla Ice: Ninja Rap
Seal: Kiss From A Rose
U2: Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Smashing Pumpkins: The End Is The Beginning Is The End
Quad City DJs: Space Jam
R. Kelly: I Believe I Can Fly
Alanis Morissette: Uninvited
Aerosmith: I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing
Kendrick Lamar, SZA: All The Stars
Pharrell Williams: Happy
Justin Timberlake: CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!
Soundgarden: Live To Rise
Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott: Hero
Eminem: Lose Yourself
Celine Dion: Ashes
Johnny Mandel: Suicide Is Painless
Public Enemy: Fight The Power
Liza Minnelli: New York, New York
Harry Nilsson: Everybody’s Talkin’
Audrey Hepburn and Henry Mancini: Moon River
Carol Channing: Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend
Barbra Streisand: The Way We Were
Steely Dan: FM
Dooley Wilson: As Time Goes By
Judy Garland: Over The Rainbow
Kermit the Frog: The Rainbow Connection
Dolly Parton: 9 to 5
Bee Gees: Night Fever
Bette Midler: The Rose
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough
Phil Collins: Against All Odds
AC/DC: Who Made Who
AC/DC: Big Gun
Lindsey Buckingham: Holiday Road
Queen: A Kind of Magic

Episode 55 - Movie Theme Songs

Everybody cut Footloose, because here is the final chapter in our Kenny Loggins movie themes retrospective!  Yes, we dive headfirst into the titular 1984 not-musical about what happens when a small town outlaws fun and forces newcomer Kevin Bacon to teach the kids interpretive dance so they can have one final hoedown before sacrificing themselves to the demon Baphomet.  We think that’s what happened, anyway.  This movie is truly a mess and confused us on multiple levels.  And yet it has defied the odds to become a pop 80s classic that gave Kenny Loggins his only Number 1 song while also catapulting Kevin Bacon’s whole career.  Who are we to argue with that sort of pedigree?  

0:00 Intros
9:17 Henry Rollins
14:00 First Man
18:30 Venom
26:15 Doctor Who Series 13
36:00 Logman Vol. 4
38:30 Footloose

Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
Ronald Reagan - presidential debate - October 7, 1984\
Justin Hurwitz - End Credits - First Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Eminem - Venom
Journey - Lights
Clip from Avatar: The Last Airbender
Segun Akinola - Doctor Who Theme (2018)
Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
Kenny Loggins - Meet Me Halfway
Kenny Loggins - Playin’ With The Boys
Kenny Loggins - I’m Alright
Jodi Benson - Part of Your World - The Little Mermaid
Moving Pictures - Never
Shalamar - Dancing In the Sheets
Quiet Riot - Bang Your Head (Metal Health)
Bill Medly, Jennifer Warnes - I’ve Had The Time Of My Life
Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero
Deniece Williams - Let’s Hear It For The Boy
Clip from Footloose (1984)
Ann Wilson, Mike Reno - Almost Paradise
Blake Shelton - Footloose
Glee - Footloose
“Weird Al” Yankovic - Hooked On Polkas

Episode 68 - Logman Vol. 4: Footloose

Clowns, booze, sex, drugs, infidelity, murder, romance, more clowns, redemption and mimes... this movie has it all.  Shakes the Clown is the latest pick in our Lost VHS Classic series, and if clowns didn’t freak you before watching this thing they sure as hell will after.  This darkly funny gem is the directorial debut of comedian Bobcat Goldthwait and has gone on to earn every bit of its cult movie status with scatological humor that delights in the uncomfortable.  Love it or hate it, Shakes the Clown is anything but forgettable.  Betsy Sherman of the Boston Globe once dubbed it “the Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies” and we couldn’t agree more. 

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 7:55 - Hello, Dolly! (Touring)
 | 12:38 - Vice (2018)
 | 19:03 - On The Basis Of Sex (2018)
 | 25:33 - FEUD: Bette and Joan (2017)
 | 30:56 - Bird Box (2018)
 | 36:45 - Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
 | 40:11 - Roma (2018)
 | 43:00 - Shakes The Clown (1991)

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | R.E.M. - Binky The Doormat
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Stars on 45 - Stars on 45
 | C+C Music Factory - Things That Make You Go Hmmmm
 | Nicholas Britell - Vice - Main Title Piano Suite
 | Clip from Last Week Tonight (Apr 23, 2017)
 | Michael Danna - The Times Have Already Changed - On The Basis Of Sex (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | The Dead Milkmen - Instant Club Hit
 | Abbott & Costello - Who’s On First
 | Mac Quayle - Main Title - FEUD: Bette and Joan
 | Richard Stone - Animaniacs Theme Music
 | Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Outside - Bird Box (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | John Williams - The Adventures of Han - Solo: A Star Wars Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Clip from The Matrix Reloaded
 | Leo Dan - Te He Prometido - Roma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Clips from Shakes The Clown
 | NRBQ - Me And The Boys

Episode 75 - Lost VHS Classics: Shakes The Clown

We punch low this week after listening to the new surprise album release from 90’s nerd-rock stalwarts Weezer - The Teal Album!  And then review it track by track in the style of Casey Kasem's American Top 40!
It’s not that we hate covers albums - there have been plenty over the years we actually adore. We just hate THIS particular covers album.
Featuring Toto’s “Africa,” TLC’s “No Scrubs,” Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid,” Tears For Fears, A-Ha & beyond, this album is an unenthusiastic sampling of greatest hits from greater artists.  Is this Weezer's homage to the songs that influenced them, or are they just trolling us all with a phoned in contractual obligation record? 
The countdown compares each cover to a better version done by literally anyone other than Weezer.  Because we have now transcended irony.

 | 5:45 - The Man In The High Castle
 | 7:25 - The Assassination Of Gianni Versace 
 | 9:44 - Brawl In Cell Block 99
 | 13:55 - Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical
 | 16:05 - The Kid Who Would Be King
 | 21:00 - Russian Doll
 | 23:52 - Velvet Buzzsaw
 | 27:56 - Pen15
 | 30:38 - Let’s get to the cover songs!
 | 31:53 - Stand By Me
 | 40:42 - Billie Jean
 | 47:08 - No Scrubs
 | 52:49 - Mister Blue Sky
 | 59:04 - Paranoid
 | 1:02:45 - Happy Together
 | 1:07:00 - Take On Me
 | 1:14:35 - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
 | 1:20:32 - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
 | 1:24:50 - Africa

 | Clips:
 | TM Productions - Dark Disco
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Mac Quayle-Adagio in G Minor
 | Butch Tavares - Give Her A Ride - Brawl In Cell Block 99
 | Clip from Watchmen (2009)
 | Michael C. Hall - Advertising Ruins Everything - from Skittles Commercial: The Broadway  | Musical
 | Michael C. Hall - This Definitely Was a Bad Idea - from Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical
 | Electric Wave Bureau - Arthur’s Theme - The Kid Who Would Be King
 | Chad Kroeger - Hero
 | Clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 | Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up
 | Five Knives - Money
 | Len - If You Steal My Sunshine
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Stand By Me: Covers by Weezer, John Lennon, Florence + The Machine, Mickey Gilley, Meat Loaf
 | Blowfly - Don’t Suck Me No Mo’
 | Billie Jean: Covers by Weezer,  Chris Cornell, Martini Lizards
 | Trailer for A Deadly Adoption
 | Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’
 | Weezer - No Scrubs
 | Ben Folds - Bitches Ain’t Shit
 | Bastille - No Angels [ft. Ella]
 | Blink 187 - Dysentery Gary
 | Weezer - Mister Blue Sky
 | Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line
 | Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down
 | Electric Light Orchestra - Do Ya
 | Weezer - Paranoid
 | The Dickies - Paranoid
 | Happy Together: Covers by Weezer, Flobots, Mel Tormé
 | Inside Out - The Stalking Song (So Happy Together)
 | Take On Me: Covers by Weezer, Anni B Sweet, Hello India Calling, Lake Street Drive - Take On Me, Reel Big Fish
 | Clip from Saturday Night Live
 | Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This): Covers by Weezer, Marilyn Manson, Emily Browning, Rebecca Ferguson
 | Patti Smith - Smells Like Teen Spirit
 | Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit
 | Everybody Wants To Rule The World: Covers by Weezer, Relient K, Lorde
 | Gary Jules - Mad World
 | Africa: Covers by Weezer, Pyogenesis, Ninja Sex Party, Perpetuum Jazzile, Relient K, Hackney Colliery Band, Subaudible Hum, Kidz Bop
 | Toto - Hold The Line
 | David Bowie - I Can’t Explain
 | David Bowie - Let’s Spend The Night Together
 | Bryan Ferry - It’s My Party
 | Bryan Ferry - These Foolish Things
 | Skavoovie & the Epitones - Batman theme
 | Leo Moracchioli feat. Rabea & Hannah - Africa

Episode 78 - Cover Albums Are Awesome...Unless They’re By Weezer

Hair metal came on strong in the early 80s and quickly became the soundtrack for suburban teens looking to party.  Fueled by incessant airplay on MTV, these new bands borrowed heavily from the look of glam and hard rock of the 70s.  The music was slick and polished guitar rock that covered deep topics like girls, partying, having sex with girls, sticking it to the man, more partying, having a good time, drugs, even more sex with girls, and the occasional  power ballad. The image was arguably more important than the music and it helped define the Me Decade with its swagger and excess...before grunge came along in the early 90s and kicked hair metal in the teeth.  It was a fun ride while it lasted, and bands like Poison, Mötley Crüe, Warrant, Quiet Riot, & Whitesnake milked it for all it was worth, making millions in the process.  Cue the blistering guitar solo as a scantily-clad vixen crawls across the hood of a luxury sports car.  Now that’s what I call Hair Metal!

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 4:15 - The Rockford Files (s3e17)
 | 6:22 - Hellboy (2019)
 | 11:00 - Fosse/Verdon (FX)
 | 16:50 - Game of Thrones Season 8 (HBO)
 | 17:55 - Santa Clarita Diet Season 3 (Netflix)
 | 21:25 - Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (Netflix)
 | 24:30 - Black Monday (2019)
 | 30:11 - The OA
 | 32:22 - Hair Metal

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Quiet Riot - Bang Your Head (Metal Health)
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Mike Post - The Rockford Files
 | Ben Folds Five - Battle Of Who Could Care Less
 | Benjamin Wallfisch - Big Red - Hellboy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Alex Lacamoire - Fosse/Verdon Theme
 | Gwen Verdon - Whatever Lola Wants - Damn Yankees (Original Broadway Cast)
 | Gwen Verdon & Eddie Phillips - Who’s Got the Pain? - Damn Yankees (Original Broadway Cast)
 | Ramin Djawadi - Main Titles - Game of Thrones (Music from the HBO Series)
 | David Shire / Linda Lavin - There’s A New Girl In Town (from Alice)
 | Clips from Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2019)
 | Meat Beat Manifesto - Brainwashed This Way + Zombie + That Shirt
 | Ice-T - O.G. - O.G. Original Gangster
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Van Halen - Unchained
 | Judas Priest - Heading Out On The Highway
 | Mötley Crüe - Looks That Kill
 | Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
 | Poison - Talk Dirty To Me
 | Carl Stalling - Powerhouse
 | Warrant - Cherry Pie
 | Oingo Boingo - Little Girls
 | Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
 | Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize
 | Ratt - Round and Round
 | Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
 | Def Leppard - Rocket
 | Def Leppard - Too Late For Love
 | Guns N’ Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
 | Cinderella - Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)
 | Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
 | Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive
 | Steel Panther - Death to All But Metal
 | Twisted Sister - We’re Not Gonna Take It

Episode 85 - Now That's What I Call Hair Metal!

Do you love Disney animation, but hate cartoons? Who doesn't? At least that's what The House the Mouse Built is betting on. In keeping with this latest spree of "Cinematic Universes," Disney is now making film versions of all their classic animations. Well, okay, they aren't out and out CALLING them that, but come on: Cinderella, Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, and Dumbo have already been reshot, with more on the way. So this week we ask: If kids like cartoons, aren't they going to LOVE not-cartoons of the exact same thing? It's a grudge match between Lion King and Aladdin to figure out which one's better, which one holds up best, which one has a more sympathetic villain, which one is more woke... and which one we'll even bother to go see.

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 07:25 - Chernobyl documentaries on YouTube
 | 09:30 - Archer 1999
 | 11:11 - Bruce Lee Biography
 | 14:15 - America’s Got Talent
 | 16:55 - Rifftrax Live!: Star Raiders
 | 19:11 - E3 2019 (Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Marvel’s Avengers, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Superliminal)
 | 26:30 - Disney Renaissance

 | Clips
 | Jerry Orbach & the chorus of Beauty and the Beast - Be Our Guest
 | Boston - Foreplay / Long Time
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | The B-52’s - Party Out of Bounds
 | Archer 1999 Intro music
 | GFORCE - (From America’s Got Talent 2019)
 | Star Raiders (2017) Trailer
 | Final Fantasy VII Remake Trailer (E3 2019)
 | Marvel’s Avengers - E3 2019 Reveal Trailer
 | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Main Theme (no lyrics)
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin & Jim Cummings - Be Prepared - The Lion King (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Tiffany Haddish - Not Evil - The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Clips from Aladdin (1992)
 | Carmen Twillie & Lebo M - Circle of Life - The Lion King (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | The Little Mermaid (1989) Trailer (VHS)
 | The B-52’s - Whammy Kiss
 | Samuel E. Wright - Under The Sea - The Little Mermaid (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Harry Connick, Jr. - The Bare Necessities
 | Robin Williams - Prince Ali - Aladdin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Tony Jay - Hellfire - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | The Disney Afternoon Studio Chorus - Duck Tales Theme

Episode 92 - 1990’s Disney Renaissance

Grab your broadsword, put on your loincloth, oil up those abs, and prepare for a magical journey into peak 1980’s Sword & Sorcery movies! From 1980-1985, this nudity-filled, blood-soaked Fantasy subgenre was all the rage thanks to the early success of studio offerings like Excalibur and Conan the Barbarian. While these titles brought a veneer of credibility to the genre, it was soon overrun by increasingly terrible low-budget/no-budget Conan clones. Still, each film was brimming with everything 13-year-old boys with Frank Frazetta posters on their walls and D&D in their hearts really want: Lots of boobs, lots of graphic violence, severed limbs, monsters, decapitations, more boobs, some derring-do, a bit more nudity, and enchanted weapons that make zero sense once any scrutiny is given to them (just like the plots). Let us now recount those glorious days of high adventure, filled with barbarians, boobs, swords & sorcery!

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 6:20 - Brittany Runs A Marathon (2019)
 | 7:49 - Hustlers (2019)
 | 12:24 - NHL Hockey
 | 14:04 - The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
 | 19:20 - 80’s Sword & Sorcery
 | 20:36 - Conan the Barbarian (1982)
 | 21:30 - Hawk The Slayer (1980)
 | 23:36 - Sorceress (1982)
 | 26:34 - Dragonslayer (1981)
 | 31:02 - Excalibur (1981)
 | 32:45 - The Beastmaster (1982)
 | 37:02 - Ator The Blade Master (1982)
 | 41:22 - The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
 | 48:14 - Krull (1983)
 | 50:14 - Legend (1985)
 | 53:00 - Hundra  (1983)
 | 56:20 - Conan the Destroyer (1984)
 | 57:45 - Ladyhawke (1985)

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Basil Poledouris - The Orgy - Conan the Barbarian (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Duncan Thum - NYC Marathon (Alt Version) - Brittany Runs A Marathon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Fiona Apple - Criminal
 | Stompin’ Tom Connors - The Hockey Song
 | SQÜRL - The Dead Don’t Die - The Dead Don’t Die (Original Score)
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Basil Poledouris - Anvil of Crom (From “Conan the Barbarian”) - performed by Celestial Aeon Project 
 | Trailer for Sorceress (1982)
 | Negativland - The Playboy Channel
 | Alex North - End Credits - Dragonslayer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Trailer for Zardoz (1974)
 | Lee Holdridge - The Legend of Dar - The Beastmaster (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 | Clip from Conan the Barbarian (1982) 
 | Trailer for The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
 | Chuck Cirino - End Title - Deathstalker II (1987)
 | Brandon K. Verrett and Tangerine Dream - Loved By the Sun - Legend (Music from the Motion Picture)
 | Trailer for Hundra (1983)
 | Tangerine Dream - Theme from Ladyhawke

Episode 106 - Barbarians, Boobs, Swords & Sorcery: Fantasy Films of the 80’s

How many bands are named after places? A freakin’ crapload, that’s how many! Join the MagHuge crew as we explore the strange phenomenon of musical acts who can’t think of anything interesting to call themselves so they just pick a random place and run with it - like Chicago, Kansas, Asia, or Berlin. Think globally, name locally, that’s our motto for today. From streets and cities, to states and nations, all the way to continents, planets, galaxies and beyond, no place is safe! Plus, a bonus minisode is included wherein we try to dissect the weirdest film series ever made - Disney’s Herbie the Love Bug. It’s a real gas, man!

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 5:30 - Jello Biafra
 | 8:30 - The Boomtown Rats
 | 9:50 - Herbie the Love Bug retrospective (Disney)
 | 29:30 - Fiddler on the Roof (touring)
 | 33:37 - Doctor Who series 12 (BBC, 2020)
 | 38:30 - Bands named after geographical locations

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Boston - Foreplay / Long Time
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School of Medicine - White People and the Damage Done
 | The Boomtown Rats - Up All Night
 | The Blacksmoke Organisation - Herbie (Fully Loaded Remix)
 | George Bruns - Herbie The Love Bug Theme
 | Dean Jones - Herbie the Love Bug TV Intro
 | Lindsay Lohan - First
 | Sunrise, Sunset - Fiddler on the Roof - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording
 | Tradition - Fiddler on the Roof - 2016 Broadway Cast Recording
 | Doctor Who Series 11 title music
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Talk Talk - Talk Talk
 | Big Country - In a Big Country
 | M83 - Midnight City
 | Phoenix - 1901
 | Brownsville Station - Smokin’ In The Boy’s Room
 | America - A Horse With No Name
 | Little River Band - Lonesome Loser
 | Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
 | Boston - More Than a Feeling
 | Chicago - Hard to Say I’m Sorry
 | Asia - Heat of the Moment
 | Europe - The Final Countdown
 | Portishead - Sour Times
 | Cypress Hill - I Ain't Goin' Out Like That
 | Fountains of Wayne - Stacy’s Mom
 | Robbie Fulks - Fountains of Wayne Hotline
 | Berlin - The Metro
 | “Weird Al” Yankovic - Polkas On 45
 | Linkin Park - Crawling
 | JAY-Z & Linkin Park - Numb / Encore

Episode 124 - Bands Named After Places

Giorgio Moroder is the most influential musician you have probably never heard of. He was an early techno musician and producer before there was anything even called, “techno.” (In other words, without Giorgio Moroder, no Daft Punk.) He has written songs for David Bowie, Blondie, Janet Jackson, and a bunch more than I can put down here. He produced all of the best singles Donna Summer ever recorded, before becoming the most sought after soundtrack composer in the 70s and 80s.If you’re a fan of the films Scarface, or Top Gun, or American Gigolo, or The Neverending Story, you know what he adds to a movie is outer-worldly. So this week, we are celebrating the unmitigated genius of one of our favorite musicians, Giorgio Moroder.

Apple Music playlist:
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/episode-133-know-this-band-giorgio-moroder/pl.u-2JWzTNLJVWK

Spotify playlist: 
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xbeVQnSSDO4W3G0SStgnR?si=xRMz4OVqTBuYGulq12oTEg

 | 0:00 Intros
 | 4:00 - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (King)
 | 7:20 - Green Lantern (2011)
 | 11:45 - Spectral (2016)
 | 16:25 - Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
 | 19:15 - Prizzi’s Honor (Condon)
 | 20:13 - The Death of Stalin (2017)
 | 22:55 - Ip Man (2008)
 | 27:00 - Final Fantasy VII Remake vs: NieR Automata
 | 32:45 - Pikuniku
 | 34:15 - Giorgio Moroder

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Donna Summer - I Feel Love
 | Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together in Electric Dreams
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Bomani “D’mite” Armah - Read A Book
 | James Newton Howard - The Corps - Green Lantern Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
 | Tom HOLKENBORG - End Credits - Spectral
 | Howard Shore - The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
 | Christopher Willis - End Credits - The Death of Stalin
 | Kenji Kawai - Ip Man
 | Dubmood - Chiptune
 | Nobuo Uematsu - Let the Battles Begin! - Final Fantasy VII Remake 
 | Calum Bowen - Introducing Pikuniku Again, Trailer 2
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Giorgio Moroder - Tom’s Diner (feat. Britney Spears)
 | Giorgio Moroder - 74 Is the New 24
 | Giorgio Moroder - Chase
 | Debbie Harry - Rush Rush - Scarface Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
 | Giorgio Moroder - Night Drive (American Gigolo/Soundtrack Version)
 | David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
 | Berlin - Take My Breath Away
 | Giorgio Moroder - Love’s Theme - Midnight Express
 | Harold Faltermeyer & Steve Stevens - Top Gun Anthem
 | Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity
 | Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
 | Sparks - The Number One Song in Heaven
 | Giorgio Moroder - Utopia Me Giorgio
 | Nufonic - Kraftwerk & Moroder - Chase The Model (Mashup)
 | Blondie - Call Me
 | Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
 | Limahl - The Neverending Story
 | Berlin - No More Words
 | Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
 | Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Sex Bomb Boogie
 | Giorgio Moroder - Battlestar Galactica
 | Ohio Express - Yummy, Yummy, Yummy
 | Vangelis - Blade Runner (End Titles)
 | Philip Glass - Rubric
 | Giorgio Moroder - La Disco

Episode 133 - Giorgio Moroder

Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man is a movie that probably shouldn’t exist, yet thankfully does. The 1991 actioner was supposed to be a big hit for stars Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson, the titular heroes with names that wander dangerously close to copyright infringement. The story is simple: It’s a modern western set in the near future of 1996 wherein two drifters literally rob a stagecoach to save their local saloon. There are gunfights and explosions galore, sure, but also a lot of goofy charm thanks to the strong onscreen chemistry of the two leads. And it still failed to find an audience. Both actors admit they were only in it for the money, with Johnson even saying, “If you're a fan of mindless action. If you don’t have a single brain cell in your head, this is the film for you.” Which is one of the biggest undersells in movie history, because this one is pure gold, kids. A bona fide cult classic, and another Lost VHS Classic review from the crack MagHuge team. 

As promised, here’s a link to Quarter Life Poetry: https://youtu.be/Y8TgHURF1Lk

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 5:10 - Cake (FXX)
 | 8:55 - Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019)
 | 13:10 - I Am A Knife With Legs (2014)
 | 17:10 - Black Monday (Showtime)
 | 19:12 - Homeland (Showtime)
 | 25:00 - Salt & Pepper (1968)
 | 33:30 - The Plot Thickens (podcast)
 | 35:00 - Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man (1991)

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | The Bollock Brothers - Harley David (Son if a Bitch)
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Quarter Life Poetry - Damn I Love This Friday Night
 | Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans - We Are Titans Song
 | Trailer for I Am A Knife With Legs
 | Clip from Black Monday
 | Trailer for Salt and Pepper
 | Sammy Davis Jr. - I Like the Way You Dance
 | Trailer for One More Time
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
 | Trailer for Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man
 | Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
 | Sammy Davis Jr. - Salt & Pepper

Episode 136 - Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man

Remember...The Nuge’ll taint ya! A long time ago, music was performed by people with instruments. That led to people who were really good at playing them.  And that led to Supergroups: Collections of the best performers who are the finest in their own bands, teaming up to make what was hoped would be an even bigger musical success. Think Avengers with Les Pauls. This week, we go over some of the biggest names in the genre. 

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 6:00 - South Park Pandemic Special (2020)
 | 8:30 - National Treasure (2004)
 | 14:15 - Watchmen (2009)
 | 18:25 - Colin Quinn: Unconstitutional (2015)
 | 20:22 - The Good Place
 | 23:00 - Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
 | 26:30 - Smartless (podcast)
 | 28:35 - Archer
 | 30:45 - Risky Business
 | 35:00 - Supergroups

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | The Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Primus - South Park Theme
 | Trevor Rabin - National Treasure Suite
 | Tyler Bates - Rescue Mission - Watchmen
 | Clip from Colin Quinn Unconstitutional
 | David Schwartz - The Good Place Opening Music
 | Grand Theft Auto V Theme
 | Scott Sims Mel Young JG Thirlwell - Archer Theme Song
 | Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train
 | Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Old TIme Rock & Roll
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
 | Emerson Lake & Palmer - Eruption
 | Electronic - Idiot Country
 | Electronic - Disappointed
 | Electronic - Getting Away With It
 | Staind - It’s Been A While
 | Damn Yankees - Coming of Age
 | Velvet Revolver - Sucker Train Blues
 | Velvet Revolver - Slither
 | Audioslave - Show Me How to Live
 | Prophets of Rage - Prophets of Rage
 | Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike
 | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Helpless
 | The Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line
 | Highwaymen - The Last Cowboy Song
 | The Lords Of The New Church - Open Your Eyes
 | The Lords Of The New Church - Dance With Me
 | Lard - The Power of Lard
 | Pigface - Bitch
 | Pigface - F**k it up (Did You Ever Get the Feeling?)
 | Pigface - Suck
 | This Mortal Coil - Kangaroo
 | FFS - Collaborations Don’t Work
 | The Brides of Funkenstein - Disco To Go

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