This round is actors who surprised us by going the career distance over the ones we expected to soar but who actually fizzled.  It’s a real Tortoise Vs. Hare sitch that turned out to be way more difficult to wrap our heads around than we thought.  For example, who knew the kid from Teen Wolf Too would go on to become the class-act we now know as multi-hyphenate actor/writer/producer/directorJason Bateman?  We sure didn’t!  We totally figured someone like Anthony Michael Hall was destined for that kind of awesome.  Nope.  So egg on our faces, because that sure as hell didn’t happen! 

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 5:35 - Tread (2019)
 | 14:45 - This Is Pop (Netflix, 2021)
 | 24:30 - The Sparks Brothers (2021)
 | 28:45 - F9: The Fast Saga (2021)
 | 36:25 - Tortoise Beats Hare
 
 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | CeCe Peniston - Finally
 | Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Austin Wintory - My Name Is Marvin Heemeyer - Tread
 | Thom Yorke - Wonderwall (Acoustic Version Oasis Parody)
 | Sparks - Amateur Hour
 | Skepta & Pop Smoke - Lane Switcha (feat. ASAP Rocky, Juicy J & Project Pat)
 | The Prodigy - Breathe (feat. RZA) [Liam H and Rene LaVice Re-Amp]
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Clip from Ruthless People (1986)
 | Lauryn Hill - Everything Is Everything

Episode 188 - Tortoise Beats Hare

Back in the 70’s, horny boys didn’t have the internet. The lucky ones had Playboy. The truly nerdy ones had Heavy Metal, an illustrated anthology magazine that featured the sort of sex, violence, and power fantasies that would eventually be provided by video games. But the poor lonely pre-teens of the 70’s didn’t really even have that to turn to. So yeah, Heavy Metal. And then in 1981 they made a movie of it! The Mag Huge crew breaks it all down for you.

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 5:25 - Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu, 2021)
 | 11:15 - Public Image Ltd.
 | 15:20 - Miracle Workers: Oregon Trail (TNT, 2021)
 | 18:40 - The Protégé (2021)
 | 23:00 - Annette (2021)
 | 28:45 - What If…? (Disney+, 2021)
 | 32:20 - Heavy Metal (1981)

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Don Felder - Heavy Metal (Takin’ a Ride)
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Unloved - Strange Effect
 | Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
 | Public Image Ltd. - Public Image
 | Public Image Ltd. - Religion II
 | Daniel Radcliffe - She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain - Miracle Workers Oregon Trail
 | Photek - Back To Vietnam - The Protégé
 | Sparks, Adam Driver & Marion Cotillard - So May We Start - Annette
 | Sparks, Adam Driver & Marion Cotillard - We Love Each Other So Much - Annette
 | Clip from What If…? s1e3
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Don Felder - All Of You
 | Clips from Heavy Metal (1981)
 | Trailer from Deadly Blessing (1981)
 | Cheap Trick - Reach Out
 | Sammy Hagar - Heavy Metal
 | Elmer Bernstein - Taarna’s Theme - Heavy Metal
 | Love Death + Robots Theme
 | Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
 | Stevie Nicks - Blue Lamp
 | Donald Fagan - True Companion
 | Devo - Working in the Coalmine

Episode 197 - Heavy Metal

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

“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.” For a few uber-nerds, that line means the start of the most respected - and ripped off - science fiction franchise of all time, Frank Herbert's. Dune. This month, a new film adaptation was released - the third time the original 1965 novel was adapted, we might add. To commemorate this, and to cash in on the click bait, we’ll be talking the movies, books, and legacy of all things Dune.... And like all things Dune, lots of things are left out and the ending is sort of rushed and abrupt.

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 4:45 - Halloween Kills (2021)
 | 13:00 - Shaft (1971), Shaft’s Big Score! (1972), Shaft In Africa (1973)
 | 19:45 - The Batman (2022) trailer
 | 23:26 - Midnight In Washington (Schiff, Adam - 2021)
 | 30:00 - Dune

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Toto - Main Title - Dune
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies - Halloween Kills (Main Title)
 | Mike Dupree - Shaving Cream
 | Isaac Hayes - Theme from “Shaft”
 | Gordon Parks - Blowin’ Your Mind (feat. O.C. Smith) [Shaft’s Big Score! Main Title]
 | Nirvana - Something In The Way (from The Batman Trailer)
 | 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
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Hans Zimmer - Armada - Dune
 | Clips from Dune (1984), Dune (2021)

Episode 203 - Dune for Dummies by Dummies

Clint Eastwood and his ape best friend, Clyde, travel the American West in search of love and fistfights.  At least that’s what we think this so-called 1978 blockbuster comedy was about. It’s a shambolic, terminally unfunny mess of a film about toxic masculinity and bad country music, as far as we could decipher.  It is also Eastwood’s weirdest film ever, one we thought would be an enjoyable lark. You’d think pairing the Man With No Name with an orangutan for some hijinks would be a no-brainer.  You’d be dead wrong.  That this was one of the highest-grossing movies the year it was released ultimately left us wondering:  WTF was up with 1978?

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 4:00  - The Exploring Series https://youtube.com/c/TheExploringSeries / The SCP Foundation (YouTube): https://youtu.be/cZXd5d4VVEY
 | 9:25 - ABBA Voyaga and ABBA: The Concert
 | 15:55 - Eternals (2021)
 | 27:55 - The Sparks Brothers (2021)
 | 31:30 - Every Which Way But Loose (1978)

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Eddie Rabbit - Every Which Way But Loose
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Clip from The SCP Foundation
 | ABBA - Don’t Shut Me Down
 | ABBA: The Concert - Knowing Me Knowing You (Live)
 | ABBA - Keep an Eye on Dan
 | Ramin Djawadi - Eternals Theme
 | Clip From Parks and Recreation
 | Sparks - Dick Around
 | Sparks - Eaten By The Monster of Love
 | Sparks - Tarzan and Jane
 | Sparks - Mustache
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Clip from Every Which Way But Loose (Sexy Sex Scene Soundtrack)
 | Jerry Reed - Eastbound and Down

Episode 205 - Every Which Way But Loose (Any Which Movie But This…)

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

It’s our Ultimate 80s ‘Copter Throwdown!  The premise is simple:  Who would win in a fight between Blue Thunder and Airwolf?  The answer is more difficult, especially if you have no idea what Blue Thunder or Airwolf are.  Just know that back in the early 1980’s, movies and TV shows had a fascination with super-advanced tech applied to cars, trucks, planes, trains, motorcycles, and, yes…. Helicopters!  Before smartphones and ChatGPT, we had super action! Which brings us back to the premise… pitting a super-creepy police urban surveillance machine against a super-secret advanced military weapon flown by two private-sector schmos.  Get to da choppa!


4:30 - The Why Files (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/@TheWhyFiles
13:00 - Mission Hill (1999)
17:28 - Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1
25:45 - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
36:10 - Airwolf vs Blue Thunder

Episode 272 - Blue Thunder V. Airwolf: Ultimate 80s ‘Copter Throwdown

This week, we break down the career of David Cronenberg in three acts. The thing is, there’s little you can say about David Cronenberg that makes sense. He’s a filmmaker who makes horror films, kinda. He has a preoccupation with body horror, sort of. Really he’s interested in people’s obsessions - what we can’t do without, even if we won’t admit it to ourselves. I think. It’s tough to say - like all great artists, he defies simple explanation. So of course, we’re going to try.

04:45 - Zombie Houses and The Ugliest House In America
12:45 - The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix)
18:50 - M*A*S*H*
20:15 - Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Book)
22:42 - The Troop (Book)
24:55 - Bottom (BBC)
27:55 - David Cronenberg

Episode 281 - David Cronenberg: A Career in 3 Acts

In honor of the new movie musical version that no one asked for, we present another classic MagHuge episode!

Two cliques enter, one clique leaves... Welcome to the High School Movie Grudge Match Thunderdome! We pitch 80’s black-comedy classic Heathers against 00’s teen classic Mean Girls in a head-to-head battle for ultimate Snark Supremacy!  How Very.  That’s So Fetch.  Oh, and ⅔ of our crew had never actually watched Mean Girls before, but all of us have been quoting Heathers for decades so it’s okay. Was our Genx-X bias shattered by the popular Millennial challenger?  F*#& me gently with a chainsaw, you’ll just have to listen to this podcast and find out! 

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 4:24 - Raw Deal (1986)
 | 9:55 - The Umbrella Academy Season 2 (Netflix, 2020)
 | 15:55 - Legion
 | 18:55 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
 | 26:05 - Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Nintendo, 2020)
 | 28:30 - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - Kimmy vs. The Reverend (Netflix, 2019)
 | 31:27 - Mean Girls (2004) vs. Heathers (1989)

RERUN - Heathers Vs. Mean Girls

Released in 1969, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is a fun little cult sci-fi film. If you’re familiar with “Thunderbirds,” you’ll recognize the cool use of model special effects used here. The short sell - this is a fun romp through what the future could have been like. The long sell - well, if they had hired actual writers with talent to lay this sucker out, it would have been a classic. As it is, it’s a paper-thin premise with a paper-thin payoff, that ends in a very dark way, but has cool-ass spaceships. Yay!

3:56 - Letterkenny (final season, 2023)
10:20 - Reacher (Amazon Prime)
16:50 - Doctor Who (2023)
23:30 - Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)
32:35 - The Wiz (Broadway)
38:05 - For All Mankind
40:40 - Journey to the Far Side of the Sun / Doppelganger (1969)

Episode 288 - Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

Blazing Saddles is a comedy classic given to us by Mel Brooks way back in 1974 and we are going to celebrate the 50th Anniversary accordingly… with copious amounts of vulgarity, fart jokes and meta-humor on top of an angry, socially conscious satire of race relations in America.  That’s right, Blazing Saddles is a foundational film comedy that is not afraid to make you laugh while also making you uncomfortable.  So buckle up, cowpokes, and join us for a celebration that is sure to make you send us even more hate mail!  Thank you, Mel Brooks, for the decades of laughter!


0:00 - Eric’s trip to Japan
10:00 - Brian’s work trip to India
20:30 - Sid and Marty Krofft shows on Tubi
21:20 - The Bay City Rollers Show
29:00 - Rick and Morty (season 7)
33:45 - American Fiction (2023)
38:25 - UFO (1970) and Space:1999 (1975)
41:55 - Blazing Saddles (1974)

Brian’s India traffic video: https://youtu.be/oQwRNcVZ434
Brian’s India fast food video: https://youtu.be/vad9eFKz2Xw

Episode 289 - Blazing Saddles 50th Anniversary Hoedown

Welcome to the Technical Difficulties Edition of yet another amazing Freshitravaganza show, wherein we have an ad hoc discussion about literally whatever dumb stuff pops into our heads!  Funny story… We tried to do a show wherein we savaged Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, his latest mirthless sci-fi IP starter. But all our tech went bonkers early without us realizing it and we lost everything but the Fresh Sh!t at the beginning.  So we decided to cut our losses, keep that bit and expand it into a better, full-length show. Because no way were we giving Rebel Moon a do over. Nope. 

4:45 - Fizz
9:50 - Good Burger 2 (2023)
13:25 - I Hate Suzie (Max)
18:40 - Blue Beetle (2023)
24:50 - Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon (2023)
30:00 - Green Dot Aviation
41:35 - Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
47:40 - Napoleon
48:40 - Pop Will Eat Itself, Jesus Jones, EMF and other Grebo acts
53:44  - The Beekeeper (2024)

Auralnauts Zack Snyder’s Star Wars: https://youtu.be/J9X_FmCbrIA?si=JpDkiOUhH0rjZxUi
Green Dot Aviation: https://www.youtube.com/@GreenDotAviation

Episode 290 -  Freshitravaganza: Technical Difficulties Edition

This week Brian made the MagHuge crew revisit the 1990 Warren Beatty magnum opus “Dick Tracy.” Will it stand the test of time? Will hijinks ensue? Will Chris and Eric drink hemlock? There’s only one way to find out!

0:00 - Intros
5:51 - Mr. Robot
13:30 - Japanese Precision Walking
16:15 - Kabaddi
20:39 - AR / VR
26:50 - Freaks VS The Reich
32:10 - Dick Tracy (1990)

Episode 291 - Dick Tracy

Ever seen a movie or show and thought, “Wow - they sure got that wrong!” It could have been good, but they missed the point. Or maybe you had a better point in mind. That’s the theme of this week’s show - why not remake these things that were almost good? As long as everything else gets remade every five years, here are some projects that decidedly deserve to be correctly done.

0:00 - Intros
4:30 - Dicks The Musical
12:12 - Northern Exposure
17:45 - Wild Isles
20:20 - Fargo (season 5)
28:40 - I Can’t Believe They Didn’t Remake This Already

Episode 292 - I Can't Believe This Hasn't Been Remade Yet

Time again for yet another 80’s film retrospective!  The year 1987 does not automatically spring to mind when one thinks of classic cinema.  At first glance it is kind of meh, which is not surprising given that Three Men and a Baby was the top earner that year.  But upon closer inspection, 1987 has a crap-ton of stealthily influential flicks buried within.  Yup, 1987 is the year that gave us Evil Dead 2, RoboCop, Princess Bride, Lethal Weapon, The Untouchables, Withnail & I, Raising Arizona, River’s Edge, Predator, Spaceballs… this list goes on.  We’re just as shocked as you are!  So we’re giving props to a stealth year for stone-cold classics - 1987!

Example of Scared Ketchup’s The Trump Show: https://youtu.be/4syP4lA3Q0Y?si=cLHzjzoo-Nw_fAQX

4:30 - Scared Ketchup - The Trump Show
11:10 - State Of The Union Address
15:35 - Euphoria (Max)
22:05 - Elektra
25:50 - The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989)
28:10 - Dempsey and Makepeace (1985)
34:00 - 1987 in movies

Episode 293 - 1987, A Stealth Year For Classic Movies

Before there was Nightmare on Elm Street, before there was Inception, there was Dreamscape!  This under-the-radar sci-fi/action/thriller/romance from 1984 was a heady mix of genres, and while it was the first notable film to feature a storyline about people entering the dreams of others to help or harm, it has gone largely unnoticed in the last 40 years.  But it beat Freddy and Christopher Nolan to the punch, which makes it a noteworthy thing to discuss.  Starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max Von Sydow, Christopher Plummer and an analog stop-motion evil Snake Man with legs and arms (don’t ask),  Dreamscape is an oddity that fell through the cracks. Let’s dust it off and see if Freud and Jung were right all along….

3:30 - The 80s Cruise(Sheena Easton, Wang Chung, Air Supply, Soft Cell, Midnight Star, Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, My Posse In Effect)
26:20 - The Gentleman
28:40 - Swan Song (book)
33:00 - Dreamscape (1984)

Episode 294 - Dreamscape

Episode 295 - Train to Busan

2016 was the middle of the zombie pandemic. “What?” I hear you say, despite that being impossible. “There was a zombie apocalypse?” There sure was - in theaters! And 2016 was right smack dab in the middle of a bunch of great zombie films. That year saw “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” and “The Girl with All the Gifts,” which were great in their own ways. However they pale in comparison to this genre-homage from South Korea, a sort of “Die Hard” on a train with zombies. Un-Die Hard? No, not Un-Die Hard. That is stupid. Skip that…

0:00 - Intros
6:20 - Dream Scenario (2024)
11:55 - Rick and Morty season 7
16:50 - Mr Robot
27:50 - Argylle (2024)
31:20 - Roadhouse (2024)
(36:44 - FSBUMP)
36:55 - Train To Busan (2016)

Episode 295 - Train To Busan

Hard to believe that a Cold War satire about Mutually Assured Destruction through a nuclear holocaust could still pack a punch 60 years after its release.  But that’s exactly what happened with Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant dark comedy, Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop  Worrying and Love the Bomb.  Starring Peter Sellers in a virtuoso 3-role performance as the titular insane scientist, a by-the-book RAF officer, and a milquetoast President, this one is arguably Kubrick’s best effort. Which sounds like a challenge for debate that we shall now have… NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!

5:00 - Ricky Stanicky (2024)
12:30 - Dune Part Two (2024)
23:50 - Late Night with the Devil (trailer)
25:10 - Shipwreck videos found on YouTube
31:30 - Shogun (Max)
39:14 - Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964)


Episode 296 - Dr. Strangelove Turns 60

In Medias Res means stories that start in the middle of things, or even at the end.  It is a very old narrative device created by the Ancient Greeks that many filmmakers have used to varying degrees of success.  So naturally we thought that deserved a no-holds-barred, incredibly arbitrary Bracket Challenge Battle to the Death!  Behold, our Top 8 movie picks fight it out until they are whittled down to the last film standing.  Maybe there is a prize given?  But really, aren’t we all winners here?

0:00 - Intros
5:55 - Fallout (Amazon)
12:30 - Ripley (Netflix)
16:10 - Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire
25:20 - Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
33:00 - In Medias Res also rams
40:20 - In Medias Res - Best use Bracket
41:15 - Big Dumb Superhero Movies: Deadpool vs Iron Man
44:15 - The Christopher Nolan Mindfuck: The Prestige vs Memento
50:00 - Gen X Blood-soaked Fight To The Death: Reservoir Dogs vs Fight Club
55:10 - Oscar Darlings: Lawrence of Arabia vs Forrest Gump
1:01:20 - Semifinals
1:04:45 - Finals

Episode 297 - In Medias Res Movie Bracket Challenge

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

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

Brazil, the 1985 movie by Terry Gilliam, is a dark-comedy masterpiece that is both a spoof of Orwell’s 1984, but also a brilliant satire of mindless bureaucracy run amok. And it is one of our all-time favorite films. In the world of Brazil, if you are not part of the system, then you are part of the problem. One lonely cog in the machine, a mid-level paper pusher and daydreamer named Sam Lowry, just wants to remain anonymous - until a benign computer mix-up embroils him in a Kafka-esque nightmare to keep his free will and escape with the literal girl of his dreams. The movie’s downer ending was so misunderstood by its corporate-owned studio, Universal, that it kicked off a David and Goliath battle between Gilliam and the studio for the final cut that wound up mirroring many of the themes in the movie itself. To this day there are two versions - the original Gilliam cut and the shorter, neutered “Love Conquers All” studio cut - that present a fascinating case-study in art versus commerce. Full of astounding visuals, a great cast, and a title song you will never forget, Brazil is a groundbreaking film that has only grown in stature and influence over the decades. So watch the thing, already. 

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 6:00 - Succession (HBO)
 | 8:25 - They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
 | 11:36 - Apple Music
 | 13:00 - The Gentlemen (2020)
 | 19:35 - Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
 | 25:15 - Sex Education (Netflix)
 | 28:00 - The Good Place (NBC)
 | 29:12 - VHYes (2019)
 | 32:!5 - Dark Ages: A Miracle Workers Anthology (TBS)

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Geoff & Maria Muldaur - Brazil
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Nicholas Britell - Succession (Main Title Theme)
 | Harry Carlton & J.A. Tunbridge - Mademoiselle from Armentieres
 | Chris Benstead - The Unique Method - The Gentlemen Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
 | Ron Goodwin with The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Unidentified Flying Oddball
 | David Schwartz - The Good Place Opening Music
 | Miracle Workers Dark Ages Theme Song
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Michael Kamen - The Office - Brazil: The Soundtrack
 | Michael Kamen - Ducts - Brazil: The Soundtrack
 | Ray Conniff - Brazil

Episode 123 - Terry Gilliam’s Brazil

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

Before you could call up any comedy special on streaming, before cable TV was bloating with stand-up comics.... There was the “party album.” Comedy sketches and audio laughs on a circular slab of vinyl. This week we dive headlong into the lost art of comedy albums. 

We also saved a bunch of these albums that are all available on YouTube. If you want to listen to any or all of them, check it out here: https://bit.ly/2XrCJea 

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 7:30 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
 | 9:45 - Prince & the Revolution Live
 | 14:00 - Scoob! (2020)
 | 16:00 - Valley Girl Musical (2020)
 | 22:50 - Nailed It! (Netflix)
 | 24:14 - Mary Sues
 | 29:55 - The Great (Hulu)
 | 32:42 - Dune (book)
 | 37:17 - Responding To Listeners
 | 40:00 - Comedy Albums

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | R.E.M. - King of Comedy (808 State Remix)
 | !!! - Shit Scheisse Merde, Pt. 1 / Thomas Bangalter, 113 - 113 Fout la Merde
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Halli Cauthery - Future Man Theme
 | Mahito Yokota, Ryo Nagamatsu, Koji Kondo - Theme of Super Mario Galaxy 2
 | C+C Music Factory - Things That Make You Go Hmmm
 | Clip from Prince & the Revolution Live!
 | Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
 | Jessica Rothe, Chloe Bennet & Valley Girl Cast - Kids in America
 | Josh Whitehouse - Take On Me
 | Josh Whitehouse & Mae Whitman - I Melt With You (Duet)
 | Music from The Great
 | Bomani “D’mite” Armah - Read A Book
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Steve Martin - A Wild and Crazy Guy
 | Bill Cosby - To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With
 | Eddie Murphy - Homosexuals
 | Official National Lampoon Stereo Test and Demonstration Record
 | Chevy Chase - I Shot The Sheriff
 | George Carlin - I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die
 | Adam Sandler - Oh Mom…
 | Adam Sandler - Ode to My Car
 | The Jerky Boys - Fava Beans
 | The Firesign Theatre - Nick Danger in “Lucky Liability”
 | Negativland - Ask Pastor Dick - Muriel’s Purse Fund
 | Rick Moranis - A Day in the Life
 | Chevy Chase - Nat’l Anthem
 | Chevy Chase - Let It Be

Episode 137 - The Lost Art of the Comedy Record

The Cold War came to an end in 1989.  A year later, Hollywood gave it a grand send-off with an adaptation of Tom Clancy’s breakout techno-thriller, The Hunt for Red October.  Set in 1984 at the height of US-Soviet tensions, the movie slaps a fresh coat of paint on the classic Cold War tropes to do for submarines what Top Gun did for jets.  The chase is on to find a rogue USSR nuclear sub trying to defect to the USA before the Motherland can blow it out of the water.  Director John McTiernan was fresh off his insane run of stone cold 80’s classics Predator and Die Hard, and here turns in his third consecutive winner.  Starring Sean Connery, Sam Neill, Tim Curry, James Earl Jones, and Scott Glenn - plus Alec Baldwin in his breakout role as the first (and best) Jack Ryan - The Hunt for Red October is a taut, fun ride from start to finish and the perfect coda for an era. So let’s take a deep dive on it, shall we?  

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 4:35 - Gerry Anderson’s Stingray (1964)
 | 12:10 - 7500 (2019)
 | 17:45 - Videogame announcement substitutes for E3 (Guerrilla Collective, PC Gaming Show, Future Games Show)
 | 24:27 -  Crazy World (2014)
 | 30:20 - The Hunt for Red October (1990)

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Basil Poledouris - Nuclear Scam - The Hunt for Red October
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Gerry Anderson’s Stingray - Opening Titles
 | Gerry Anderson’s Stingray - Aqua Marina 
 | Trailer for Crazy World
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Basil Poledouris - Kaboom!!! - The Hunt for Red October
 | Basil Poledouris - Hymn to Red October (Main Title) - The Hunt for Red October

Episode 141 - The Hunt For Red October

By the Power of Grayskull!  We open up the Listener Mailbag to grab a suggestion (Thanks!) and tackle one of the most iconic bits of 80’s  pop culture ever - He-Man and the Masters of the Universe!  
The genius of it all is that Mattel (home of Barbie and Hot Wheels) figured out how to syndicate a 30-minute infomercial for toys by disguising it as a daily cartoon adventure that was part Conan the Barbarian, part Flash Gordon.  And kids ate it up to the tune of over $1-billion. By 1987 the bottom dropped out, just in time for a Masters of the Universe movie from the schlockmeisters at Cannon Films!  Sadly, the ill-conceived project was a huge flop (sorry, Dolph Lundgren), mostly because it ignored what made the source material so popular in the first place.  Yet He-Man’s legacy remains.  Join us as we talk toons, toys, and possible new feature films. Then repeat your daily mantra: I HAVE THE POWER!  

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 7:34 - Robocop 2 (1990) and Robocop 3 (1993)
 | 10:20 - The Death of Stalin (2017)
 | 13:30 - Floor is Lava (Netflix, 2020)
 | 15:23 - The Eternal Cylinder and Bugsnax
 | 19:30 - Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
 | 23:30 - Watchmen (HBO, 2020) SPOILER DISCUSSION
 | 33:15 - He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | Shuki Levy, Haim Saban - “He-Man’s Theme”
 | The Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit
 | Nitzer Ebb - Join in the Chant
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Basil Poledouris - Drive Montage - RoboCop
 | Christopher Willis - Moscow, 1953 - The Death of Stalin
 | The Eternal Cylinder - Official Strange New World Trailer
 | Kero Kero Bonito - Bugsnax
 | Ollie & Jerry - Electric Boogaloo
 | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam
 | Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - A Stronger, Loving World - Watchmen Vol. 03
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Eminem - Venom
 | Bill Conti - Masters of the Universe Main Theme
 | SlackCircus - Fabulous Secret Powers

Original ‘Fabulous Secret Powers’ video from slackcircus: https://youtu.be/FR7wOGyAzpw

Original ‘Cancelled “He-Man movies | 1989-2018’ video from  Supervoid Cinema: https://youtu.be/GiuJlnJZ9lU

Episode 142 - He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

When you sit down to a movie called Killer Klowns From Outer Space, you pretty much know what to expect.  This cult B-movie from 1988 is both a glorious tribute and giant middle finger to the classic alien invader movies from the 50’s we all loved as kids. Only this time, it’s murderous Klowns™ who have landed on Earth to harvest humanity for food! Played with tongue firmly in cheek, this film by special effects wizards The Chiodo Brothers is not scary or tense at all (and barely even funny most of the time, if we’re truly honest).  But it IS way more inventive than any movie titled Killer Klowns From Outer Space has any right to be.  And for that alone we salute it. Plus, it has what we consider to be one of the greatest theme songs of all time by fave L.A. punk icons, The Dickies!  So sit back and get a pie in the face with our big, stupid podcast celebration about yet another crap movie we may actually kinda like. 

 | 0:00 - Intros
 | 4:33 - Judy (2019)
 | 8:55 - Innerspace (1987)
 | 13:25 - Song Exploder (Netflix, 2020)
 | 16:30 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
 | 19:50 - Staged (2020)
 | 23:50 - Phantasm (1979)
 | 28:30 - Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

 | Clips
 | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
 | The Dickies - Killer Klowns
 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
 | Renee Zellweger & Sam Smith - Get Happy
 | Jerry Goldsmith - Gut Reaction - Innerspace soundtrack
 | Leslie Odom Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Wait for It
 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Angry Inch
 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Wig In a Box
 | Lambeth Wind Orchestra - Alex Baranowski - Music from Staged
 | Horror Movie Theme Orchestra - Phantasm
 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
 | Clips from Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
 | John Massari - Killer Klown March

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