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This week on Magnificently Huge, we saddle up for Disney's 2013 megabudget reboot of The Lone Ranger. This movie answers the important questions for Disney at the time, such as “What are we doing?” and “Should we just buy Marvel and Lucasfilm?”It’s a movie about cannibals and cultural appropriation starring cannibals and cultural appropriators. What could possibly go wrong?0:00 - Intros + Buc-ees 10:25 - Spider Noir (Amazon Prime)14:55 - Interior Chinatown (Hulu)19:20 - From (season 4)23:25 - Rapid Fire (1992)28:00 - Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025)34:20 - The Lone Ranger (2013)
From the master of self-indulgence, Francis Ford Coppola presents a very expensive sophomore year at art school final project. What is it about? Insert shrugging emoji here. He sold his winery to make this thing. So… whatever. (Do you think he hired someone else to make The Godfather?) 0:00 - Intros11:05 - Godzilla Minus One (2023)18:00 - The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky) 19:55 - Disclosure Day (2026)27:20 - Last One Laughing30:10 - Megalopolis
Honestly, they had us at “a new movie by Gore Verbinski starring Sam Rockwell.” This gonzo 2025 sci-fi comedy satire adventure about timeloops and saving humanity from extinction by AI slop is ultimately a giant swing for the fences, and we are perturbed that it didn’t do as well as it should have theatrically. Tucked within its Black Mirror-like structure is all the angst of our modern world, that asks whether or not we can save ourselves through a renewed sense of shared community interaction. Or else it is just a loosely stitched script of big ideas that tries too hard to throw flashy existential spaghetti at the wall and only some of it sticks. Either way, prepare for our spoiler-laden discussion about what this kinetic film does right, where it goes awry, and whether or not it sticks the landing. Welcome back, Mr. Verbinski, where ya been!?!0:00 - Intros8:45 - Hacks final season (HBO)17:15 - The Terror: Devil in Silver (AMC)25:05 - Artifact (Benford, Gregory)27:25 - Chicano Frankenstein (Olivas, Daniel)37:30 - Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die
Fire (To Be Celestial vs That's the Weight of the World) (HBO)13:45 - Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion 16:05 - Masters of the Universe (2026)28:35 - Euphoria (HBO)38:50 - Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)
In 1985, Sam Raimi and the Coen Brothers were hot off their breakout indie debuts (Evil Dead and Blood Simple, respectively) and got their first shot at a studio film with a budget. What we got was one of the craziest, trainwreckiest movies of all time - Crimewave! How this one didn’t tank their careers into oblivion remains a great mystery, but suffice that if Raimin didn’t have such an awful experience with extreme studio meddling on this one, we would have likely never gotten Evil Dead II and everything after. Crimewave exists as an oddity for us film buffs, to be sure - a terrible movie with lightning flashes of the genius to come later. But should you watch it? We are still undecided on that point, tbh.0:00 - Intros4:55 - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Dramas13:55 - Classic Doctor Who (Britbox, etc)29:30 - Crime Wave
A young boy in 1950s suburbia suspects that his parents might be cannibalistic serial murderers… but are they really? Join us for a look at one of our favorite cult films of all time - “Parents.” Randy Quaid leads a solid cast in this pitch black horror-comedy satire that explores Boomer America, an era that was apparently one giant bag of repressed ugliness simmering beneath the facade of white picket fences, cocktails and nuclear family dynamics. And cannibalism. Believe us when we say, this one is flippin’ DARK. But also sooooooo good. “What were they before they were leftovers?” “They were leftovers-to-be…” 0:00 - Intros11:00 - The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)22:10 - Mortal Kombat II (2026)27:45 - The Bride! (2025)34:50 - Fawlty Towers37:05 - Barney Miller42:55 - Parents (1989)
Frailty (2001) is a psychological thriller about fathers, sons, and demons. This wacky film seems to have been lost to time, as no one ever talks about it, and it hasn’t gained any cult following. Still, it has a creepy atmosphere, a killer cast, and did I mention it’s Bill Paxton’s directorial debut? 0:00 Intros13:30 - How to Get to Heaven from Belfast18:30 - Taskmaster Series 1924:10 - Frailty (2001)
This week on Magnificently Huge, we crank the dials back to 1927 and dive into Metropolis, the granddaddy of sci-fi cinema where the future is shiny, oppressive, and apparently run by people who’ve never met a labor law they liked.Directed by Fritz Lang, this silent-era spectacle somehow predicted everything: towering megacities, massive class divides, dehumanizing technology, and robot doubles designed to manipulate the masses. You know, just your standard Tuesday in 2026.Join us as we marvel at the spectacle, question the message, and nervously eye our devices. Because if Metropolis taught us anything, it’s that the future is amazing… right up until it replaces you.0:00 - Intros4:40 - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice16:30 - Patrick H Willems on legacy sequelsAnatomy of a Legacy Sequel: https://youtu.be/jvXZYxpjHKU?si=SN26rO3pEVgDTKh9Have we Reached Peak Legacy Sequel?: https://youtu.be/ZGyyy3Old9A?si=ay7hqjFW0386PHFd20:00 - Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen25:30 - History Quest https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryQuestChannel 30:35 - Metropolis (1927)
Q: Who you gonna call?A: Ghostbusters! Duh!Let’s lighten the mood a bit as we finally jibber-jabber about one of the greatest foundational movies of all time - Ghostbusters! If you’ve never seen this blockbuster comedy/sci-fi/adventure mashup from 1984, we have to ask - What rock have you been living under? With a stacked cast of Second City and SNL superstars, some of the most quotable lines ever, and a marketing synergy for the ages, Ghostbusters is a perennial favorite here at the show. If you don’t enjoy its innumerable charms, you are dead inside. So strap on a proton pack as we join Stantz, Venkman, Spengler and Zeddemore to save humanity from an army of angry ghosts released by Gozer the Gozerian, a couple of demon dogs and of course, the Staypuft Marshmallow Man. Up is down, black is white, dogs and cats living together….Mass hysteria! 0:00 - Intros6:30 - Paradise (Hulu)9:35 - The Beauty17:15 - P1uribus21:30 - Fallout25:15 - One Piece 31:35 - Taken38:35 - Ghostbusters (1984)
magnetic-tape data storage ran super computers the size of mountains and still couldn’t do half of what your iPhone does now.0:00 - Intros7:40 - Billy Idol Should Be Dead (Hulu, 2025)15:15 - Project Hail Mary (2026)28:30 - Fiend Without A Face (1958) 34:40 - Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Ever watch a movie and absolutely hated it, only to revisit it again later to discover you actually kinda like it now? That’s the rules for today, kids! Pick the media that left you angry… that sorta made you happy the next try. It's a low bar, certainly, but it has happened to us a few times over the years. We get it, tastes change, life circumstances shift, and dare we say that one even matures a bit? This obviously doesn’t apply to “Titanic,” though. That one will always be hot garbage. But that “Speed” movie… that one really grew into its own, did it not? 0:00 - Intros4:00 - The 80s Cruise 202615:30 - Christian James Hand 17:00 - Urgh! A Musical War21:45 - Daredevil Born Again (2025)28:00 - Gary and his Demons30:40 - Have you ever watched a movie where you hated it and appreciated it later?
This week on Magnificently Huge, we slip into something a little more… 90s, as we revisit the Wachowskis’ pre-Matrix directorial debut, Bound. The film somehow manages to be equal parts Hitchcock, Coen Brothers, and late-night cable energy.Is Bound a feminist noir? A crime thriller with benefits? Or just a really good excuse to watch terrible people make worse decisions in increasingly confined spaces?Join us as we follow the money, question everyone’s judgment, and celebrate a film that proves sometimes the best way out… is through the drywall.0:00 - Intros4:25 - Nintendo Gamecube and Virtual Boy15:20 - Fackham Hall (2026)23:40 - God’s Favorite Idiot26:45 - The Traitors32:00 - Bound (1996)
Eddington is the perfect film for our times. Everyone’s terrified, everyone wants the glory of being the one who saves the world, and nobody is listening to anyone else. That’s America in a nutshell: Everyone arguing about who gets to decide where to aim the fire hose while the house burns down. What fun, right!?!0:00 - Intros10:55 - Cory Doctorow and Enshittification19:30 - Dungeon Crawler Carl29:15 - Weapons (2025)32:00 - Steely Dan - Two Against Nature34:05 - Eddington (2025)Here’s a link to the analysis Brian mentioned: https://filmobsessive.com/film/film-analysis/eddington-a-deep-delve-into-ari-asters-national-nightmare/
This week we return to the tiny town of Blaine, Missouri to revisit Christopher Guest’s 1996 mockumentary Waiting for Guffman in observance of the passing of the incomparable Catherine O'Hara.It’s either one of the sharpest, sweetest skewers of small-town ambition ever put to film, or a dull snoozefest! Which is it for you? Are you a Chris or a Brian? And how does it stack up against the rest of the oeuvre this cast would subsequently produce? There’s only one way to find out, and that’s to listen to yet another action packed podcast!0:00 - Intros3:20 - Clue (Broadway touring)13:50 - Song Sung Blue (2025)20:40 - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO)27:35 - Furiosa (2024)32:10 - Predator: Badlands (2025)42:30 - Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Caro. Or maybe “The Babadook” if done by Terry Gilliam. But really it is “Dust Bunny” written and directed by Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Hannibal) and starring Mads Mikkelsen. It is a rare original film these days, delightful and fun and one that has helped restore our faith in the power of cinema. Yea verily.Here’s a link to the Gen X psychology video Eric references: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5YmIqYSqA00:00 - Intros9:10 - A PSA about not falling for conspiracy bots12:05 - The Running Man (2025)20:35 - Star Trek: Starfleet Academy27:40 - Bugonia (2025)33:25 - AI Artificial Intelligence (2001)41:15 - Dust Bunny (2025)
“One Battle After Another” is the latest film by Paul Thomas Anderson, and it is neither too obtuse to understand nor boring. The latest of Paul Thomas Anderson’s work that stylistically makes its point, without getting all up its own ass about said style. (I’m looking at you, Wes Anderson!) It is definitely a movie made for our times, like it or. not.0:00 - Intros8:15 - Mel Brooks: the 99 Year Old Man!13:00 - The Wrecking Crew (2026)18:40 - The 90’s Cruise40:50 - One Battle After Another (2025)
You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. And maybe some heartburn. Because “Twilight Zone: The Movie” has absolutely no reason to exist, yet here we are. Back in the early 80s Hollywood thought it was a slam-dunk idea: Take established hitmakers Steven Spielberg and John Landis, plus up-and-comers Joe Dante and George Miller, to make an anthology film based on Rod Serling’s classic, groundbreaking TV series. What could go wrong? Quite a lot, actually, mostly thanks to the tragic accidental death of veteran actor Vic Morrow and two young Vietnamese children while filming under Landis. From then on, the luster was gone and Spielberg mostly phoned it in. But oh what joy to watch Dante and Miller crush it with their segments, remakes of fan favorite episodes that stood out in every good way possible. Still, one sees this movie now and has to wonder: Why? 0:00 - Intros4:20 - Supergirl and Avengers trailers and the AI fakes12:10 - Anaconda (2025) 18:40 - Ludwig (BBC)24:45 - Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 234:40 - Twilight Zone: The Movie
Another year, another heaping helping of the Fresh Shit! Our annual tradition of kicking off the New Year with a full show discussing the movies, YouTube channels, and shows that we’ve been enjoying! If we released this the week we recorded it, we’d even be topical!0:00 - Intros4:20 - Guard The Leaf https://www.youtube.com/@GuardTheLeaf 4:50 - Let’s get the political stuff out of our system22:40 - Munoma Music https://www.youtube.com/@munomamusic/shorts25:45 - The Melon Collies (where’s my fuckin bus) https://youtu.be/L3Ab-U_nT6o?si=yeEb_o2hXMP9OOHN 27:15 - Taskmaster https://www.youtube.com/c/Taskmaster29:55 - The Goes Wrong Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqW3_AZRSlw32:10 - 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown33:40 - Kitboga https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw38:55 - Paddington In Peru (2024)44:45 - The Phoenician Scheme (2025)50:25 - Wake Up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)55:40 - Now You See Me Now You Don’t (2025)1:01:55 - One Battle After Another (2025)1:10:55 - Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025)1:12:40 - Plur1bus
Brian finally brings his binge of all the Bond films to a close with this ranking episode. After subjecting himself to 60+ years of shaken martinis, disposable Bond girls, and increasingly questionable theme songs, Brian drags Chris and Eric into the fray to debate the best, the worst, and the Roger Moore-iest of the bunch. It’s the longest-running franchise in cinema history, and we’ve got takes for days. So polish your Walther PPK, adjust your cufflinks, and prepare to be both shaken and stirred.0:00 - Intros7:10 - Josh Johnson10:00 - Shucked (Broadway touring company)14:30 - Plur1bus17:45 - Andor23:05 - I Like Me (John Candy doc)27:20 - Local Reality and the Nobel Prize32:00 - Tron Ares soundtrack36:20 - James Bond Films Ranked
There were a LOT of movies released in the 1990’s, cultural touchstones and zeitgeist titles that everyone still seems to talk about at the proverbial watercooler (insert dumb Pulp Fiction quote here). But every so often a big movie from the era will come up in conversation that we may not have seen and we are unable to contribute anything but anger, confusion or disappointment to the proceedings. Without further ado, here is our chat about some blockbuster movies from the 90s the entire world has seen, except for us. That’s right, a whole podcast about stuff we’ve never watched. Because reasons.0:00 - Intros7:45 - Our Spotify Top Listens for 202513:00 - Phantogram17:25 - Alice In Chains10:10 - Doug Standhope18:34 - Wet Leg24:25 - Our top 5 Artists25:05 - Louis CK26:00 - LeTigre26:45 - Gary Numan28:15 - The Beths30:00 - Depeche Mode31:20 - Blur32:09 - Eagles33:05 - Garbage33:53 - Rocket34:50 - Pink Floyd38:30 - Missed It! 90’s Blockbuster Edition40:45 - Twister44:05 - The Sixth Sense49:05 - The Mummy 52:55 - Titanic58:20 - Rush Hour 1:01:45 - The Disney Renaissance1:05:30 - The Rock1:08:05 - Armageddon1:16:15 - Ransom1:15:50 - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
This week on Magnificently Huge, Brian makes Chris and Eric sit through the 2025 Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man.We dig into this weird, high-gloss fever dream of a film that's part jukebox musical, part psychological spiral, and part Bohemian Rhapsody with fewer teeth and more self-pity. There are scenes with Robbie talking to his younger self, scenes with Robbie fighting invisible demons, and scenes where we all started to wonder if this was some sort of elaborate dare.Join us as we try to figure out who this movie is for, whether narcissism can be considered a cinematic genre, and if Better Man is actually performance art disguised as a biopic—or just punishment from the pop gods.
There are a lot of noir crime thrillers in the world, but most modern ones have a problem digging too deeply into the noir part of the equation. “Killing them softly” does away with the winding plot and instead gives a simple premise, with a simple resolution, and a world so real in its crappiness you can kind of smell it. Maybe it’s a grime thriller? It’s certainly the best at it if you’re into this sort of thing. 0:00 - Intros3:30 - Monster: The Ed Gein story (Netflix, 2025)7:35 - Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (Peacock, 2025)9:35 - Little Evil (Netflix, 2017)12:45 - Palm Royale (Apple TV)20:00 - Dune pts. 1 and 2 (2021, 2024)33:45 - Killing Them Softly
Join us for a look at the underrated Troma classic from 1992, Frankenhooker! What could a movie called Frankenhooker possibly be about, you ask? Don’t be stupid, it’s literally about a STEM weirdo from New Jersey who loses his girlfriend in a freak accident, only to bring her back by sewing her head onto a body stitched together from the parts of dead prostitutes. Duh. And it is one of the more astoundingly entertaining things we have all watched in months! Like, stupidly entertaining. Like, more enjoyable than any movie this dumb has a right to be. Let it wash over you like a sea of calm… and gore… and bare breasts for no reason other than this is a B-movie with the ingenious title of Frankenhooker. Wanna date?0:00 - Intros4:50 - Fantastic Four: First Steps and Thunderbolts14:30 - Legion21:20 - Prey25:25 - Alien Earth31:35 - Frankenhooker
This week, we view Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)—a film that dares to ask: what if Dracula were horny, operatic, and deeply confused about accents?With Keanu Reeves giving the most unintentionally British performance ever committed to celluloid (bless him, he tried), Winona Ryder looking vaguely confused but still cashing checks, and Gary Oldman chewing scenery like it’s soaked in blood and Oscar nominations, this movie is a visual fever dream you almost forgive for being a narrative mess.We unpack the lush production design, jaw-dropping in-camera effects, shadow puppetry, Monica Bellucci's succubus cleavage, and that iconic armor that looks like a walking anatomy chart. Oh, and monster rape. Because apparently, that was necessary?So join us as we ask the eternal questions: Was this movie genius or a hot mess? (Spoiler: Yes.) And should anyone ever let Keanu attempt an accent again? (Spoiler: No.)Grab your blood goblet, adjust your shadow, and renounce God—it’s time for another Magnificently Huge Podcast!0:00 - Intros6:05 - Cosmic Devolution Tour7:05 - Lene Lovich8:00 - DJ Cummerbund8:45 - DEVO11:20 - The B-52s15:10 - TRON Ares (2025)28:55 - Hell or High Water (2016)30:55 - Tulsa King33:50 - Horror Express (1972)37:10 - Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
What do you get when you take a creatively brilliant director, give him all the leeway he wants, resulting in a film that is a commercial failure but a sleeper hit? You get a very pissed off John Carpenter is what you get. Despite a career of culturally significant awesomeness - “Starman,” “The Thing,” being Adrienne Barbeau’s husband - all it took was some big trouble in Little China for funding to dry up. With that comes the shot-on-a-shoestring horror classic, “Prince of Darkness.” It is an acquired taste, as you will see. As usual, we also talk about a bunch of other stuff we’ve been watching, because this is a podcast, and that’s what you do.0:00 - Intros7:25 - Superman (2025)18:45 - Hacks (HBO)23:20 - The Studio (Apple TV)27:00 - Strange New Worlds (Paramount)29:30 - Robocop: Rogue City (Xbox)36:00 - John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness (1987)
We’re gonna Thelma & Louise the shiznit out of this show with our picks for Best Onscreen Duos! That’s right, from Abbott & Costello to Matthau & Lemmon to Rick & Morty and everything in between, it’s a quasi-intelligent chat about our favorite duos from film and television. What makes a duo dynamic? Which duos are garbage? And how can we possibly cram a reasonable number of onscreen duos into one podcast without making it seem like we came utterly unprepared and instead shout out listicles? From our trio of pieholes direct to your ears, the magic unfolds like Tango & Cash at baby’s first communion… monster trucks and all!0:00 - Intros8:20 - Walking Dead Sequel Shows10:25 - Marvel Zombies14:00 - Honey Don’t (2025)20:25 - The Roses (2025)25:55 - Sisu (2025)30:55 - Best On-Screen Duos
James Bond is on the menu this week, as Brian winds down his journey to watch every canonical movie in sequential order. That means we finally hit up the first appearance of Daniel Craig in the 2006 throwback/reboot/reset adaptation of the very first Ian Fleming novel - Casino Royale! Or did we do the very terrible star-studded psychedelic comedy trainwreck from 1967? Or maybe the Americanized, made-for-TV version from 1954? Confused yet? You won’t be once you listen to our take on the GOOD Casino Royale. 0:00 - Intros3:35 - LCD Soundsystem7:50 - Your Friends and Neighbors (Apple TV+)10:50 - DEVO Documentary (Netflix)21:30 - Weird Al Bigger and Weirder Tour27:55 - Taskmaster34:20 - Casino RoyaleHere is the Patrick (H) Willems take on the Craig Bond Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bNXqwpm-rk&ab_channel=Patrick%28H%29Willems
Ever watch a TV show and simply think, WTF? Oh, sure, there are plenty of new programs out there that make you go hmmmmm…. But we’re focusing more on the ones from further back in the historical record that have managed to become part of the zeitgeist despite (or because of?) their best and weirdest efforts not to. These are the shows that may not have aged well, may not make any sense using a modern context, or simply have no clue how amazingly weird they really are. For every Hill Street Blues, there is always a Cop Rock. For every Modern Family, there is a Brady Bunch. For every… well you get the idea. So here is our very arbitrary, very lazy, and incredibly haphazard look at The Weirdest TV Shows in History!0:00 - Intros5:45 - Liarmouth (Book. Waters, John)13:25 - Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Tomorrow Never Dies39:05 - Weirdest TV Shows to get made, but are popular anyway40:20 Hogan’s Heroes50:40 Gilligan’s Island56:20 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1:03:10 - Friends1:05:50 - Three’s Company
This week, we dissect Death of a Unicorn, the 2025 indie-horror-fantasy-corporate-satire you didn't know you needed. Follow the bizarre journey of a father-daughter duo who hit a unicorn—yes, an actual one—and are promptly dragged into a corporate scramble over who gets to exploit the thing’s magical healing powers first. Because what better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than weaponizing purity, bottling it, and selling it to shareholders?It beats reality anyway. Also, Alien Earth and more James Bond!
Episode 343 - SinnersWe finally take a look at Ryan Coogler’s dynamic, thematically-dense social critique of how the Jim Crow South refuses to die, and the skepticism towards big tent progressivism on certain cultural groups in America. Or maybe Sinners is just a basic vampire tale? We’ll be the judge of that! Just don’t invite any strangers in, or you’ll be sorry. Unless it is us. In which case, you will likely still be sorry. Sinners… it’s good. See it.0:00 - Intros7:30 - The Truth About Jussie Smollett15:30 - Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)25:45 - The Naked Gun (2025) 33:10 - Marc Maron - Panicked (2025) 40:45 - Sinners (2025) SPOILER DISCUSSION
Do the Muppets even carry the same cultural heft now as in their 70s heyday? Who cares? Because there is no movie as pure and joyful and fun as The Muppet Movie, so say us. Jim Henson and Co. took what was best about their TV show and turned it into a road-comedy with heart, an erstwhile origin story of how the Muppets became THE MUPPETS. With lots of classic, catchy bangers by Paul Williams thrown in among the (now dated?) cameos by stars you may not even remember if you are younger than 50. This thing is peak Gen-X, kids. It is also a movie guaranteed to lift your mood - a 90-minute shot of dopamine, serotonin and positivity mainlined into your brainpan by cute and cuddly puppets, all wrapped in a giant, fuzzy warm hug. 0:00 - Intros5:28 - Old Henry (2021)12:15 - Jason Statham movies19:50 - Friday Night Dinner (BBC)23:55 - Starfleet Academy trailer25:30 - The Paragon (2023)28:5 0 - The last 3 Roger Moore James Bond Films (For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill)41:55 - The Muppet Movie
1988’s “I'm Gonna Git You Sucka,” directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, was a sleeper hit at a time when there weren’t a lot of sleeper hits yet. This had a cast of greats from the 70s blaxploitation era, as well as future comedy legends only just getting their first job on a movie. In our ongoing search for comedies from decades ago to see if they’re still funny, we pick this movie apart in painstaking detail. We also talk about James Bond, the MCU, Amazon’s “Heads of State,” and all sorts of cultural silliness. Because that’s our beat. You’re welcome.0:00 - Intros3:15 - Loki season 25:15 - The Franchise10:40 - Heads of State21:50 - The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker35:30 - I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
Michael Mann helped create the 80’s neon-noir & pastel music video aesthetic in TV and films with Miami Vice,Thief and Manhunter. Obviously this would lead to his 1992 movie adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans, a very dull and nigh-unreadable 19th Century adventure romance novel by James Fenimore Cooper. It’s a costume drama set during the French and Indian War starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye, a white dude raised by the Mohicans who gets embroiled in the conflict to save the woman he loves (Madeleine Stowe) from becoming collateral damage. With gorgeous forested vistas, well-staged action, and a sweeping score by Trevor Jones, this one is a weird passion project for Mann, to be sure. But it did surprisingly well at the box office, so I guess that’s something. So stay alive, no matter what occurs… we will podcast about it for you!0:00 - Intros9:35 - Parks and Recreation16:20 - The Traitors NZ20:00 - Thunderbolts* (2025)31:45 - 28 Years Later (2025)39:00 - The Last of the Mohicans (1992)Here’s the Ben Stiller Show clip Eric referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaAC3OppG94
So how does a band like Eagles have such a bad reputation for sucking… and sell THIS MANY ALBUMS!?! The mind boggles. The Beatles sold a lot of records, and people still love those guys. Michael Jackson sold a lot of records, and people forgave him for some really awful stuff I won’t mention lest I get some kind of “flag” from Apple. I’ll just say, “Jesus juice.” Google it. Anyway, Eagles (not “The” Eagles, because reasons,) didn’t interfere with any children, but people hate them all the same these days. Why? With such an impressive list of songs that were not only hits but are still cultural touchstones, how does this band still get the high hat from music fans? Glad you asked, because that’s what we’ll be talking about this week. Plus a lot of other stuff like Star Wars, The John Wickiverse, Wes Anderson, and probably more than you want to know about.3:15 - Andor season 217:20 - Reacher season 323:00 - Ballerina35:50 - The Phoenician Scheme41:20 - Eagles(1:12:00 - Heartache Tonight)End on Don Henley must Die
Let’s quiet things down a bit and hit some introspective vibes with 2003’s indie comedy-drama, The Station Agent. It is the breakout role for Peter “Don’t Call Me Tyrion” Dinklage, as a loner who just wants to remain alone but doesn’t because other humans are around who eventually become his friends… or something. Not a lot happens in this movie, to be honest, but so what? It is supposed to be quiet and sweet and why do you have to make it so difficult to forge new relationships in adulthood? Huh? Because the real journey is the friends we make along the way. Also starring Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale and Michelle Williams, The Station Agent is our Movie of the Week.0:00 - Intros5:43 - The White Lotus (season 3)12:23 - Captain America Brave New World16:00 - Monster: Humanoids from the Deep (1980)19:00 - Thunderbolts* (2025)30:25 - Daredevil Born Again32:13 - Ball of Fire (1941)39:27 - The Station Agent (2003)
So there’s this movie about a woman who’s a spy and kicks a lot of ass and kills people. No, not “Atomic Blonde.” No, not “Ballerina.” And not “Alias” or “Red Sparrow” or “Black Widow” or… okay, maybe not the most original concept. But before all of these things there was “The Long Kiss Goodnight” - the Geena Davis/Renny Harlin attempt to keep working despite one of Hollywood’s most disastrous bombs the year before (Cutthroat Island). Like all of our shows, it’s a wild ride this week! We also cover some music, some James Bond stuff, Mission: Impossible, and America’s attempt to reject monarchy. 5:30 - Trump parade vs No Kings17:35 - Mission: Impossible the Final Reckoning vs the worst of Roger Moore’s James Bond (Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me)33:30 - Negativland: The World Will Decide, Helter Stupid38:50 - Shrek and Madagascar44:25 - The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
It may not be the day-in-the-life movie we wanted, but it was the one we deserved. A 90s-era nostalgia trip to the early 80s, “200 Cigarettes” is notable mostly for its cast of future stars. We also talk about dead parents, nuclear war, James Bond and shooting people to Lionel Ritchie. Because we’re just that freakin’ good.4:40 - Gen Alpha linguistics professor 7:00 - McCurdy, Jennette - I’m Glad My Mom Died (book)13:10 - Jacobsen, Annie - Nuclear War: A Scenario (book)18:00 - Peter Hook and the Light21:20 - James Bond revisited (You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever)38:50 - 200 Cigarettes
Ruthless People is a hilarious gem from the 80s that gets the bizness this round! The last comedy directed jointly by the Airplane! guys, from a script by the guy who wrote Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and My Cousin Vinny, with one of the strongest casts you will ever have the pleasure of seeing perform, it should have become an instant classic. So why did this one get so unceremoniously memory-holed? Is it because, in spite of its tight script and screwball antics, that it happens to also be one of THE MOST 80’S MOVIES EVER MADE? From the production design and costumes to the music that screams 1986, Ruthless People has been forever unable to escape the gravitational force of the Me Decade to languish in semi-obscurity. Which is a damn shame, and we are here today to wrest it from the pit of Lost VHS Classics!
Back in the year 2000, before Vin Diesel exploded into worldwide superstardom with all those car movies, he did a mid-budget B-movie sci-fi oddity called Pitch Black. It’s sort of like if someone remade Aliens with Snake Plissken as the main character, but definitely not as cool as a movie with that description. Oh don’t get us wrong… it has moments of pure fun, to be sure,and it is made well. Faint praise, to be sure. However, it knows exactly what it is at every step of the way, and that is most deserving of our faint praise. Is it an ageless classic? No, but it did somehow spawn several sequels and video games, which is way more than most films of this ilk can say. Pitch Black is a good way to kill 90 minutes, and it will certainly leave you entertained. What more do you want? 0:00 - Intros5:10 - You (Netflix)8:50 - Watch the Twister: Caught in the Storm (2025)13:30 - F1 Trailer15:00 - Sinners20:55 - Moon Walker - Ban This Song22:55 - Puretone - Addicted to Bass23:50 - Drew Behm26:30 - Kanopy streaming service - 50’s comedies (Lavender Hill Mob, The Ladykillers)29:30 - Pitch Black (2000)(35:10 - STROW)(43:00 - Slam song drop - look for earlier instance)
This week, we turn our attention to one of the most gloriously idiotic masterpieces ever committed to film: Steve Martin’s The Jerk (1979). It's a story of rags to riches to rags to a thermos, starring a man who was born a poor Black child and somehow got even more confused from there. We revisit this iconic comedy that launched Martin from stand-up absurdist to full-blown movie star, and unpack why a film this aggressively stupid remains so brilliantly sharp.From Navin Johnson’s wide-eyed journey into the cruel, ridiculous world—complete with disco suits, dog heroism, and the invention of opti-grip—we ask the important questions: Is this still funny? (Yes.) Does it still make us cringe? (Also yes.) And how did they get away with that line?Expect vintage references, a shocking lack of subtlety, and deep appreciation for a movie that manages to satirize class, race, capitalism, and loneliness—mostly by accident. Come for the jokes, stay for the gas station sniper, and leave with a new appreciation for the rhythm method of filmmaking.Because sometimes, you just want to watch a man lose everything except his paddleball game and a chair. And sometimes, that’s enough.0:00 - Intros7:35 - OK Go - “Love” video9:20 - Lady Gaga - Mayhem album15:05 - Thunderball (1965)21:30 - Midcentury Modern (Hulu)25:55 - Vicious (ITV)27:35 - Sexy Beast (Paramount+)33:20 - The Jerk (1979)
In this episode, we take a lighthearted stroll through the charming, not-at-all-horrifying political farce that is The Death of Stalin (2017). We explore how the film hilariously—and totally hypothetically—shows the chaos, sycophancy, and moral collapse that can follow when absolute power meets absolute fear. Good thing nothing like that could ever happen in a modern democracy, right? Right.Join us as we unpack Armando Iannucci’s dark comedy, where top Soviet officials scramble like cockroaches in a spotlight after their dear leader suddenly kicks the bucket. We marvel at the way they lie, backstab, and perform loyalty theater with such grace you'd think they were auditioning for cable news.No parallels to draw here, folks. Just a quaint historical romp through a time when government officials said one thing in public, another in private, and loyalty to the leader trumped reality. That’s definitely not familiar. Nope. Not even a little.So tune in for laughs, gasps, and a subtle but totally unintentional look in the mirror. This is just history. Distant, irrelevant, and absolutely not a warning sign blinking in red neon.Here’s a link to Michael Noland’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine0:00 - Intros 7:50 - Michael Noland: The Bottom Line13:30 - Franz Ferdinand live19:30 - Telescreens22:35 - Yellowjackets (season 3) 24:45 - Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal29:50 - Captain America - Brave New World39:15 - Nintendo Switch 242:30 - The Death Of Stalin (2017)
The Pink Panther movies are part of an enduring cinema comedy franchise, an ever-sillier slapstick human cartoon brought to you by the genius of Blake Edwards and Peters Sellers. 11 films total. 6 starring Sellers. 7 directed by Edwards. Only 5 are any good. They can re-cast James Bond every few years and no one really cares, but try to recast Inspector Clouseau and it spells disaster. Oh, they’ve tried to put the series on life support a few times before, but without Sellers there simply is no Pink Panther. Period. 0:00 - Intros4:15 - The Gorge (2025)10:00 - Anora (2024)16:25 - Dr. No and From Russia with Love24:30 - Burke and Hare (2010)30:10 - The Pink Panther
In this episode, we bravely tackle the 1967 British sci-fi horror film Quatermass and the Pit—a movie Boomers swear is a classic, and who are we to argue with the generation that gave us powdered soup and lawn darts? We explore the film’s ambitious plot involving Martians, mind control, and human evolution—all rendered with the finest special effects 1967 had to offer (which is to say, not very fine). Join us as we try to figure out what’s genuinely eerie and what’s just aged weirdly, all while appreciating the film’s lasting influence on the genre... even if it sometimes feels like watching a really intense episode of Doctor Who on VHS.0:00 - Intros4:05 - Burnistoun (Scottish Sketch Show)6:15 - Ministry - The Squirrely Years 8:50 - AWOLNATION10:25 - Extrapolations (Apple TV+)22:15 - Quatermass and the Pit
A classic of Australian cinema, 1980’s “Breaker Morant” is the best Australian war film that isn’t “Gallipoli” ever. Part biograph, part history, part courtroom drama, pitch black in its view of humanity and some of the greatest film performances ever. Edward Woodward, (the original “Equalizer,”) Brian Brown, (who may be contractually obligated to be in any film shot in Australia,) and the legendary Jack Thompson star, and we’ll be talking about it.0:00 - Intros6:40 - Viva Knievel!17:05 - The Electric State28:50 - Sly Lives (aka The Burden of Black Genius)34:00 - Twisted Metal (Paramount Plus)37:35 - Severance40:55 - Ghosts43:35 - Breaker Morant
It’s the greatest 40’s-noir-mystery-fantasy-magic mashup ever released in 1991! That’s right, Cast a Deadly Spell is the made-for-tv movie you didn’t know you needed about gumshoe H.P. Lovecraft on a case through 1948 L.A. to find a stolen Necronomicon and avoid the second coming of Cthulu. With a cast that includes Fred Ward, Clancy Brown, David Warner and Julianne Moore… from the director of Goldeneye and the producer of Aliens! If this thing had a bigger budget and few more rewrites, it could’ve been the greatest movie of the 90s. What we got was still a pretty good entertainment value. With extra zombies.0:00 - Intros6:25 - The 80’s Cruise16:15 - Squeeze16:50 - Andy Bell17:40 - AdamAnt)18:30 Honeymoon suite19:45 - Kurtis Blow22:25 - Men at Work and Colin Hay solo24:15 - Information Society26:40 - Musical Youth27:20 - T’Pau and Tiffany28:10 - Warrant29:45 - Christopher Cross (ride like the wind)31:57 - Sheila E.34:05 - Choosing between next year’s 80’s Cruise or 90’s Cruise39:50 - Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
The Academy Awards are coming up this week, so we decided to look back at the twisted logic that decided “Shakespeare in Love” was a better movie than “Saving Private Ryan.” There’s some other stuff in this episode as well, but that’s just the shining example of WTF in Oscar history, isn’t it?0:00 - Intros5:30 - The 90’s Cruise21:00 - Better Man (2025)24:30 - Some Like It Hot! (touring)28:30 - Only Murders in the Building (season 4)32:55 - Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl36:20 - Best Pictures get it wrong#DrivingMissDaisy #DoTheRightThing#BetterMan #Oscars #BestPicture #RobbieWilliams #SomeLikeItHot #Broadway #OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding #WallaceAndGromit#The90sCruise #The80sCruise #Lit #Everclear #DigitalUnderground #ColorMeBadd#podcast #genx #nostalgia #funny #movies #streaming #podernfamily #underdogpods
Remember cable TV? If you do, then you might also remember The Cable Guy, the 1996 Jim Carrey cult movie directed by Ben Stiller. Where to start with this uneven mix of screwball-meets-satire-meets-dark-comedy? It has some good bits peppered throughout, but keeps stalling before other moments arrive… sort of like Jim Carrey’s whole filmography, really. Mostly it is of interest to us as a fulcrum point in the 90’s careers of both Stiller and Carrey, who by this time were starting to branch out from the purely comic to experiment with the dark side of life. The Cable Guy has pedigree, but it is inconsistent, and thus remains an oddity that we decided to flog with leftover coaxial.0:00 - Intros4:45 - Bert I. Gordon movies (eg: The Amazing Colossal Man)13:15 - Kevin Can Fuck Himself17:30 - A Simple Favor21:00 - Laid (Peacock)23:25 - Penny Dreadful25:25 - Harley Quinn26:15 - Creature Commandos27:55 - Lioness33:00 - The Cable Guy (1996)#Lioness#Laid #HarleyQuinn #CreatureCommandos #DC#KevinCanFuckHimself #AnnaKendrick #ASimpleFavor #BlakeLively#BenStiller #JimCarrey #TheCableGuy #90s #BertIGordon #TheAmazingColossalMan#podcast #genx #nostalgia #funny #movies #streaming #podernfamily #underdogpods
If you’ve ever wondered what movies were coming out in 2025, you probably had that thought in like just the last week or two, right? Who thinks of the movies coming soon any further back than that? If this was January 1997, the movies coming out in 1997 should be what you’re worried about, not the movies dropping in 2025… Wait, what were we talking about again? Oh yeah, movies coming soon or something… That Superman thing is gonna be huge!0:00 - Intros7:00 - Wolf Man7:50 - Star Trek: Section 319:45 - Flight Risk11:10 - Bridget Jones vs Captain America vs Paddington vs The Gorge on Valentine’s Day16:05 - The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie17:34 - Mickey 1718:40 - Snow White21:30 - A Working Man23:30 - A Minecraft Movie25:20 - Sinners26:45 - Happy Gilmore 226:45 - Thunderbolts*29:40 - Lilo & Stitch30:20 - Karate Kid: Legends30:48 - Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning33:55 - Ballerina From the world of John Wick37:15 - Elio vs How to Train Your Dragon40:30 - 28 Years Later42:25 - F143:50 - Jurassic World Rebirth47:00 - Superman57:20 - Fantastic Four: First Steps59:25 - The Naked Gun1:01:00 - Freakier Friday1:02:35 - The Bride!1:03:53 - Tron: Ares1:05:07 - Mortal Kombat 21:05:33 - Predator Badlands vs The Running Man1:07:35 - Now You See Me 31:08:10 - Avatar: Fire and Ash
Episode 323 - David Lynch’s Blue VelvetDavid Lynch - the great visionary of modern cinema - has died and we are all the poorer for it. RIP Mr. Lynch. And while film fans slather your entire career with praise and hosannas, we instead salute the single film that is most important to our show, Blue Velvet. It is where all the Lynchian tropes got defined, a mash-up of 50’s melodrama and noir, blended into a milkshake of psychosexual violence as only the 80’s could allow. By most conventional metrics, this one is not considered Lynch’s masterpiece… but we disagree. Blue Velvet is his greatest film per our dimbulb view, a cornerstone film that has always bound this podcast forever to the weird, the uncanny, the trashy and the classics of cinema. And also his most quotable film EVER. It’s a strange world…0:00 - Intros8:05 - The Brutalist (2025)15:20 - StarTrek: Section 3121:10 - cover bands24:00 - Emelia Perez (2025)28:55 - Creature Commandos (Max)31:30 - Severance (season 2, Apple)38:00 - the casts of The Magnificent Seven (1960) vs The Great Escape (1963)44:25 - Blue Velvet (David Lynch - 1986)
New year, same old podcast… We’re back from our December holiday hiatus and doing a full show of the usual segment we like to call The Fresh Sh*t. Because we’re lazy and didn’t get around to picking a real topic. So enjoy our normal crazy talk about all the movies, TV, music and books we have been enjoying before we ultimately get cranky and start yelling at clouds or whatever. Happy 2025, gang!0:00 - Intros5:10 - Josh Johnson on Luigi Mangione12:00 - James Acaster15:35 - Maria Bamford19:55 - Cunk on Life23:50 - Cary Grant’s Suit (McEwen)28:45 - Joker Folie à Deux (2024)35:50 - A Real Pain (2024)39:07 - Red One (2024)39:55 - Babygirl (2024)46:25 - Squid Game 2 (2025)53:00 - Interior Chinatown57:20 - Girls 5 Eva59:30 - Man On The InsideHere’s a link to Josh Johnson’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JoshJohnsonComedyHere’s a bit from James Acaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPql0PRFvB4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPql0PRFvB4
Episode 321 - The Magnificently Huge Podcast 2024 Xmas Music MixWe can’t keep recycling the years-old Christmas music episode forever. Time for some new Holly Jolly! Here’s a link to this year’s playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5rPQMNPtxhxRLG0U3TLzcu?si=dlWJENXlQayXOZ079HOwiwIntro - 0:00Power Music Workout - Do You Hear What I Hear?Classic Block - 3:23Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters - Mele KalikimakaThe Beach Boys - Little Saint NickRap Block - 8:20Christmas In Hollis - Run-DMCSnoop Dogg, Magic Juan, Jake the Flake - A Pimp’s Christmas SongQuad City DJ’s - What You Want For ChristmasPraveen Francis - Christmas RapSilly Block 23:19Bob & Doug McKenzie - The Twelve Days Of ChristmasElizabeth Gray - It’s Christmas and I Don’t Like YouThe Singing Dogs - Jingle BellsJoel Kopischke - Stupid Christmas SongJohn Denver - Please, Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)Wesley Willis - Merry ChristmasCanned Hamm and Friends - First I Make Love to You and Then I Make Love to ChristmasPunk and Rock Block 41:28William Shatner, Henry Rollins - Jingle BellsVoodoo Glow Skulls - Feliz NavidadThe Linda Lindas - Groovy XmasRelient K - I’m Getting Nuttin’ For ChristmasBeautiful and Modern Block 54:09Johnnyswim - Christmas DayMindy Gledhill - Patapan / O Come, O Come EmmanuelPentatonix - O Come, All Ye FaithfulEchosmith - I Heard the Bells On Christmas DayHere’s a link to our perennial episode with clips of other crazy Christmas music: https://soundcloud.com/user-214181788/the-magnificently-huge-crazy-christmas-music-playlist-1?si=c90f0747899742d8aac16bf109005439&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharingHere's a link to the Awesome/Bad Christmas playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/quebedox/playlist/4JVVzDtl3AtASAtj99KKKl
Just because a movie is set at Christmas doesn’t mean it is a “Christmas Movie.” So sayeth us. We drop some hot takes on all the holiday entertainment marketed to us every year as being very Christmas-y… and we say NOPE. Or at least we are confused as to why they are considered part of this Season of Joy. The rules are pretty arbitrary here, but the bottom line is - if it has Santa Claus in it that doesn’t give it a free pass. You gotta earn that Xmas Cheer, yo. Also, Die Hard is still not a Xmas movie.0:00 - Intros5:00 - Landman (Paramount)9:25 - House (series)13:15 - It’s Florida, Man (Max)15:40 - The Umbrella Academy (Netflix, final season) SPOILERS19:40 - Cyndi Lauper live25:35 - Le Tigre27:15 - Plum Tree30:05 - Holly Jolly WTF?
Imagine a heartfelt, warm, comforting movie about Christmas. Get that idea locked in your head. Now, imagine that same movie, but all of the parts are played by cadavers - and half of those corpses are that of Tom Hanks. If that’s difficult for you to bend your mind around, have no fear, Robert Zemeckis has done all the work for you in Polar Express, our feature of the week!0:00 - Intros6:15 - Planes Trains and Automobiles (1987)13:35 - Anthony Vincent18:00 - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)27:30 - Brats (2024)29:30 - Yacht Rock Documentary (Max, 2024)38:20 - The Polar Express (2004)Check out Ten Second Songs on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm6r_b2K5jn1JGkwDcwJXrQ
This week, we’re diving headfirst into the icy wilderness with Hundreds of Beavers, the latest indie film that’s equal parts surreal slapstick, silent-era homage, and weird woodland fever dream. This black-and-white oddity defies explanation—so naturally, we spend a half-hour or so trying to explain it anyway.0:00 - Intros5:25 - The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)13:10 - Eric’s Dune Rabbit Hole: Dune (2021), Dune: Part Two (2024), Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse: Dune (Frank Herbert), Hunters of Dune (Brian Herbert)19:25 - Hysteria! (Peacock)23:45 - Disco Show26:45 - Sting and Billy Joel live33:55 - Shell Game (podcast)41:00 - Hundreds of Beavers (2024)
It’s all neon gloss and kinetic pacing in this peak 80s early outing from writer/direct Luc Besson (Fifth Element)! And it is French! We get a pre-Highlander Christopher Lambert as a lost soul on the run from both the cops and the mob, hiding out in the Paris subway tunnels among a community of social outcasts and petty thieves. There is not much more to it than that. But again, it looks terrific, which is all we really expected anyway from Monsieur Besson.0:00 - Intros5:50 - Rivals (Hulu)13:00 - Amelie (2001)18:40 - Jeff Lynne’s ELO27:40 - The Penguin (Max)34:20 - Whatever Bond movie is on40:40 - Subway (1985)
The first in what might be an occasional series on films that deliberately scarred children - and we love them for it! Join us as we explore the dark fantasy classic Coraline (2009). We discuss how its unsettling visuals, eerie storytelling, and masterful animation left an indelible mark on young audiences, and why none of that worked on Chris or Eric who are old and dead inside and hadn't seen it before.0:00 - Intros7:25 - What We Do In The Shadows9:30 - Addams Family Channel and Munsters Channel (Pluto TV)17:30 - Joywave19:30 - Funny Girl (touring)25:35 - Coraline (2009)
Doctor Sleep is the sequel to the Stephen King horror classic, The Shining, and is one of the better King movie adaptations that you probably heard was crap and so you didn’t see it. The truth is, it’s pretty darned good - if you watch the right version (ie, the theatrical cut or Mike Flanagan’s director’s cut). This is a rare occasion where the director’s cut is actually worth it, and not just a chance to see boobs. But it also exists within the very long shadow cast by Stanley Kubrick’s original masterpiece, which Stephen King hates. It is a complicated situation, is what we are saying. But watch Doctor Sleep and you will be rewarded, we promise.0:00 - Intros10:45 - Billy Bragg (live)20:25 - Midge Ure22:30 - Stevie Nicks - The Lighthouse26:00 - Ted Danson30:50 - Cruel World 2025 lineup35:00 - Doctor Sleep (SPOILER Discussion)
Likely your parents told you to never pick up hitchhikers. But did C. Thomas Howell follow that advice back in 1986? Of course not! He stopped for Rutger Hauer on an empty desert highway in West Texas, and let’s just say he learned his lesson but good. It’s a B-movie grindhouse game of cat-and-mouse that has managed to gain a cult following over the years, but one that probably wouldn’t work as well in 2024, what with all our newfangled phone technology and freeways and such. Bottom line, they don’t make ‘em like this anymore…or do they? 0:00 - Intros8:10 - Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (Netflix)15:40 - I Feel Love cover by Colin Benders & Cato van Dijck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9S2iDh1je4)18:00 - Solar Opposites (Hulu)22:15 - Love Death and Robots (Netflix)23:45 - Hacks (season 1) (Max)29:20 - Kite Man, Hell Yeah! (Max)35:05 - The Hitcher (1986)
Another Stephen King adaptation? In a word - yes. Full of vampire lore and 70s fashion, “‘Salem’s Lot” is actually a slightly better than average Stephen King adaptation. Want proof? Listen to the episode!0:00 - Intros7:30 - Megalopolis (2024)18:50 - Surely You Can’t Be Serious (Book)22:15 - Civil War (2024)29:38 - Minnie Riperton - Come Into My Garden31:15 - Salem’s Lot (2024) - SPOILER DISCUSSION
This week, we take a look at the 1991 thriller “Silence of the Lambs.” Aside from having some of the best performances, writing, directing and catering, this Jonathan Demme classic is one of the most eminently quotable films of all time. Look at that - for once we discuss a film that’s good? Are we evolving? We also talk about other pop culture stuff, because that’s how we roll. 0:00 - Intros and the 2024 Election13:00 - The Decameron (Netflix)17:45 - The Renaissance Unchained (Amazon)20:25 - How the States Got Their Shapes25:00 - Peter Hook & The Light30:00 - Green Day Saviors Tour42:50 - The Devotees 43:37 - The Silence of the LambsFor more on Waldemar Januszczak go to https://waldemar.tv/
There is no better way to enjoy all the fun of an election year than by watching a political satire mockumentary film from 1992 called Bob Roberts. Written by, directed by, and starring a young Tim Robbins, this one swings for the fences to skewer American political dysfunction. The film follows a rich, white businessman with no moral compass who is running for the Senate, a man who uses the extreme right wing demagogue playbook to steamroll his way into the hearts and minds of a feeble-minded electorate eager to go back to family values, no drugs, and no freeloaders… or something. Plus, he sings some bouncy folk music about how the leftists are destroying our country. Was Bob Roberts a scarily prescient film? Or have we always been stuck in this doom loop? You be the judge.Watch the full movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iZbT_izZ20Some More News explaining why right wing comedy isn’t very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSXKzPOcYDU&pp=ygUgc29tZSBtb3JlIG5ld3MgcmlnaHQgd2luZyBjb21lZHk%3DAnd here’s the movie “Feed”! We found it!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjd-A2HNnNw0:00 - Intros6:45 - Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (Netflix)10:40 - Watching YouTube without ads (PC + VPN + AdBlock Pro)15:45 - Bands that have Songs named after them on Albums named after them:Talk Talk, Big Country, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Bad Company, Tin Machine, Living In A Box, Bo Diddley, Porno for Pyros, New Kids On The Block, Icehouse, Meat Puppets, Dog Police24:49 - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)38:30 - Mrs. Doubtfire (Broadway touring company)49:00 - Bob Roberts
Gattaca (1997) is one of those BIG IDEA sci-fi movies that is more interested in making you go hmmmm than it is in much else. So if you are into glacially-paced cautionary tales about the societal dangers of genetically engineering humans as the only way to achieve success in life, then this is the movie for you! Plus, it has identity theft! And a murder mystery! And a vaguely familiar retro-futuro design that has been used in countless other, better cautionary sci-fi movies about BIG IDEAS! With Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law! We have seen the future (again), and it is Gattaca.0:00 - Intros4:30 - David Bowie’s first albums10:10 - Steve Miller Band (live)17:00 - Journey and Def Leppard (live)21:15 - John Wick (1, 2 and 3)27:30 - Jack Ryan (Amazon/Freevee)37:25 - Gattaca
It’s genre fiction at its most capitalistic! Join us as we discuss the history of Star Trek, Part 2 - the latter half where, like Marvel and Star Wars and Indiana Jones and anything else that was ever geek culture blockbuster fodder, the suits ruined everything. Will we finally get Chris to become a fan of Star Trek? Will Alex Kurtzman learn to create a coherent story? Will we ever learn how to not talk all over each other? And why is the answer to all of these questions, “no?” Find out this week!0:00 - Intros6:30 - The Rocketman Show (Rus Anderson)13:00 - Atlians (Outkast)18:30 - Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Zulu (1964)23:30 - Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam (Netflix, 2024)29:00 - Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)36:00 - Star Trek for Noobs Beyond!39:05 - Enterprise49:30 - JJ Abrams Star Trek (2009)52:50 - Star Trek Into Darkness (2011)57:10 - Star Trek Discovery (2017)1:01:40 - Lower Decks (2020)1:03:34 - Prodigy (2021)1:04:45 - Strange New Worlds (2022)Here's our minimal list of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes you should watchEncounter at Farpoint (Season 1, episodes 1 & 2) The Measure of A Man (Season 2, episode 9)Q Who (Season 2, episode 16)The Defector (Season 3, episode 10)Yesterday’s Enterprise (Season 3, episode 15)The Offspring (Season 3, episode 16)The Best of Both Worlds, parts 1 and 2 (Season 3, episode 26 & Season 4, episode 1)Family (Season 4, episode 2)The Drumhead (Season 4, episode 21)Darmok (Season 5, episode 2)Ensign Ro (Season 5, episode 3)Conundrum (Season 5, episode 14)The Inner Light (Season 5, episode 25)Time’s Arrow (Seasons 5 & 6, episodes 26 & 1)Chain of Command, Parts 1 & 2 (Season 6, episodes 10 & 11)The Chase (Season 6, episode 20)All Good Things… (Season 7, episodes 25 & 26)
Curious about Star Trek, but don’t know where to start? Have we got a show for you! Because while all of us here at MagHuge know the Original Series stuff, some of us (cough… Chris… cough) never really got into anything else Trek in the last 37 years. So there are many questions for noobs who are maybe Trek-curious, but need some wizened guidance on where to begin in this vast, complicated universe of TV shows and movies…. which hardcore Star Trek fans are apparently only too happy to talk about. So sit back and enjoy our irreverent, warp speed overview of as much Trek as we could fit into this Part 1 discussion to try and make Star Trek happen. Again. And remember, the first taste is always free.0:00 - Intros4:00 - Childhood’s End (Clarke, 1953)6:30 - American Gods (Gaiman, 2001)15:00 - The Stars My Destination (Bester, 1956) 17:40 - Rapture-Palooza (2013)23:00 - UB4026:40 - Bowfinger (1999)32:30 - Star Trek for Beginners37:00 - The Original Series vs Star Wars40:30 - Star Trek: The Next Generation59:20 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine1:13:00 - Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise
This week we discuss one of the greatest films ever made - apparently. It’s not entirely clear why The French Connection is considered one of the greatest movies ever made, but then all we did was watch it. Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider star in the filthiest depiction of filthy early-1970s New York City, with the famous car chase that will make you say, “meh.” But it’s us talking about it, so we make it all much more entertaining! Here’s a link to the Patrick (H) Willems video about car chases and Grand Prix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPnTm8C_OfY0:00 - Intros4:50 - Conan O’Brien needs a Friend / Beastie Boys14:30 - Wicked Little Letters (2023)18:30 - Borderlands (2024)24:05 - The Serpent Queen (Starz, 2022)29:40 - The French Connection (1971)
Hey edgelordz! If U think Crank isn’t the shiznit then ur dum. Quit dl that boy band trash from Napster and get with the kewl kidz. It’s like GTA but it’s a movie, yo! It’s L337!0:00 - Intros4:15 - Mythic Quest5:00 - From5:22 - Lolita (book)7:25 - Deadpool & Wolverine9:15 - Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F24:00 - Crank and Crank: High Voltage
SNL movies were the entertainment vehicle we didn’t know we wanted, and then we found out why. The 90s were the heyday for movies based on popular characters from the sketch comedy juggernaut Saturday Night Live, so let’s talk about that. It’s the podcast episode you didn’t know you wanted, and then… are we repeating the joke here? Sorry, getting into the SNL mood. It’s a theme. The theme you didn’t know you wanted…0:00 - Intros3:10 - The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live7:50 - Totally Tubular Festival12:40 - Thelma (2024)19:20 - Rock Hudson / Doris Day29:15 - Saturday Night Live movies
Ever see a movie for the first time and feel like you’ve seen it all before? Well that is Doomsday, kids, the 2008 magnum opus of future-dystopia action-adventure from writer/director Neill Marshall (Dog Soldiers, Hellboy 2019). It is allegedly an homage to much better classic genre fare, but really what you get is a lazy story that lifts whole tropes & scenes & characters from those better classic genre flicks in a very obvious and tedious manner. From 28 Days Later to Escape From New York to Mad Max to Aliens and beyond, Doomsday is a kitchen-sink movie that isn’t so much concerned with reinventing the wheel as it is with reminding us all what was so great about the stuff it is stealing from. With more cannibalism and explosions!3:12 - Kamala Harris flips the script24:55 - Avengers: Doomsday27:15 - Doomsday (2008)
In 1981, the creators of the uber midnight-movie classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show decided to press their luck and attempted to bottle lightning one more time…in a musical non-sequel sequel called Shock Treatment. Brad & Janet return in this messy media satire about reality television and our corporate overlords that was about 20 years ahead of its time…but arriving about 5 years too late. With no really memorable numbers ala Time Warp to speak of, what’s left is a shallow spiritual sequel to Rocky Horror that is utterly devoid of that predecessor’s weird glam-rock, gender-fluid charm. It looks great, but there ain’t much underneath, which makes it about as 1980’s as it gets. Yea verily.0:00 - Intros4:05 - Late Night With The Devil5:05 - Interview With The Vampire (AMC)11:10 - The Boys (Season 4)13:15 - Jane Weidlin (live)15:35 - How Music Got Free (1622 napster bad)21:40 - Ren Faire (Max)25:40 - The Green Planet33:20 - Shock Treatment
The Last Starfighter is one of the most fun, mostly forgotten unsung heroes from the stacked roster of summer movies in 1984. A kid who dreams of escaping his dead-end life in a trailer park gets the high score on a video game, which ends up being a recruitment test for a fight against tyranny in a galaxy far, far away. Derivative? Yes. Dated effects? Sure. But fun? Most definitely! With (at the time) burgeoning state-of-the-art CGI, plus a breezy runtime and relatable characters, The Last Starfighter still wasn’t a huge hit - which is a shame. But it found new life on cable TV and at the video store well into the early 90s, until it just kinda disappeared into cult-filmdom. And now that it has turned 40, it is the perfect time to revisit one of our favorites and see if it still holds up. 0:00 - Intros6:10 - Godzilla Minus One (2023)15:20 - Superstar: Dare To Dream (1999)21:10 - Peter Pan (touring)24:50 - Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. (HBO / Hulu)34:40 - The Last Fighter (1984)
This round we take aim at movie genres that have run their course. They make for cliche, uninteresting slop, where the preview tells you everything you need to know about what’s going to happen: This person will get laid, that person will get killed, that other person will overcome their whatever. Why? Because that’s how things work in this collection of tired movie genres that must end… or at least take a nice long break.2:45 - 34 Felony Convictions8:15 - Matt Rife vs Nikki Glaser14:45 - Doctor Who24:10 - Ghostbusters Frozen Empire30:25 - Game of Thrones41:15 - Genres that need to go away
Roger Corman is dead. Long live Roger Corman!3:50 - Punk Rock Bowling (Madness, The English Beat, DEVO)18:25 - The Fall Guy (2024)24:55 - Furiosa (2024)32:10 - Roger Corman
Akira (1988) is an undisputed anime classic, that much is true. But it also pretty much ruined all other anime for us by setting the bar so ridiculously high. Akira is a pure adrenaline rush, an epic visual feast about armageddon and rebirth that set the bar way too high. And nothing since (not even Miyazaki) has come close in terms of pure scale, tone and world-building. It is the perfect blend of sound and image that defies any simple description, and once you see it you cannot unsee it. Plus, it makes us yell Kaneda! at the top of our lungs every single time. Watch it, then listen to us talk about watching it. Rinse. Repeat. 5:10 - Masters of the Air (Apple TV+)13:10 - I Am Big Bird (2014)17:35 - Self Reliance (2024)22:10 - The Righteous Gemstones25:45 - Häxan (1922)31:30 - Akira (1988)
You may not know his name immediately, but you probably know his work. He does movies for teenagers, but he’s only directed one Marvel movie. We’ve been discussing Matty Vaughn for a while now, always impressed with how far he’s gotten on so little. So we decided today we would bless him with our thoughts and rapier wits. ‘Cause that’s how we roll.0:00 - Intros11:14 - Totally Killer (2023)14:40 - Unfrosted (2024)25:10 - Robodoc (2023)32:35 - Villains Inc. (2024)39:10 - Boy Kills World (2024)45:35 - Matthew Vaughn
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 - Intros5:55 - Fallout (Amazon)12:30 - Ripley (Netflix)16:10 - Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire25:20 - Once Upon A Time In Hollywood33:00 - In Medias Res also rams40:20 - In Medias Res - Best use Bracket41:15 - Big Dumb Superhero Movies: Deadpool vs Iron Man44:15 - The Christopher Nolan Mindfuck: The Prestige vs Memento50:00 - Gen X Blood-soaked Fight To The Death: Reservoir Dogs vs Fight Club55:10 - Oscar Darlings: Lawrence of Arabia vs Forrest Gump1:01:20 - Semifinals1:04:45 - Finals
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 YouTube31:30 - Shogun (Max)39:14 - Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964)
Episode 295 - Train to Busan2016 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 - Intros6:20 - Dream Scenario (2024)11:55 - Rick and Morty season 716:50 - Mr Robot27:50 - Argylle (2024)31:20 - Roadhouse (2024)(36:44 - FSBUMP)36:55 - Train To Busan (2016)
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 Gentleman28:40 - Swan Song (book)33:00 - Dreamscape (1984)
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_fAQX4:30 - Scared Ketchup - The Trump Show11:10 - State Of The Union Address15:35 - Euphoria (Max)22:05 - Elektra25:50 - The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989)28:10 - Dempsey and Makepeace (1985)34:00 - 1987 in movies
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 - Intros4:30 - Dicks The Musical12:12 - Northern Exposure17:45 - Wild Isles20:20 - Fargo (season 5)28:40 - I Can’t Believe They Didn’t Remake This Already
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 - Intros5:51 - Mr. Robot13:30 - Japanese Precision Walking16:15 - Kabaddi20:39 - AR / VR26:50 - Freaks VS The Reich32:10 - Dick Tracy (1990)
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 - Fizz9:50 - 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 Aviation41:35 - Lisa Frankenstein (2024)47:40 - Napoleon48:40 - Pop Will Eat Itself, Jesus Jones, EMF and other Grebo acts53:44 - The Beekeeper (2024)Auralnauts Zack Snyder’s Star Wars: https://youtu.be/J9X_FmCbrIA?si=JpDkiOUhH0rjZxUiGreen Dot Aviation: https://www.youtube.com/@GreenDotAviation
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 Japan10:00 - Brian’s work trip to India20:30 - Sid and Marty Krofft shows on Tubi21:20 - The Bay City Rollers Show29:00 - 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/oQwRNcVZ434Brian’s India fast food video: https://youtu.be/vad9eFKz2Xw
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 Mankind40:40 - Journey to the Far Side of the Sun / Doppelganger (1969)
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)
We’re Baaaaaaaack! After a month-long hiatus of adhering to a Live-Laugh-Love mantra, the MagHuge crew rings in 2024 with a whole new podcast show about random crap we’ve all been watching and doing and listening to during our self-imposed holiday! We gots movies, concerts, TV and theater galore to catch you up on. But no books - because books are for the idle and never did no one no good never. Welcome to Re-FreshitExtravaganza!9:23 - Fresh Shit10:20 - Rocket around the Christmas Tree13:20 - Great British Bake Off16:00 - Wonka (2023)29:00 - Mannheim Steamroller live33:00 - Depeche Mode (Memento Mori tour 2023)39:10 - The Ref (1994)47:00 - Poor Things (2023)52:00 - The Magnificently Huge Podcast1:01:10 - Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (Max, 2023)1:06:30 - Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Upon the occasion of his death, we are repeating our tribute to the great Norman Lear!In the 1970's, television producer Norman Lear beat Marvel to the punch by several decades with the creation of a sitcom universe filled with individual shows whose characters formed an unstoppable team of comedy heroes to defeat an array of social issues. Archie Bunker is Iron Man. Maude is Thor. George Jefferson is The Hulk. Also: Adrienne Barbeau is Adrienne Barbeau.
Episode 286 - Children of MenChildren of Men (2006) is one of the finest dystopian future movies ever committed to film… that no one seems to remember. Which is weird, because it has one of Clive Owen’s best hangdog performances, and a supporting cast (Julianne Moore, Michael Caine & Chiwetel Ejiofor) that most movies would kill for. Plus, Alfonso Cuarón directed some of the most amazing “single-shot” action sequences of all time in what should have been a sure-fire classic of speculative fiction. Instead, this very prescient story about the world falling apart at the seams came and went with a shrug from most. Which is a damn shame, because this movie packs a real wallop. Do yourself a favor and watch it, then listen to this very special podcast!8:20 - Lies of P15:55 - Quiz Lady (2023)21:10 - For All Mankind (Apple+)26:10 - A Haunting in Venice (2023)28:40 - Hogan’s Heroes33:40 - Children of Men (2006)
Say you’re so rich and popular that you can just make a movie with all your most famous friends and make yourself look cool. Turns out that Frank Sinatra did it in 1960, and so did George Clooney in 2001. It turns out that both times the movie was named “Ocean’s Eleven!” It must be nice. For our part, we spoil more MCU stuff and hang out with a big fun hang-out movie. Hang out with us!5:40 - Starfield (Xbox)11:55 - Loki (Disney+)17:30 - The Marvels (2023)28:30 - Steven Seagal movies (Above the Law, Marked for Death, Out for Justice)38 :55 - Ocean’s 11 (2001)
Spider Baby - the 1967 “cult classic” that you’ve probably never heard of. As always, we watch it for you, so you don’t have to!4:15 - Invasion (Apple TV+)7:45 - One Cut of the Dead15:25 - Band of Brothers20:05 - How To with John Wilson / Nathan For You23:35 - No Hard Feelings (2023)28:45 - Spider Baby (1967)You can watch Spider Baby on the internet archive here: https://archive.org/details/sinistercinema_spiderbaby
Among the notable horror icons of the 80s that spawned endless sequels of varying quality, few are as weird as the phenomenon of Chucky - the child’s doll possessed by the spirit of a psychopathic serial killer who dabbles in voodoo. First arriving in 1988, Child’s Play was a modest success that was buoyed by an interesting concept and some first-rate practical effects work that helped propel it into the Horror Hall of Fame. But is it still any good? We haven’t seen the sequels, but decided to catch up with the original to see if it still holds up. Please enjoy our look back at Child’s Play. Chuck You!7:30 - Local Portland bands: NSynced, Faux B-52s13:20 - Violent Femmes (live)16:30 - Totally Killer (Amazon)21:00 - Our Flag Means Death (Season 2, Max)22:50 - Moonlighting (now on Hulu)(28:44 title sequence gets discussed)32:30 - Child’s Play (1988)
While Scream and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare brought meta to the horror genre earlier, 2011’s The Cabin In The Woods brings a fresh new perspective to the well worn dead teenager film. If we want to get really meta about it, we can talk about how the scariest and most disturbing things about it are related to Joss Whedon, but really that’s just lazy comedy. Anyway, it’s October, so crank up the scary movies!6:15 - P!nk (live)11:45 - Tina the musical (touring)15:30 - high school Aliens musical16:40 - NHL is back (Stompin’ Tom)17:15 - Only Murders in the Building (Hulu, Season 3)21:00 - Sub Pop (Green River, Butthole Surfers, Sleater-Kinney)23:40 - Some More News (youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ28knLt5Rs 27:55 - The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)31:00 - Roger Waters The Dark Side of the Moon Redux35:23 - The Cabin in the Woods (2011) [SPOILER WARNING]
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 America12:45 - The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix)18:50 - MASH20:15 - Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Book)22:42 - The Troop (Book)24:55 - Bottom (BBC)27:55 - David Cronenberg
We love it when a plan comes together! Unless it doesn’t, as is the case with 2010’s misguided, uninspired, confusing reboot movie of the classic 80s TV juggernaut - The A-Team. What should have been a slam-dunk summer actioner was actually a giant, generic mess of a movie that arrived with a shrug and killed any hope of a franchise. Mistakes were made. A lot of mistakes. Join us for our shallow discussion about how NOT to reboot a TV show into a movie with The A-Team! We ain’t gettin’ on no podcast, Hannibal…10:00 - Star Trek: The Next Generation16:15 - James Hood’s Beautifica19:00 - Painkiller (Netflix)24:10 - I Think You Should Leave (Netflix)25:50 - Peter Serafinowicz show31:25 - Tim Heidecker take on Club Random and Bill Maher33:45 - The A-Team (2010)
If you know, you know… John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China is flat out one of the greatest achievements in modern cinema. That’s it, that’s our thesis. Because when some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues…You just stare that big sucker right back in the eye and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” Yessir, the check is in the mail.6:00 - Pixies (Live)11:10 - Physical (Apple+)13:30 - The Venture Bros: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023)19:25 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) 25:00 - U2 at the sphere27:00 - Harley Quinn Season 4 (Max)30:55 - A Haunting In Venice (2023)39:20 - Big Trouble In Little China (1986)
Join us as we discuss the forgotten mock spy classic “Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.” The inspiration for the Fembots from Austin Powers, this movie reeks of mid-60s camp, sexism and utter lack of subversiveness. If nothing else, it explains why your boomer grandparents look so confused now. We also discuss what we’re watching this week, now that the writers and actors are on strike. And good for them while we’re at it! #WGAStrong!3:00 - GTA Online8:20 - Crimes of the Future (2022)17:00 - OMD - Bauhaus Staircase19:40 - What We Do In The Shadows (season 5)21:10 - Matt Berry27:55 - One Piece31:3 0 - Good Omens 237:30 - Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
So we thought it would be fun to do a show about Troma, the indie movie studio that has given us such classic exploitation comedy-horror schlock like The Toxic Avenger and Surf Nazis Must Die! for decades now. Turns out, we were dead wrong. The funny thing about Troma - at least for us - is that we always seem to remember the movies fondly…until we have the actual butt-squirming experience of trying to sit through one. But hey, at least there’s all the splatter and gore and naked boobs that a $500 production budget will allow! Anyway, we pick our favorite titles and then complain a lot about how it is too bad we aren’t 14 years old anymore so we could truly enjoy what is now regarded as the definitive Troma aesthetic. It’s a gas!
8:30 - Writer’s / Actor’s strike 9:57 - Ashoka (Disney+) 15:00 - Beetlejuice (the musical) 21:00 - Baldur’s Gate 3 24:00 - Moon Knight (comics) 31:40 - True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) 37:50 - Troma
Boy what is there to say about this weird-ass French Power Rangers inspired movie? Guess you’ll just have to listen to the podcast to find out!
5:55 - The Crowded Room (Apple TV+) 9:45 - The Dollop 13:00 - Berlin, Howard Jones, and Culture Club Live - The Letting It Go Show 17:15 - Tacoma FD 21:55 - Smoking Causes Coughing (2023)
Take off, you hosers! Sorry, had to lead with that because it’s a beauty catchphrase, eh… from the SCTV duo of Bob & Doug McKenzie in their one and only film: Strange Brew. It’s a classic from 1983 that has achieved true cult status, and it turns 40 this year, so that deserved a little something from the podcast. Just know, everything we learned about Canadian culture came from this movie, so don’t blame us if we sound like we don’t know what we’re talking about, you hoser. Have another beer, eh? Or a jelly donut, maybe…
3:33 - Trump Indictment #4 11:15 - Ministry - Goddamn White Trash link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8imYWda6MOs 13:15 - Meg 2: The Trench (2023) 19:30 - The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (2023) 21:30 - Werewolves Within (movie) 24:15 - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Season 2 - Paramount+) 28:15 - Foundation (Apple TV+) 35:35 - Strange Brew (1983)
You think you know what a cult film is? You think it’s something like “Clockwork Orange” or “Blade Runner,” just because they didn’t make money when they came out but were actually really great films? No! Cult movies are crap movies that are just balls-out weird. Like “Human Highway” - the love child experiment of granola rock merchant Neil Young. This week we do a deep dive into an ACTUAL cult film - replete with hubris, cocaine, DEVO, and the apocalypse. The only thing missing here is dramatic structure.
10:00 - It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) 17:45 - Secret Invasion (Marvel) 20:25 - Black Mirror - Joan is Awful and Cunk on Earth (2023) 26:00 - Invasion (Apple TV+) 30:30 - Human Highway
Link to where you can watch Human Highway https://archive.org/details/human-highway
We interrupt our regularly scheduled podcast to bring you this very special episode of the Magnificently Huge Podcast. The recent news of the death of Sinéad O'Connor followed by Paul Rubens / Pee-Wee Herman knocked us off our rhythm of making each other watch movies. Raise a glass with us to some underappreciated talents. Also this week, we manage to actually talk about current movies like Oppenheimer and Ninja Turtles, so it’s not all existential dread.
2:35 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) 13:2 5 - Competing American Gladiators documentaries (2023) 20:40 - Oppenheimer (2023) 31:55 - Asteroid City (2023) 37:45 - RIP Sinead O’Connor and Paul Rubens
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
Nicolas Cage… the man, the myth, the actor… man! He’s got a rep for bringing the crazy, and for being in a boatload of dreck in the past 12-ish years to pay the bills. But he’s also damn good in just about everything he’s ever been in, never phones it in no matter what. We break it down by era, from early-Cage favorites to the post-Oscar late-90s action blockbusters and into the straight-to-video years. There is nothing Nic Cage can’t do, because he’s a national treasure… Also, we yuck it up about that Barbie movie that some folks think is too damn woke and turning everyone gay. Or maybe that was Oppenheimer? Whatever, just put the bunny down and give us more Nic Cage, already!
5:30 - Barbie (2023) 21:00 - Sparks and They Might Be Giants (Live) 30:25 - Eraser (1996) 34:30 - Nicolas Cage
What do Citizen Kane, Buckaroo Banzai, Risky Business and Ready Player One all have in common? If you read the title of this podcast you probably guessed that they’re all tangentially related to War of the Worlds! Join the MagHuge crew as we revisit the second Steven Spielberg / Tom Cruise effectstravaganza that no one asked for. This time from 2005. Yes, the very creaky Victorian-era sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells gets an update from the director who had never done aliens as baddies before, and the result is... well, let's just say it hasn't aged well, unlike Tom Cruise.
9:30 - The Sons of Anarchy 14:25 - Nora from Queens 17:45 - Asteroid City (2023) 26:40 - Escape to Athena (1979) 36:15 - War of the Worlds (2005)
Die Hard (1988) is an action movie classic, on that we all agree. Its success created an entirely new sub-genre that is still being aped today - something we’ve dubbed “Die Hard in a Whatever.” Baddies take over a confined space (building, bus, plane, mall, city, etc) but fail to account for a rogue everyman on the loose who is intent on foiling their plans and saving an estranged loved one in the process. Join us for a look at the questionable Die Hard sequels, plus some Die Hard clones/rip-offs of varying quality. But one thing is certain… There can only be one Die Hard and that is the actual Die Hard. Yippee kai yay, muther-effer!
4:15 - The Righteous Gemstones (Max) 9:28 - The Flash (2023) 22:00 - Smartless (Max) 25:00 - Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law (Adult Swim) 28:20 - Die Hard in a Die Hard
In our ongoing series of movies from the early 2000’s that Brian had never seen, we’ve got the solid directorial debut of Joe Cornish from 2011 - Attack the Block. It’s an alien invasion movie set in a council estate in South London, with a bunch of kids fighting off space monsters run amok for 90 minutes. And it is flippin’ great! It’s the movie that put John Boyega on the map before all that Star Wars junk, and also features Jodie (The 13th Doctor Who) Whittaker, and Nick (Everything by Edgar Wright) Frost. So give it a go, you won’t be sorry! Probably. More than likely. Whatever… Attack the Block!
7:12 - (It’s been a while) 6:10 - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 12:10 - Fast X (2023) 19:20 - The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) 24:25 (insert clip from SNL that eric mentions) 26:15 - Renfield (2023) 33:10 - Attack the Block (2011)
What do Francis Ford Coppola, Roger Corman, Yellowstone, Dungeons & Dragons, and Duran Duran have in common? Other than they’re all discussed on this episode, absolutely nothing! This week we dig into the obscure 1963 schlock horror film that launched Coppola’s career: “Dementia 13”. Good luck to us all.
3:30 - Duran Duran (live) 16:45 - Yellowstone (Peacock) 21:20 - Poker Face (Peacock) 24:00 - The Traitors (Peacock) 27:10 - Fool’s Paradise (2023) 32:25 - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) 37:55 - Dementia 13 (1963)
Ahoy, maties, and ARRRRRRRRRR! It’s our look back at arguably the best movie ever made based on a theme park ride… Walt Disney’s 2003 popcorner, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. And hey, it’s turning 20, so there’s also that! Honestly, this movie is pure fun, and we still can’t decipher how that is even possible for a movie based on a very niche Disneyland ride. But there it is. The cast is stellar, Gore Verbinski hits his directing stride, and thus, a bloated franchise was born! Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for us…0:00 - Intros7:25 - Love and Rockets! (live)16:20 - Goth Week: Cruel World Fest 2023, The Sisters of Mercy, and The Cure (live)26:00 - John Wick Chapter 433:00 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)Here’s the video Eric wants you to watch; https://youtu.be/0T0nDZqujVw
“You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with.”― George Carlin5:30 - The Other Two (seasons 2 and 3)9:00 - Seal and The Buggles (live)13:30 - New trailers for The Flash and Dune 2 and Asteroid City (2023)18:15 - Star Trek: Picard (season 3)22:35 - Magnum Force (1973)29:50 - My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Streaming movies are dead. Don’t believe me? To prove it, we decided to each pick our favorite new streaming service film - and we all rolled snake eyes. At least we have a theory why. What’s that theory? Well duh, that’s why you need to listen to the show!3:20 - NYT The Ballad of Deep Fake Drake (podcast)9:25 - Stanley Cup playoffs14:30 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)22:40 - Direct to Streaming Movies31:00 - AKA (Netflix)37:00 - Prey (Hulu)38:30 - Quasi (Hulu)46:30 - Honey Boy (Amazon)
Does anyone remember the 1990 Bill Murray comedy called Quick Change? Because if you speak to any casual film-watcher about it, they’ll just ask “what’s that?” For the uninitiated, Quick Change is a reasonably funny, if imperfect, heist comedy that Bill Murray made in between Ghostbusters 2 and What About Bob? He produced and co-directed it, to boot, which makes it sort of a vanity project. Plus, it had a very strong supporting cast of established names like Geena Davis, Randy Quaid and Jason Robards. And in July of 1990 it came and went like a fart in the wind, becoming a very weird career blindspot for Murray. Your MagHuge crew all saw it opening weekend, and we have vague memories of being entertained… but Quick Change is mostly a hazy memory now, asking to be rekindled as a reminder that it even exists at all. Enjoy.5:15 - Yellowstone spinoffs: 1883 and 192314:30 - Tetris (Apple, 2023)20:00 - Schmigadoon! (Season 2: Schmicago)23:20 - Death Wish (1974)33:30 - Quick Change (1990)
For some reason Brian, the guy who goes to all the new movies all the time, also has some inexcusable holes in his cinematic history. This week we rectify yet another of his oversights as we use the show to get him to see 2012’s Dredd, starring Karl Urban.6:10 - The Mandalorian (Season 3)9:40 - Star Trek and Klingons12:30 - Picard (Season 3)17:55 - Renfield (2023)23:00 - Dredd (2012)
This week we look at movies you would not believe aren’t based on comic books. They have all of the color, all of the action, but they’re ORIGINAL for Christ’s sake. What a novel idea!3:15 - Trump Indictment10:35 - Weird History Food (YouTube)17:35 - Muse and Evanescence (Live)23:30 - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)29:1 5 - The Mandalorian (Season 3, Disney+)36:30 - Movies NOT based on comic books
Movies based on TV shows weren’t really a big thing until they got supercharged in the 90’s, once studios ran out of ideas. That’s the whole magilla this go-round. From movies that were continuations of a popular series, to faithful re-creations that hewed to the original, to the ironic comedies that had some fun… we got it all right here in this podcast. Literally dozens of shows and movies pulled from literally minutes of online searching to bring you as many adaptations as we could fit in under 30 minutes…the good, the bad and the downright stupid!3:50 - Depeche Mode (Live)18:15 - The Highwayman (NBC, 1987)28:55 - John Wick Chapter 4 (2023)34:15 - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) vs. Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022)39:54 - Movies based on TV shows
The 90s were a time of burnout, nihilism, and everything else we love about 20-something GenX. In that spirit, we present another mid-90s cyberpunk downer in the form of Strange Days, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Lewis and Angela Bassett. Jack in (or whatever your preferred type of jack may be) and join us reliving bad memories of a movie where people relive other people’s bad memories!4:00 - The Consultant (Amazon)8:30 - The King’s Man (2021)14:00 - Hello tomorrow! (Apple TV+)18:30 - Babylon (2022)27:55 - The Avengers (1960’s series)45:20 - Strange Days (1995)Here’s the conversation between Ralph Fiennes and Christoph Waltzhttps://youtu.be/zU_m1QTfSXk
Our big dumb exploration of Frat Pack Cinema of the 2000's continues with a look back at the '04 sports-comedy classic, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a wacky dodgeball movie starring Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller…but really, why would you? Easily one of our top picks from the Naughty Aughties, this is one that shouldn't work but ends up out-classing most of the competition. And it gave us all THE OCHO! 3:00 - NYT The Daily Podcast: A.O. Scott is quitting film criticism4:27 edit out eric6:20 - Star Trek Online10:50 - Picard (season 3)14:20 - Shock Waves (1977)19:55 - Hansel and Gretl Witch Hunters (2013)23:20 - Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)29:30 - Dodgeball (2004)
Check the times below for when we get around to Cobra, because we talk about The 80’s Cruise for a while.In 1986, Sylvester Stallone was arguably the biggest star on the planet. Rocky, Rambo, Rhinestone… well, forget Rhinestone, but those other two killed it at the box office. So how to follow that kind of iconic success? Why not make an ultraviolet cop movie with good ol’ Cannon Films called Cobra? It’s an unbelievably mindless and blatant riff on the better (if equally proto-fascist) Dirty Harry about a rogue cop who takes the law into his own hands and kills a bunch of whack-a-doodle domestic terrorists after they go on a murder rampage in his city. Sure, there might be an actual story buried in there somewhere, but who cares? We get car chases, gun fights, explosions and Stallone dropping one-liners like he’s Schwarzenegger or something. Cobra may be a cult classic now, but watching it again is like seeing a parody of every 80s tough guy flick cranked to 11. 0:00 - Intros4:51 - The 80s Cruise11:06 - DEVO15:19 - Bret Michaels17:25 - Lou Gramm18:50 - Howard Jones19:23 - Kim Wilde20:15 - Vixen21:00 - China Crisis23:15 - EXTC24:30 - Cutting Crew25:20 - The Smithereens26:50 - Robin Wilson28:45 - The 80s Cruise lineup for 202437:25 - Cobra (1986)1:09:00 - John Cafferty song
How do you start an intro about a band like the great and powerful DEVO? Like that. Just like that. Like what I just did right there. Once you get through that though, you need to talk about how they’re the inspiration behind so much techno, punk rock, art rock, and just smart assery of Generation X. If you’ve never listened to anything other than their one enormous hit, let us introduce you to the magic of DEVO.Playlists (best we could do with what they offer):Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/episode-256-devo-suburban-robots-to-monitor-reality/pl.u-j17Dfdqvb15Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6mguR3LJPCmzmtAQLi8G9i?si=cc149d2a5ff14eaf0:00 - Intros4:20 - Knock At the Cabin (2023)9:58 - Cocaine Bear (2023)15:50 - The 'Burbs, Wayne’s World, Real Genius21:44 - DEVO28:25 - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978)SatisfactionUncontrollable Urge (also Dev2.0 version)Jocko HomoGut Feeling / Slap Your MammyMongoloid39:47 - Duty Now for the Future (1979)Smart Patrol / Mr DNAThe Day My Baby Gave Me a SurpriseDevo Corporate AnthemWiggly World46:39 Freedom of Choice (1980)Freedom of ChoiceGirl U WantMr B’s Ballroom52:50 - New Traditionalists (1981)Workin’ In A Coal Mine(beautiful world target ad and swiffer whip it)Through Being CoolJerkin’ Back ‘n’ Forth (live)Going UnderToni Basil - Be Stiff59:17 - Oh, No! It’s Devo! (1982)Out of SyncThat’s GoodSpeed RacerExplosions1:04:48 - Shout (1984)Dare to be StupidAre You Experienced?Here to Go1:07:12 - Total DevoBaby Doll in SwedishSome Things Never Change1:09:34 - Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace 1988Jocko HomoIt Doesn’t Matter To Me1:02:51 - Smooth Noodle Maps (1990)Post Post-Modern Man1:13:20 - Hardcore DEVO Theme From Doctor DetroitI Need A Chick1:15:30 Something for Everybody (2010)FreshStep UpLater Is NowWhat We DoDon’t Shoot (I’m a Man)Watch Us Work It
What if Robert Downey Jr, Sally Field, Elizabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg, Carrie Fisher, and Kevin Kline made a movie and everyone forgot it? Did you remember Soap Dish? We’re betting your reaction was something on the order of “Oh yeah, huh. That was a movie I guess.” We pull this 1991 comedy out of the drawer and give it a spin. See what we think! See if you agree!Also, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Because movies. And The Last of Us. Because clickbait.0:00 - Intros3:00 - Salvage One (1979)8:00 - The Last of Us (HBO)12:30 - Star Trek Picard (Paramount+)21:00 - Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James25:50 - Marc Maron From Bleak to Dark (HBO)28:15 - Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)35:30 - Soap Dish (1991)
Are you ready for another Lost VHS Classic, kids? Well you’re in luck, because today we’re gonna have a go at the 1982 Steve Martin/Carl Reiner comedy, The Man With Two Brains! What is The Man With Two Brains, you ask? Well, we’ve seen it and we still aren’t entirely sure. On the surface it is a send-up of 50’s B-movie horror/suspense tropes about a mad scientist, a gold-digging femme fatale, and a brain-swap machine. If you have no idea what any of that means, it’s cool. Just know this is another wacky romp from the team that brought you The Jerk! It’s Kathleen Turner’s follow up to her breakout role in Body Heat! It’s Merv Griffin as… Merv Griffin! And it’s 100% niche cinema, which is why you should listen! Into the mud, scum queen!4:04 - Muppets Benoit Blanc Rainbow Connection5:45 - I Know That Voice10:15 - Justin Roiland is out of Rick and Morty and everything else. Also Hogwarts Legacy16:55 - Perpetual Grace LTD 19:55 - War of the Worlds and other shows that shouldn’t have kept going22:05 - The Peripheral23:45 - Cunk on Earth26:30 - Dead to Me28:45 - Star Trek Strange New World34:15 - The Man With Two Brains (1983)
This week we watch your Dad’s favorite movie. Back before the Internet let us talk to our favorite introverts, conspiracy theorists and secessionists, men watched movies about men doing manly things with other men in a man’s world… but Fight Club was a splash of cold water that said, “Wake up - you’re living a lie.” This week we dig into why this film still works, why it was ahead of its time in some of the worst ways, and some of the odder theories behind what this film really means.0:00 - Intros7:45 - The Wandering Earth 214:20 - Neil Hamburger stand up comedy17:20 - Snowball Express (1972)22:15 - Legend of Vox Machina29:30 - Fight Club (1999)
From the Better Late Than Never File comes our look back at Season 3 of the greatest show on television, The Boys! It may have taken 6 months for all of us to finally watch it, but so what? We've got jobs and stuff, ya losers! What matters is we've seen it, we loved it, and now we'll yammer on about Butcher, Homelander, Soldier Boy, and the rest of the gang in all their violent, bloody, psychologically damaged glory! It's a spot-on satire of our modern age, and we're damn well here for it.3:40 - Mel Brooks History of the World Part II6:40 - The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix)10:15 - Willow (Disney+)15:05 - White Noise (Netflix)23:00 - The Umbrella Academy Season 326:40 - Hunters (Amazon)29:45 - War of the Worlds (2019 series)33:50 - The Boys: Season 3 (Amazon)
Do you remember Video Stores? We sure do - because we’re old as F@%$. They used to be everywhere, a ubiquitous strip mall fixture purveying all manner of niche movie titles in every genre, rented in a format known as a “videocassette” tape that you could take home and play in your VCR machine. This was back in the 80s and 90s when physical media was how we consumed our entertainment, when giant homogeneous corporations finally squeezed out the Mom ‘N Pop stores and killed all the joy in life with nothing but New Releases. But their hubris would be their undoing, as a Jetson-like future of streaming technology and à la carte on-demand choice finally became reality and killed the scrappy video store for good. Once a bustling weekend hub of every neighborhood, the video store is now a faded legend of the distant past. And we salute them all.5:30 - Mayor of Kingstown (Paramount+)9:35 - Star Trek Voyager15:00 - Paddington (2014)19:55 - The Fabelmans (2022)24:30 - The Last of Sheila (1973)28:45 - The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)32:30 - Digital Killed the Video Store
Excelsior, bitches! Recently, Eric tried to binge-watch ALL of Marvel Phase 4 - a 2-year chunk of movies and TV shows. Then, to make it seem like there was a reason for this insanity, he pitched it as a show. We go through all 50 hours & 21 minutes of it - in an episode that, as we recorded it, felt only slightly longer.0:00 - Intros8:56 - WandaVision (2021)12:10 - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)15:30 - Loki season 1 (2021)19:05 - Black Widow (2021)21:50 - What If...? (2021)25:20 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)30:55 - Eternals (2021)35:07 - Hawkeye (2021)38:25 - Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)41:35 - Moon Knight (2022)44:45 - Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)48:25 - Ms. Marvel (2022)51:55 - Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)55:08 - She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)58:15 - Werewolf by Night (2022)59:55 - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)1:03:38 - The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022)
Daniel Craig’s now-iconic movie detective Benoit Blanc is back in the latest mystery bonbon from writer-director Riann Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. This one, as you may have deduced from the title, is the sequel to 2019’s equally fun deconstruction of classic whodunits, Knives Out. Again stacked with an impeccable cast, Johnson’s latest is another razor-sharp, eat-the-rich satire cocooned inside an affectionate homage to the likes of Agatha Christie. Or the board game Clue. Or perhaps The Beatles? There’s a LOT going on here, and we get to it in our very SPOILERIFIC review. As Benoit Blanc says so concisely in the movie, It’s just dumb!0:00 - Intros4:20 - God of War: Ragnarok7:25 - High on Life13:55 - Grand Theft Auto 419:07 - Star Trek Timelines20:21 - Petticoat Junction25:10 - Derry Girls30:19 - Glass Onion SPOILER conversation
It’s that time of year again, where we take a long amount of time off and let things slide. That means we have a LOT of new stuff to talk about! Movies, TV shows, concerts, plays… we did a lot of stuff in the last weeks of 2022, and it’s time to dish. Check out what we checked out - it’s a freshitstravaganza!0:00 - Intros6:00 - Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)17:00 - Black Adam (2022)22:50 - White Noise (2023)30:50 - Rick and Morty season 635:15 - Violent Night (2022)40:00 - 1899 (Netflix)43:50 - Fleishman is in Trouble47:30 - Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio54:20 - Willow1:02:00 - Moulin Rouge! (touring)1:06:15 - To Kill a Mockingbird1:12:00 - DaredevilLink to the SNL Avatar “Papyrus” sketch: https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ
Christmas music is evergreen, and so is this episode from Black Friday of 2017. Once again, Brian subjects the rest of the MagHuge crew (and you!) to his insane taste in christmas music! Click the link to play the home game!Here's a link to the Awesome/Bad Christmas playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/quebedox/playlist/4JVVzDtl3AtASAtj99KKKl | 0:00 - Introductions | 2:50 - The Punisher | 4:03 - Hockey Music | 6:55 - The Punisher again, and the other Marvel Netflix shows | 12:57 - Murder on the Orient Express | 14:57 - The Good Place | 18:10 - Thanksgiving plans | 22:52 - Butter Day | 26:16 - Black Friday | 32:19 - When should the Christmas decorations go up? | 33:20 - Christmas Music! | Clips: | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Rush Coil - O Holy Night | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat | Tyler Bates - The Punisher | Stompin Tom Connors - The Hockey Song | Warren Zevon - Hit Somebody | Rick and Morty - True Level | Imagine Dragons - Believer | Theme from “The Good Place” | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Thousand Foot Krutch - Jingle Bell Rock | KJ-52 - It's Christmas Time | Joseph Spence - Santa Claus Is Comin to Town | Run-DMC - Christmas In Hollis | Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You | Otis Redding - White Christmas | Mannheim Steamroller - Deck The Halls | Mannheim Steamroller - Carol of the Bells | Woody Phillips - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy | Sarah McLachlan - The First Noel / Mary Mary | Bing Crosby - White Christmas | Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka | John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) | Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time | Ringo remembers Christmas 1979 | No Doubt - Oi To The World | Shonen Knife - Space Christmas | The Cocteau Twins - Winter Wonderland | The Cocteau Twins - Frosty The Snowman | Justin Bieber ft. Busta Rhymes - Drummer Boy
What could possibly make the perennial Charles Dickens holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol,” even better? Why, add The Muppets, of course! And it’s right there in the friggin’ title! We end 2022 with a Bah Humbug look at “The Muppet Christmas Carol” turning 30 - a true banger starring Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge, along with your favorite Muppets to bring some festive cheer. We call it “The most accessible version of A Christmas Carol ever made!” Damning praise indeed! Plus, we’ve got a bunch of other stuff we’ve been watching to close out the year in true MagHuge style. Ho ho ho. | 0:00 - Intros | 7:40 - The Menu (2022) | 16:00 - Strange World (2022) | 22:25 - The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) | 28:00 - Year of the Rabbit (Britbox) | 31:10 - The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
The 1983 classic “A Christmas Story” was the perfect encapsulation of what Christmas should be all about. That’s why it’s a classic. Is this week’s show about that? Well, that would have been nice and easy. But there’s just one thing you see, Mag Huge never ever do nothing nice and easy - we always do it nice and rough. So instead, we cover the two competing sequels to a movie that was so charming, it shouldn’t have a sequel at all...much less two. But if you think about it, two movies made to cash in on a nostalgia classic is exactly what Christmas is all about, isn’t it? Exploitation! We also cover the things we’ve been watching in this, our penultimate show for the year 2022. Ho ho ho! | 0:00 - Intros | 5:00 - Santa Claus The Movie (1985) | 12:00 - A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019) | 14:45 - Wednesday (Netflix) | 21:00 - She Said (2022) | 27:10 - Andor (Disney+) | 33:20 - A Christmas Story 2 (2012) | 45:00 - A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)
Episode 245 - Obligatory Top 3 Coen Brothers Show
Any film nerd worth their salt has at least a few favorites in the Coen Brothers’ oeuvre… And since we’re all definitely nerds, we thought we’d stack our personal Top 3’s against each other and see what happens. Join us shall we, for our fully obligatory, totally arbitrary whittling down of the entire Coen Brothers filmography, stinkers included! We definitely agree on one clear favorite above all others, and it may shock you! As The Dude would say, “Yeah, well, that’s just like…your opinion, man.”
| 0:00 - Intros / Twitter | 9:20 - Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) | 13:40 - She Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) | 17:30 - God of War: Ragnarok (PS5) | 19:00 - The E$tate (2022) | 21:55 - Spirited (2022) | 27:00 - How It Happened (podcast) | 33:55 - Investigate Joe Rogan (podcast) | 37:25 - Coen Brothers movies
Episode 244 - Nope
In his continuing bid to be just like M. Night Shyamalan but better, we have “Nope,” Jordan Peele’s latest horror-thriller film. We break it down this week - What is this film really about? Is it about anything? Why is it called, “Nope” really? Why isn’t Michael Wincott in more movies? And more. Probably. Plus our usual collection of what we’ve enjoyed this week that so many of you clamor for because you can’t figure out what to watch on Netfilx. You’re welcome. So come along, shall we?
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:00 - Heardle | 9:00 - Is That Black Enough For You? (Netflix) | 12:30 - Blockbuster Video | 14:10 - Angelyne (Peacock) | 17:25 - Black Panther Wakanda Forever (2022) | 24:11 - American Horror Story NYC | 29:35 - Nope (2022)
In 2005 we were in the afterglow of the first 2 Spider-Man movies, Blade, and The Matrix. Even the X-Men movies were still good. Just before Batman began again and Marvel stomped all over everything, we got Constantine - a little nugget of what comic based movies might have been, until they weren’t. This week the Mag Huge crew revisits this under-the-radar film that will apparently be getting a sequel some day.
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:17 - Black Adam (2022) | 6:00 - Oklahoma! (2019 revival, touring) | 13:07 - More about Duane Johnson | 16:55 - Ariel Elias and Pelosi’s husband attacked | 20:51 - Cover Bands: The Wanna-Be 52’s and The Beat On Brats | 27:25 - Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World | 31:35 - Constantine (2005)
Oh my little hungry ones, it’s time to make a mountain out of a molehill! This week the new Weird Al movie showed up on Roku, and gave us an excuse to get nerdy in the extreme about the man himself. So wind up your radios and enjoy a totally true podcast about an even more TOTALLY TRUE BIOPIC about the greatest performer who ever made up words to other people’s songs that already existed. This is the life!
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:40 - See How They Run (2022) | 11:00 - The Automat (2021) | 16:25 - Coins - Daft Science remixes https://coinsmakeyoudance.bandcamp.com/album/daft-science | 18:50 - Six (Broadway Touring) vs RuPaul’s Drag Race Live (Vegas) | 24:07 - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) and also just Weird Al in general
Stephen King has written over 60 books and countless short stories over 50 years. He's essentially his own genre - a blend of horror, supernatural, thriller and human drama - that is, let's be honest, a mixed bag. And don't get us started on all the movies - from the highs of The Shining to the lows of Lawnmower Man, and everything in between. Or maybe do get us started, because we have opinions. Scary ones…
| 0:00 - Intros | 8:00 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Japanese Breakfast, The Linda Lindas (live) | 16:00 - Pet Shop Boys and New Order: The Unity Tour (live) | 24:10 - Living Single | 28:00 - John Wick | 31:40 - Well There’s Your Problem (podcast) | 35:00 - Stephen King
Here’s a link to the Well There’s Your Problem Podcast https://youtu.be/gxOK6otta3s
Which do you find scarier: A phantom from beyond our mortal coil that came to drag you to hell, or a guy with a knife who you might work with and thinks your skin would make a nice hat? The fact that there’s (likely) no hell but there are definitely knives could make you think this is an easy choice. But it’s not up to you, it’s up to how scrunched up your butt hole gets when they bring on the scary. This week, we’re Halloweening with ghost and psycho movies.
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:35 - House of the Dragon (HBO) | 13:30 - Reboot | 15:30 - Marc Maron - End Times Fun (Netflix) | 17:00 - Roger Waters: This Is Not A Drill | 20:56 - Werewolf By Night (Disney+) | 26:00 - She Hulk: Attorney At Law (Disney+) | 29:00 - The Batman | 32:35 - Ghosts vs Psychos!
Eric’s screenwriting professor used to tell him, “the story all comes out of the characters you create.” Okay, yes, but… if they don’t have anything to do, they’re just a bunch of people standing around talking. The MacGuffin is a plot device that makes people do things in a story. It may force characters to show you parts of themselves you wouldn’t normally see, because it introduces stress, or obsession, or a reason for being. This week we discuss some of the Big MacGuffins in film history, and why they work.
| 0:00 - Intros | 2:40 - Star Wars: Andor (Disney+) | 13:25 - Day Shift (Netflix) | 15:15 - She-Hulk: Attorney At Law (Disney+) | 19:15 - Harley Quinn (Season 3, HBO Max) | 22:38 - Rick and Morty | 27:26 - Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Rings of Power | 37:37 - MacGuffins!
Eric’s screenwriting professor used to tell him, “the story all comes out of the characters you create.” Okay, yes, but… if they don’t have anything to do, they’re just a bunch of people standing around talking. The MacGuffin is a plot device that makes people do things in a story. It may force characters to show you parts of themselves you wouldn’t normally see, because it introduces stress, or obsession, or a reason for being. This week we discuss some of the Big MacGuffins in film history, and why they work.
| 0:00 - Intros | 2:40 - Star Wars: Andor (Disney+) | 13:25 - Day Shift (Netflix) | 15:15 - She-Hulk: Attorney At Law (Disney+) | 19:15 - Harley Quinn (Season 3, HBO Max) | 22:38 - Rick and Morty | 27:26 - Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Rings of Power | 37:37 - MacGuffins!
For one brief shining moment in 1988, the notion that Cyndi Lauper would be the next big pop star to become a movie star was real. Noted 80’s hack screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandell created the ultimate star vehicle for her in the form of Vibes, a movie that Dan Ackroyd turned down. Think about that for a minute. Think about what Dan Ackroyd was doing in that time frame, and realize that he had no taste whatsoever. Anyway, Vibes is better than what he was doing. Also Jeff Goldblum!
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:30 - See How They Run (2022) | 11:15 - MAS*H | 20:00 - Better Call Saul | 26:21 - Hacks (HBO Max) | 29:38 - The Patient (Hulu) | 36:45 - Vibes (1988)
Think of a popular movie series (ie, “film franchise”) - loosely, a film and its sequels totaling 3+ entries - and, based on the very first one in said series/franchise, ask yourself a question: Did that movie warrant a big, fat franchise (ie, “series”)? Obviously, if there is money to be made, a studio will make it. But as much as you like the first Back to the Future, let’s be real, those sequels are kind of pointless. Or, to paraphrase Jurassic Park (another now-endless, pointless franchise, btw): Just because the studios could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. We drop some series old and new, because rehashing a show about sequels and calling it Improbable Movie Franchises is not lame at all.
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:45 - Duran Duran - Future Past tour with Nile Rogers and Chic (live) | 10:30 - Rick Springfield with Men At Work (live) | 16:00 - Franz Ferdinand (live) | 19:10 - Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon) | 28:15 - What We Do in the Shadows | 30:25 - Belfast | 33:00 - Improbable Movie Franchises
What’s the best way to start an introduction to the British alt-rock band Radiohead? Talk about how weird they can get? Their rabid fan base? What critical darlings they are? Yes, and in that order! Which is what I just did! Yay me! Check out our run-down of the biggest band of the turn of the millennium.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:15 - Forbidden Zone (1980) | 10:20 - Three Thousand Years Of Longing (2022) | 14:20 - The Boys (Season 3) | 19:12 - Welcome to Wrexham (Hulu) | 23:20 - Your Mom’s House (podcast) | 25:15 - Kleo (Netflix) | 29:35 - Radiohead
Legendary animator Phil Tippet apparently has too much time on his hands. He’s got nothing to do and all day to do it. He’s got nowhere to go and all night to get there. After watching his long-in-development home movie Mad God, we wonder if he’s not crazy. We wonder if he’s sane at all. We watched Mad God, and honestly - it’s hard to believe such a calamity.
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:05 - The Boys (Season 3) | 7:47 - Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand | 10:20 - Grease (1978) | 19:00 - Billy Idol (live) | 23:00 - Boy George and Culture Club (live) | 25:45 - The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard | 33:00 - Mad God (2022)
We have a theory here at the show: NEVER read the source material of any movie adaptation before you see the film itself. Otherwise, you’ll just be disappointed. Spoiler: Brian broke his own rule and proved the thesis. So what happens when Netflix makes a slick, big-budget movie based on a renowned post-modernist short story by a celebrated author (George Saunders) no one outside the literary community has likely heard of before? Why, Spiderhead, of course, you big dummy. Chris Hemsworth leads a cast that includes Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett, in something about a cushy white-collar prison in the middle of nowhere testing pharmaceuticals on its volunteer inmates before things get really weird and violent. Oh, and it is directed by Joseph Kosinski, who just did Top Gun: Maverick, so he can do whatever he wants now. But definitely don’t read the book first, whatever you do.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:15 - Bullet Train (2022) | 11:10 - Download: The Rise and Fall of Harry Knowles and Aint It Cool News (podcast) | 17:05 - The Old Man (Hulu) | 24:10 - The Umbrella Academy (Season 3, Netflix) | 27:37 - The Sandman (Netflix) | 35:10 - Spiderhead (2022)
What do you get when you mix an unemployed millennial, his girlfriend, his hipster friends, a minotaur, and an insanely huge box fort complete with an abattoir and booby traps? Normally, just a big dumb mess. But in this case, you get one of the most interesting to watch independent films in decades. This week we’re breaking down the 2017 insanely great film, “Dave Made a Maze.” Join us, shall we?
| 0:00 - Intros | 1:47 - Grand Theft Auto Online | 6:40 - The Chats, Amyl and The Sniffers, and The Beths | 13:20 - The Princess | 16:00 - Clark | 19:04 - Dispatches From Elsewhere | 22:20 - Severance | 25:40 - Last Night In Soho | 29:34 - Elvis (2022) | 33:50 - Dave Made A Maze
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)
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)
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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)
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
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 221 - Starsky & Hutch
“He’s Starsky, I’m Hutch.” Set the Wayback Machine to 2004 for a revisit of a forgettable comedy reboot of the classic 1970’s police drama, Starsky & Hutch! That’s right, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson channel Zoolander and Hansel in what was supposed to be a funny buddy-movie romp about cops in Bay City, USA, doing amusing cop stuff. We saw it years ago, but barely remember anything, apart from a cast that includes Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis, Jason Bateman, and Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear. Which is weird, because we still remember more about the show’s iconic red 1976 Gran Torino with that badass white vector stripe on the sides. But the ‘04 movie version? A totally competent, of-its-time Frat Pack comedy from the director of Old School that is fun while it lasts, but ultimately disappears like a fart in the wind. Much like Owen Wilson’s career!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:00 - Songs about the Moon | 7:25 - The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) | 12:45 - Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984) | 17:15 - Ghosts (BBC) | 21:15 - Pixies | 24:00 - Downton Abbey: A New Era Trailer | 26:30 - Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Did you know the moon was actually an alien-made superstructure put in our orbit for… reasons? Now the angry E.T.’s that put it there want it back for… other reasons. Stuff explodes, cities are destroyed, and humanity hangs in the balance for… more reasons. Moonfall - the latest disaster jam from our favorite big-budget schlockmeister Roland Emmerich - gets its due with a full-throated and arbitrary review. And yes, even by the standards of an Emmerich movie, this thing is D-U-M-B. But is it fun? Listen and find out before the fake moon destroys the planet in a blazing ball of fire!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:50 - The Lost City | 6:55 - Men Without Hats - Again, Part 2. | 8:55 - Journey and TOTO (Live) | 20:15 - The Great (Hulu) | 26:00 - Wanderers: A Novel - (Chuck Wendig) | 28:30 - Death on the Nile (2022) | 34:35 - Moonfall (2022)
Ever been caught in the middle of a garbage film and thought, “Wow! This one actor is really good though! I wish they were in something else, so I could be watching it instead right now!” This week we dive into those performances that are our personal favorites, the ones that appear in otherwise worthless films. We also dig into some movies, video games, TV shows, and music that is new or sort of new, and all the other culturally aware stuff you expect from a podcast of our grand stature! Huzzah!
| 2:00 - Everything Everywhere All At Once | 7:00 - Human Fall Flat | 9:55 - Severance | 15:10 - Moon Knight | 19:20 - Our Flag Means Death | 22:35 - Peacemaker | 28:15 - Wet Leg | 31:10 - Good Performances in Bad Movies
It’s an awesome spectacle. Truly a sight to behold. The show, beaten. The once Magnificently Huge podcast, now a study in mopishness. No longer the once-a-week podcast we’ve listened to so many times before, but a pathetic, washed up, aged ex-champion. We also want our TWO DOLLARS!
This week the MagHuge crew takes on one of our all time favorites: 1985’s Better Off Dead! Plus: The Batman, Halo, and Spider-Man: No Way Home all get our dumb hot-takes and faux-brilliant anaylisis.
As of this week we’re also no longer listing all the clips because the show notes are too long and are breaking the podcast feed. Womp womp.
| 4:30 - The 80’s Cruise 2022 | 12:30 - Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) | 16:26 - The Batman (2022) | 23:30 - Hamlet (Olivier, 1948) | 28:00 - Christine (1983) | 30:15 - Halo | 32:20 - Netflix MCU shows on Disney+ | 34:30 - Better Off Dead (1985)
Episode 217 - Network (1976)
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” If you’ve never seen writer Paddy Chayefsky’s and director Sidney Lumet’s 1976 film masterclass in dark-comic satire called Network, you’ve at least heard that famous quote. It has echoed for almost 50 years as some sort of weirdly prophetic war cry towards the quiet demise of actual facts in our media at the expense of vacuously lazy sensationalism. And it is effing scary how much it gets right about Right Now. Before the internet, before Fox News and CNN, before “reality” shows, before corporate mega-conglomerates took over every facet of our infotainment diet with empty calories, there was Network giving a defiant middle-finger to it all.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:30 - All Of Us Are Dead (Netflix) | 10:45 - Inventing Anna (Netflix) | 16:20 - Uncharted (2022) | 23:30 - Cyrano (2021) | 30:40 - The King’s Man (2022) | 36:30 - Network (1976)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Consolidated - America Number One | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Mowg - All Of Us Are Dead | Kris Bowers - Inventing Anna Theme | Ramin Djawadi - Uncharted | Hayley Bennett, Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner, Vikingur Olafsson & London Contemporary Orchestra - Someone To Say - Cyrano | Matthew Margeson & Dominic Lewis - Knights of the Roundtable - The King’s Man | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Network (1976) | Ned’s Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television
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
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
This week we discuss the largely underrated horror movie 1408, one of the last really good John Cusack films. 1408 is one of those mood-driven scary movies that doesn’t rely on jump scares (though there are a couple), gore, or teenagers being picked off. It’s also the only movie I’m aware of that uses the concept of “noclipping out of reality.” If you’re familiar with The Backrooms, you know what I’m talking about. (Go look it up on Reddit. It’s pretty creepy.) If you haven’t seen 1408 before, though, this will be a SPOILER FILLED review. So maybe go watch it first. You won’t regret it.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:30 - The Band’s Visit (Touring) | 9:20 - Encanto (Disney, 2021) | 13:30 - Eternals (2021) | 22:40 - The Book of Boba Fett (2022) | 31:15 - Dark Side of the 90’s | 33:50 - 1408 (2007)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Carpenters - We’ve Only Just Begun | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | The Band’s Visit Original Broadway Cast - The Concert | Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero and Stephanie Beatriz - We Don’t Talk About Bruno - Encanto | Ramin Djawadi - Eternals Theme | Ludwig Göransson - The Book of Boba Fett | Ludwig Göransson - The Book of Boba Fett s1e7 end credits music | Trailer for Dark Side of the 90s | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from 1408 (2007)
It was Chris’s turn to pick the show topic this round, so he deliberately chose something he knew would irritate both Eric and Brian to no end. And that is the movie Rubber in a nutshell. Ostensibly a B-movie horror satire about a sentient, homicidal tire on a desert rampage, Rubber quickly becomes too smart for its own good with a full-tilt meta-commentary on the nature of how audiences and art interact. Or something. Whatever, heads explode and Wings Hauser shows up, so that should be enough. Or should it? Yup, Rubber is aggressively anti-entertainment, which almost makes it the most entertaining movie ever made. Almost.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:30 - Trash Theory - New British Canon - The Smirking Revenge of Sisters of Mercy and This Corrosion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb3alPShWQU | 8:45 - Dead to Me (Netflix) | 12:10 - Big Bug (2022) | 21:25 - Reacher (Amazon) | 26:45 - Rubber (2010)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Mr. Oizo & Gaspard Ouge - Tricycle Express - Rubber | The Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Judy Garland - Get Happy | Gioachino Rossini - The Barber Of Seville - Overture | Howlin’ Wolf - Smokestack Lightning | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Rubber (2010)
Journey back to a time when there was no such thing as too much CGI in our summer blockbusters! In 1982, stoner animator Steven Lisberger blew all our minds with Tron: a work of staggering visual design with a script that made not one lick of sense. It was followed up decades later when the Master Control Program that runs Disney calculated there was more profit to be made with a sequel that no one really asked for. We take off the nostalgia goggles and beam ourselves directly into the Matrix…err…Grid, to see how these films hold up.
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:39 - The Book of Boba Fett (Disney Plus, 2022) | 13:00 - The House (Netflix, 2022) | 15:55 - Apple Fitness + | 18:05 - Ozark | 19:38 - Pam and Tommy (Hulu, 2022) | 23:30 - The Upside (2017) | 26:40 - Moonfall (2022) | 34:30 - Tron (1982) vs Tron Legacy (2010)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Ludwig Göransson - The Book of Boba Fett | Gustavo Santaolalla - Getting Ready - The House | Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way? | Rob Simonsen - Moving Forward - The Upside | Thomas Wandler, Harald Kloser & Lucas Knoebl - Ludicrous Mode - Moonfall | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Music from the Tron Arcade Game | Clips from Tron (1982) | London Symphony Orchestra & Wendy Carlos - Tronaction | Wendy Carlos - Tron Scherzo | TR2N Comic-Con Trailer | Daft Punk - The Son of Flynn - Tron Legacy | Daft Punk - Fall - Tron Legacy | Daft Punk - Derezzed - Tron Legacy | Daft Punk - TRON Legacy (End Titles)
It’s time we talk about the 1980 classic “The Blues Brothers” - for good or for ill, the forerunner of every Saturday Night Live based film to come after it. Full of great music, weird guest appearances, and the most cars destroyed on screen (until it’s lamentably shitty sequel, of which we will say nothing,) “The Blues Brothers” is probably the most underrated masterpiece there is.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:15 - The Legend Of Vox Machina (Amazon, 2022) | 7:00 - Pennyworth (Epix, 2019) | 15:20 - Don’t Look Up (Netflix, 2021) | 19:55 - Folding Ideas - Line Goes Up: The Problem With NFTs (https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g) | 25:30 - Superjail! (Adult Swim, 2007) | 28:20 - The Blues Brothers (1980)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Blues Brothers - Peter Gunn Theme | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Neal Acree - Opening Titles - The Legend Of Vox Machina | David Russo - Main Title - Pennyworth | Nicholas Britell - Don’t Look Up - Main Title Theme | Clip from Folding Ideas - Line Goes Up The Problem With NFTs | Cheeseburger - Coming Home (Superjail Opening Theme) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Aretha Franklin - Think (feat. The Blues Brothers) | Ray Charles - Shake a Tail Feather | John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom | Richard Spencer (alt right modern Nazi) speech excerpts | Clips from The Blues Brothers (1980) | The Blues Brothers - Theme to Rawhide | Girl From Ipanema (The Blues Brothers - elevator music) | The Blues Brothers - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
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
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
It’s January, and that means the MagHuge crew has been away from podcasting for a few weeks, and we have SO MUCH FRESHNESS to talk about! We’re covering most of the big clickbait this week. Check below for timestamps because we have a heapin’ helpin’ of SPOILERS for The Matrix: Resurrections, Ghostbusters Afterlife, Yellowjackets, Hawkeye, The Book of Boba Fett, and many more! Meet the new year, same as the old year!
| 0:00 - Intros, Covid, and Betty White | 9:45 - Katy Perry: Play (live) | 15:15 - The Matrix Resurrections (2021) | 30:50 - Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021) | 37:20 - Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk, 1999) | 39:40 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke, 1968) | 45:45 - Yellowjackets and Station 11 | 49:13 - Hawkeye (2021) | 57:36 - The Book of Boba Fett (2021) | 59:20 - The King’s Man (2021) | 1:02:00 - Saturday Morning All Star Hits | 1:04:00 - Don’t Look Up (2021) | 1:05:30 - Nightmare Alley (2021) | 1:06:30 - How To Talk To Girls At Parties (2017)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Staind - It’s Been A While | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Katy Perry - ET (live) | Brass Against - Wake Up | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Rob Somonsen - Chess - Ghostbusters Afterlife | Craig Wedren & Anna Waronker - No Return (Main Title Theme) - Yellowjackets | Christophe Beck & Mickael Paraskevas - Hawkeye’s Theme | Save The City - Hawkeye Soundtrack | Ludwig Göransson - The Book of Boba Fett | Matthew Margeson & Dominic Lewis - Knights of the Roundtable - The King’s Man | Clip from Saturday Morning All Star Hits s01e01 | Nicholas Britell - Don’t Look Up - Main Title Theme | Xiu Xiu & Mitski - Between the Breaths - How To Talk To Girls At Parties | Devo - Fresh
0:00 Intro 3:23 The Fresh S**t 4:52 Kick Ass Oregon History Podcast 9:50 Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History 12:55 Dirk Gentley’s Holistic Detective Agency 19:22 Brian actually does Black Friday 20:22 Shane Black 26:34 Are there criteria for Christmas Adjacent vs Christmas? 27:35 A Christmas Carol 2 28:28 Rocky 4 29:28 Gremlins 31:17 Home Alone 32:18 Skyfall 34:07 When Harry Met Sally 35:15 Better Off Dead 38:03 Batman Returns 38:51 Edward Scissorhands 39:43 Stalag 17 41:23 Brazil 44:35 Psycho 45:17 The Ref 49:25 Trading Places 52:08 In Bruges
Clips
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Hugo Winterhalter - The Christmas Song Cha Cha Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat “Weird Al” Yankovic - Sports Son Soylent Green Green Day - American Idiot Theme from Dirk Gentley’s Holistic Detective Agency Auralnauts - Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Party Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Die Hard Gremlins Better Off Dead Edward Scissorhands Geoff Muldaur - Brazil Brave Combo - Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah
This week the #MagHuge crew is in the Christmas spirit! We talk traditions, toys, holiday films and specials, and other wonderful memories. And also Justice League. Yeah, that. This is the 2nd half of the recording we made right before Thanksgiving 2017.
0:00 Intro 1:13 Good Omens 2:00 Justice League 9:45 Christmas with divorce (from kid and parent perspectives) 12:12 Santa 15:00 Getting and giving presents 18:10 Gag gifts 19:25 Toys! 19:35 Star Wars toys 25:10 LEGOs 27:00 Hot Wheels 28:45 Adventure people vs model rockets 29:50 Slime 30:27 Stomper 4x4 32:27 Transformers 34:36 Electronics and video games 35:35 Too many gifts and Christmas guilt 37:04 What Christmas is like for us today 38:11 A Christmas story marathon 38:40 Rare Exports 39:50 James Bond marathon 40:10 The Muppet Christmas Carol 40:55 Elf 41:15 Love, Actually 41:58 Baby It’s Cold Outside is creepy 42:50 Christmas Vacation 44:25 How The Grinch Stole Christmas 45:26 Rankin Bass, and also “Raging Rudolph” 47:47 Elmo Saves Christmas
CLIPS
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Billy May - Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat Danny Elfman - Hero’s Theme Danny Elfman - Batman Theme Danny Elfman/John Williams - Superman Theme R.E.M. - Superman Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Kenner Star Wars Early Bird Package Lego Movie Stomper 4x4 commercial Transformers Show theme Merlin toy commercial TBS A Christmas Story marathon commercial Rare Exports commercial Mad TV - Raging Rudolph Snow Miser / Heat Mister Song One Foot In Front Of The Other Carrie Fisher - Life Day Song
Christmas music is evergreen, and so is this episode from Black Friday of 2017. Once again, Brian subjects the rest of the MagHuge crew (and you!) to his insane taste in christmas music! Click the link to play the home game!
Here's a link to the Awesome/Bad Christmas playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/quebedox/playlist/4JVVzDtl3AtASAtj99KKKl
| 0:00 - Introductions | 2:50 - The Punisher | 4:03 - Hockey Music | 6:55 - The Punisher again, and the other Marvel Netflix shows | 12:57 - Murder on the Orient Express | 14:57 - The Good Place | 18:10 - Thanksgiving plans | 22:52 - Butter Day | 26:16 - Black Friday | 32:19 - When should the Christmas decorations go up? | 33:20 - Christmas Music!
| Clips: | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Rush Coil - O Holy Night | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat | Tyler Bates - The Punisher | Stompin Tom Connors - The Hockey Song | Warren Zevon - Hit Somebody | Rick and Morty - True Level | Imagine Dragons - Believer | Theme from “The Good Place” | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Thousand Foot Krutch - Jingle Bell Rock | KJ-52 - It's Christmas Time | Joseph Spence - Santa Claus Is Comin to Town | Run-DMC - Christmas In Hollis | Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You | Otis Redding - White Christmas | Mannheim Steamroller - Deck The Halls | Mannheim Steamroller - Carol of the Bells | Woody Phillips - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy | Sarah McLachlan - The First Noel / Mary Mary | Bing Crosby - White Christmas | Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka | John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) | Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time | Ringo remembers Christmas 1979 | No Doubt - Oi To The World | Shonen Knife - Space Christmas | The Cocteau Twins - Winter Wonderland | The Cocteau Twins - Frosty The Snowman | Justin Bieber ft. Busta Rhymes - Drummer Boy
Merry Christmas, $h!tter was full! In 1989 the Griswolds returned for another attempt to put the Vacation lightning back into a smaller bottle, and the results were… shall we say, uneven? The holidays are the backdrop for a family gathering of epic comic mayhem, or so the National Lampoon gang would lead us to believe. Instead, we got a slew of PG-13 dad jokes, Chevy Chase pratfalls, and the return of Cousin Eddie so we can laugh at all them poor, dumb rednecks who gots no class. Over the last 30+ years this movie has clawed its way into the must-see Christmas Movie Classics Pantheon, and we just don’t get it. Yup, here is our (probably unpopular) hot take on one of the true slogs of the season, Christmas Vacation. If you love it, great! If you don’t, welcome aboard fellow Grinches! Happy Holidays to you all!
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:05 - Bob’s Burgers (FX) | 6:30 - Dalgliesh (Acorn TV) | 14:00 - Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (2021) | 19:10 - tick, tick… BOOM! (2021) | 27:00 - Cowboy Bebop (Netflix, 2021) | 31:45 - Christmas Vacation (1989)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Kathryn Jones - Christmas Vacation | Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Loren Bouchard - Bob’s Burgers Theme | Music from Dalgliesh S01E01 | Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Original Album Cast - Don’t Even Know It | Andrew Garfield, Joshua Henry, Vanessa Hudgens, Robin de Jesus, Alexandra Shipp & M.J. Rodrigues - 30/90 (from tick, tick… BOOM!) | Andrew Garfield & Moondance Diner Ensemble - Sunday - tick, tick… BOOM! | Team America World Police - Everyone Has AIDS | Andrew Garfield & Vanessa Hudgens - Therapy - tick, tick… BOOM! | Seatbelts - Tank! | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
We're not going to fall for the banana in the tailpipe...but we are going to enjoy this week's talk about the king of mega-gigantic-blockbuster action comedies that helped define the 80's, Beverly Hills Cop. This pop juggernaut of the Me Decade spawned two sequels and has a soundtrack full of bangers, and it firmly cemented the star power of Eddie Murphy forever. But does it hold up today? The heat is on as we find out!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:00 - American Scandal podcast (https://wondery.com/shows/american-scandal/) | 9:10 - Vancouver flooding | 11:00 - Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) | 18:30 - Doctor Who: Flux (2021) | 25:00 - Fleabag (2016) | 28:20 - Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and its sequels
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Clips from the American Scandal Podcast - Season 33, Episode 1 | Rob Somonsen - Chess - Ghostbusters: Afterlife | The Naked Gun 2½- The Smell of Fear Trailer | Doctor Who theme | clip from In The Loop | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Staind - It’s Been A While | Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On | The Pointer Sisters - Neutron Dance | Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl
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
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
What do you get when you combine actors who are past their prime with special effects that are past their prime, in support of a literally ancient story? If it’s 1981, you get fantasy classic Clash of the Titans! Join the MagHuge crew as they revisit their inner 10 year olds, who dreamt of making epics with a super 8 camera and the toys in their basements. Does it hold up? Listen and find out!
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:00 - The Sparks Brothers (2021) | 11:00 - Sex Education (Netflix) | 17:00 - The French Dispatch (2021) | 28:50 - Army Of Thieves (2021) | 31:00 - Clash of the Titans (1981)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Lawrence Rosenthal - Clash of the Titans Theme | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Sparks - When Do I Get To Sing My Way? | Sparks - Amateur Hour | Sparks - The Number One Song In Heaven | Sparks - Angst In My Pants | Ezra Furman - Love You So Bad | Alexandre Desplat - Animated Car Chase - The French Dispatch | Dr John - Right Place Wrong Time | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
“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)
Whatever you do, don't fall asleep...until you listen to our latest podcast all about Wes Craven's horror classic-cum-Freudian-facepunch - A Nightmare on Elm Street. Freddy Krueger burst onto the scene in 1984 with his razor-tipped glove and evil grin to hunt us in our dreams and became an instant horror icon in the process. Sure, the films maybe got a little goofy as their budgets increased, but damn if those deaths weren't always some of the most horrifically creative demises ever filmed, which is why we dig it. One, two, Freddy's coming for you…
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:30 - The Flight Attendant (HBO Max, 2020) | 11:00 - Doom Patrol (HBO Max, Season 2) | 15:10 - No Time To Die (2021) | 21:10 - Promising Young Woman (2020) | 23:45 - Squid Game (Netflix, 2021) | 32:12 - Hockey! | 34:30 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and sequels
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Dokken - Dream Warriors | Clips from A Nightmare on Elm Street | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Blake Neely - The Flight Attendant - Main Titles | Stacey Q - Two of Hearts | Clint Mansell, Kevin Kiner & Sean Kiner - Main Titles (Doom Patrol) | Billie Eilish - No Time To Die | FLETCHER - Last Laugh (from Promising Young Woman) | Jung Jae II - Way Back then (from Squid Game) | Stompin’ Tom Connors - The Hockey Song | The Regrettes - Monday | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Charles Bernstein - Main Title (A Nightmare on Elm Street) | John Carpenter - Halloween Main Theme | Friday the 13th - Ch Ch Ch Ah Ah Ah | Charles Bernstein - School Horror / Stay Awake
Welcome to One More Freshitravaganza - literally a whole show about EVERYTHING and NOTHING all at once! We're back from vacation, and that means it's time for another lazy free-for-all of extemporaneous hilarity in lieu of an official topic. Yep, all the Movies, TV, Music and more that we could fit into a single podcast already bursting at the seams with old men yelling at clouds! Don't miss it.
| 0:00 - Intros | 8:00 - Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) | 14:00 - What If? | 18:40 - Black Widow (2021) | 29:00 - Morris Day and the Time (Live) | 32:50 - Austin City Lights | 35:00 - What We Do In The Shadows (Season 3) | 38:53 - Father Ted | 41:10 - Work In Progress (2020) | 46:00 - Hamilton (Touring, 2021) | 52:35 - West Side Story (2021) Trailer | 55:30 - The Many Saints of Newark (2021) | 1:01:00 - Garbage / Alanis Morissette (Live)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Kool & the Gang - Fresh | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Eminem - Venom | Little Simz - Venom (Remix) | Laura Karpman - What If? S1E1 Credits Music | Fear of Pop - I Paid My Money | Morris Day and the Time - Cool (Live) | Lastochka - Leningrad (from What We Do In The Shadows) | Clip from Work In Progress | Leslie Odom, Jr. - Wait For It - Hamilton | Trailer for West Side Story (2021) | Alabama 3 - Woke up This Morning (The Sopranos Mix) | Garbage - Push It (Live) | Garbage - Stupid Girl (Live) | Garbage - Wicked Ways / Personal Jesus (Live) | Oasis - Wonderwall | Alanis Morissette - You Learn (Live) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
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
Holy cow, we’ve made 200 episodes of this thing! This week the MagHuge crew goes back to the film that everyone blames for the modern superhero extravaganza: Blade! THRILL as we talk about yet another movie that somehow at least one of us is the last human on Earth to have watched! GASP IN AMAZEMENT at all the other movies we talk about including Role Models and Pan’s Labyrinth! BOGGLE YOUR MIND as we set the wayback machine all the way back to episode 9 of the podcast to explain an ongoing inside joke! Exclamation points!!!!!
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:35 - Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories | 7:50 - Role Models (2008) | 12:30 - Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) | 17:20 - The Brass Teapot (2012) | 19:45 - Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (2004) | 22:30 - Humphrey Bogart | 30:05 - Beginner’s Guide to the Magnificently Huge Podcast: Why do we say “Incredible Hulk”? | 35:00 - Blade (1998)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Tony! Toni! Toné! - Anniversary | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Tim and Eric Theme Song | Clip from Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories | Craig Wedren - Main Titles - Role Models | Javier Navarrete - Pan’s Labyrinth Lullaby | The Amoeba People - Lovely Dark and Warm | Andrew Hewitt - Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace Theme | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Mark Isham - Somebody’s Gonna Take You Out - Blade | Pump Panel Remix - New Order - Confusion - Blade Blood Rave | The Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit
Do you remember the 1992 movie Freejack? Because we sure don’t. We have vague recollections of seeing it back in the day, but recall absolutely nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. It’s a giant void, this movie - a black hole. It allegedly stars Emilio Estevez, Anthony Hopkins, Mick Jagger and Rene Russo - which does nothing to jog our memory holes. Something about time-traveling race car drivers from 1991 that get zapped into the dystopian future of 2009 where billionaires need to implant their personal A.I. essences into these unsuspecting host bodies? We honestly don’t know, and still don’t. Join us for a fresh look back at the unmemorable sci-fi actioner called Freejack, a lost 90s artifact if ever there was.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:00 - Eric’s trip to Cabo | 6:15 - Dune (Herbert) | 7:45 - Kate (Netflix, 2021) | 11:34 - Only Murders In The Building (Hulu, 2021) | 17:20 - Mermaids (1990) | 20:15 - The Other Two | 24:43 - Freejack (1992)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Scorpions - Hit Between The Eyes | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Band Maid - Choose Me | Ben Folds Five - Kate | Siddhartha Khosla - Only Murders In The Building Theme | Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy | Chase Dreams - Marry U at Recess - The Other Two | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Trevor Jones - Freejack Main Title | Jesus Jones - International Bright Young Thing
Not all blockbuster movies are garbage. Some of them are just right. Everything the preview promised you you’d see is kept, the feeling you hoped you’d have by the end is earned… In short, some blockbusters are worthy of their hype. This week we reminisce about the best big budget (sometimes) Summer Blockbusters we’ve seen, and why they were a cut above. We’ll also share all the stuff we’ve been enjoying this week in our Fresh Shit segment, and just make general asses of ourselves... again. It’s yet another great show for a change!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:46 - American Horror Story: Double Feature | 7:30 - Dune | 14:45 - Snow Crash | 19:00 - Veruca Salt | 20:30 - Immersive Van Gogh | 23:00 - Psychonauts 2 (2021) | 24:45 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) | 32:50 - Blockbuster Movies | 34:15 - Batman (1989) | 39:30 - Star Wars (1977) | 41:00 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | 43:30 - Jurassic Park (1993) | 44:22 - Inception (2010) | 45:15 - Aliens (1986) | 52:25 - The Dark Knight (2008) | 53:30 - The Avengers (2012) | 55:40 - Total Recall (1990)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Alan Silvestri - Avengers Endgame | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Charlie Clouser - Double Feature - American Horror Story | Veruca Salt - Seether | Veruca Salt - All Hail Me | Peter McConnell - Psychonauts 2 Theme | Joel P West - Xu Shang-Chi | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Danny Elfman - Batman Theme | John Williams - Wild Signals - Close Encounters of the Third Kind | James Horner London Symphony Orchestra - Bishop’s Countdown - Aliens | Alan Silvestri - The Avengers
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
At first glance, 1996 was kind of a bland year for movies, eh? At second glance, it’s still a bit, well... meh. The Top 10 moneymakers were all straight up studio products and a bit lifeless, while the Oscar contenders are mostly forgettable. If the 90’s had a crack in which to fall through, 1996 is certainly that year. Our challenge, then, was for each of us to bring our Top Five Movies of 1996 and see if we could find some elusive spice in an otherwise milquetoast cinema year.
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:30 - The White Lotus | 10:15 - Star Trek: Lower Decks | 16:40 - Death’s Door | 17:20 - Twelve Minutes | 21:10 - Reminiscence (2021) | 25:30 - Lassiter (1983) | 31:00 - Movies of 1996 | 32:45 - The Top 10 movies of 1996 | 50:00 - Eric’s Top 5 movies of 1996 | 1:05:30 - Brian’s Top 5 movies of 1996 | 1:10:25 - Chris’s Top 5 movies of 1996
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Cristobal Tapia de Veer - The White Lotus Theme | Westlake - Star Trek: Lower Decks Theme | Neil Bones - I - Twelve Minutes | Ramin Djawadi - Going On A Journey - Reminiscence | Ken Thorne - Beware Of The Winners (Lassiter’s Theme) | Taco - Lassiter’s Theme: Beware Of The Winners | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from Ransom (1996) | Slim Whitman TV Commercial | Slim Whitman - Indian Love Call
Here’s a link to the “Honest Trailers” episode about “Loki” that was referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHcfWy4BWIk
If you didn’t like “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” it’s only because you didn’t see all of these other Indiana Jones adventurer knockoffs in the 1980's that were hilariously, misguidedly, and unrepentantly bad. This week, from the decade that brought you Twisted Sister, Reaganomics, television’s “Small Wonder,” and the crack cocaine epidemic, comes the Indiana Jones rip-offs of the 1980s!
We also cover our usual assortment of shows and films we watched this week, in another exciting round of Fresh Shit, including What If...? and Free Guy.
| 0:00 - Intros | 8:15 - What If...? (2021) | 15:30 - Public Service Announcement: get rid of your Gigabyte P750 GM Power Supply! | 16:25 - Schmigadoon! (2021) | 21:23 - Free Guy (2021) | 32:50 - Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami (2021) | 35:10 - Blood Red Sky (2021) | 39:45 - Indiana Jones Knockoffs | 42:00 - King Soloman’s Mines (1985) and Allan Quatermain And The Lost City Of Gold (1986) | 47:00 - Romancing The Stone (1984) | 52:50 - Hunters of the Golden Cobra (1982) | 55:10 - Tales of the Golden Monkey (TV) | 57:55 - The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of Yik Yak (1984) | 59:45 - Armour of God (1986) and Operation Condor (1991) | 1:01:10 - Firewalker (1986) | 1:03:40 - Jake Speed (1986) | 1:06:15 - The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Walter Murphy - Theme from Raiders of the Lost Ark (Disco version) | Jerry Fielding - Hogan’s Heroes March | Soap Theme Song | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Laura Karpman - What If? S1E1 Credits Music | Cinco Paul - Schmigadoon! | Cinco Paul - Corn Puddin’ - Schmigadoon! | Mariah Carey - Fantasy | Pitbull - Blood Sport - from Cocaine Cowboys The Kings Of Miami | Dascha Dauenhauer - Old Vampire - Blood Red Sky | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Jerry Goldsmith - King Solomon’s Mines | Alan Silvestri - Main Title - Romancing The Stone Theme | Frank Denson - Tales of the Gold Monkey Theme | Pierre Bachelet - Gwendoline | Chris Babida - End Titles - Operation Condor | Gary Chang - End Credits - Firewalker | Mark Snow - Jake Speed | Andy Clark - What Is That Noise? - The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck
This week we delve into the 2nd most blatantly sampled song in the world. It just wouldn’t be the late 80’s / early 90’s without the rhythm found in James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” underneath everything from DJs with mad skills to pasty white dudes with absolutely no skills whatsoever. We also review James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad”. Check out the show! It’s a trip, it’s got a funky beat, and you can bug out to it!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:55 - Greg Abbott Wants You Dead | 7:45 - The Suicide Squad (2021) [Mild SPOILERS] | 19:44 - Beats, Rhymes, and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (2020) | 21:50 - Jungle Cruise (2021) | 25:30 - Miracle Workers: Oregon Trail (2021) | 27:10 - Wellington Paranormal | 28:20 - Behind The Music | 31:25 - The Ubiquitous Funky Drummer Breakbeat
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | James Brown - Funky Drummer | Mike McCoy - Greg Abbott Wants You Dead | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Mike Murphy - So This Is The Famous Suicide Squad (from Suicide Squad) | A Tribe Called Quest - The Hop | James Newton Howard - Jungle Cruise Suite | James Newton Howard - Nothing Else Matters (feat. Metallica) - Jungle Cruise | Clip from Miracle Workers: Oregon Trail | Jermaine Clement - Wellington Paranormal Theme Music | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | The Winstons - Amen, Brother | N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton | Grandmaster Flash - Fastest Man Alive (1986) | Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx | Derek B - Rock The Beat (1987) | Bob James - Take Me To The Mardi Gras | Sinéad O'Connor - I Am Stretched On Your Grave (1990) | Fat Boys - Crushin’ (1987) | Public Enemy - Bring the Noize (1987) | Public Enemy - Fight The Power (1989) | D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Hip Hop Dancer’s Theme (1988) | D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Pump Up the Bass (1988) | N.W.A. - F**k Tha Police (1988) | N.W.A. - Quiet on tha Set (1988) | Run D.M.C. - Run’s House (1988) | New Kids On The Block - Games | Vanilla Ice - Stop That Train | CB4 - Straight Outta Locash | Incredible Bongo Band - Apache | Pop Will Eat Itself - Not Now James, We’re Busy (1989) | George Michael - Freedom! ‘90 (1990) | Madonna - Justify My Love (1990) | Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever (1990) | L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out | Tasty Taste - Granny Says Kick Yo Black Ass - Fear of a Black Hat | De La Soul - The Magic Number (1989) | Clip of James Earl Jones doing CNN bumpers | James L. Venable - Powerpuff Girls Theme
Does anyone watch classic Hollywood movies anymore? Because this round we got a doozy for you… 1940’s The Philadelphia Story, starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart in the glorious screwball comedy from director George Cukor. This is by far the oldest movie we’ve ever featured on the show, and while Chris and Eric both enjoy it immensely and have seen it many times, this was Brian’s first time with it. So essentially you’ll get the established dogma about an inarguable film classic infused with a very unvarnished take from someone less taken by its charms. Snappy banter and farcical confusion ensue, and there may or may not be a love triangle that gets resolved by the end. Cue the booze soaked sophistication of the hoi polloi, kids, because this one’s a keeper!
| 0:00 - Intros | 9:00 - Real Dictators (Podcast) | 14:00 - The Walking Dead | 18:50 - Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021) | 26:00 - The Green Knight (2021) | 32:15 - Jungle Cruise (2021) | 38:55 - The Philadelphia Story (1940)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Franz Waxman - The Philadelphia Story | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Clip from Real Dictators | Rodrigo Garcia - The Walking Dead Theme | Martin Todsharow - Behind The Mask - Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins | Daniel Hart - Your Head Is On Your Neck, Dear Lady - The Green Knight | Daniel Hart - Are You Real, Or Are You A Spirit? - The Green Knight | James Newton Howard - Jungle Cruise Suite | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra - Well, Did You Evah (from “High Society”)
This week we take a look at filmmakers who should probably have hung it up a long time ago. You know what we’re talking about too - remember the last time you were watching a film by someone you used to like, only to say, “What the hell is going on here? When did Tim Burton get so uninteresting and aggressively banal?” I mean, any time I see a bad film by someone who used to be worth watching, I sure think of Tim Burton. Or Clint Eastwood. Or Steven Spielberg. Or a number of (it always seems to be) men who just need to cut it out and start making commercials and music videos. It’s over, hammer!
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:20 - The Hunt (2020) | 13:40 - Birds of Prey: Or The Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn (2020) | 18:00 - The Extra Man (2010) | 21:00 - The Stand In (2020) | 23:50 - Bloodborne (PS4) | 28:20 - Lovecraft Country (2020) | 35:50 - Directors In Decline
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | James Blunt - Should I Give It All Up | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Nathan Barr - End Credits - The Hunt | Doja Cat - Boss Bitch | Trailer for The Extra Man (2010) | Ryan Amon - Bloodborne - Omen | David Fenn - Death’s Door | Alice Smith - Sinner Man | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Imagine Dragons - Nothing Left To Say
Boy did we pick the wrong week to stop sniffing glue! Brian challenged the MagHuge crew to jump feet-first into a movie none of us had ever seen, and it did not disappoint. Thanks to some other trippy 70’s movies from previous podcasts the HBO Max recommendation engine suggested we watch House, a 1977 horror movie from Japanese studio Toho - best known for the Godzilla movies. What we expected was schlock. What we got was practically an art film. Check out our reactions to that. Also, Loki and Black Widow get some time in the barrel.
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:40 - Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) | 10:30 - 1984 (Orwell, 1948) | 12:30 - The St. Francis Dam Failure https://youtu.be/-ibvUxv1-lM | 15:15 - This is Pop: The Brill Building in 4 Songs | 20:00 - Greenland (2020) | 24:00 - Loki (SPOILERS) | 29:15 - Black Widow (2021) | 35:40 - House (1977)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Pop Will Eat Itself - Hit the Hi-Tech Groove | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Frank Ilfman - Goonfight at Gutterball Corral - Gunpowder Milkshake | The Archies - Sugar, Sugar | Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do | P!nk - Get The Party Started | David Buckley - Imperfect Lives - Greenland | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Lorne Balfe - The First Bite Is the Deepest - Black Widow | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from House (1977) | Asei Kobayashi - House Main Theme
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
This week, we tackle the genre of the biopic. Stories of famous people’s lives, only more interesting than documentaries. Sometimes. Other times they’re vanity projects of actors who want you to equate them with their idols. Don’t believe me? Listen to today’s show and we’ll prove it!
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:00 - Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (PS5) | 6:45 - 300 (2006) | 12:30 - Your Honor (2020) | 13:15 - The Many Saints of Newark (2021) | 16:05 - Hacks (HBO, 2021) | 17:05 - Jack Reacher | 22:15 - No Sudden Move (2021) | 26:45 - Biopics
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Social Distortion - Story of My Life | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Mark Mothersbaugh & Wataru Hokoyama - Rift Apart - Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart | Tyler Bates - To Victory - 300 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Mountain - Serve Somebody | David Holmes - No Sudden Move | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Carpenters - We’ve Only Just Begun
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
Strap in for some pure escapist fun, because we’re celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Rocketeer! Based on a popular indie comic, The Rocketeer is basically Indiana Jones Meets Iron Man done as an earnest, cynicism-free homage to the 1930’s movie adventure serials of yesteryear. Put out by Disney, this was supposed to be the start of a big franchise. Sadly, it landed with a mild thud amid some very stiff competition in the summer of 1991. Which is too bad, really, because The Rocketeer is flippin’ awesome fun, kids. A zippy-fast joyride that doesn’t wear out its welcome, this near-perfect summer popcorn flick is best known now as the audition reel that landed director Joe Johnston the gig for Captain America: The First Avenger. And it is one of our favorite movies from any era. So say all of us!
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:30 - Luca (Pixar, 2021) | 16:25 - Startup (Crackle, 2016) | 18:20 - Wallander | 22:40 - Black Summer (Netflix, 2019) | 26:20 - 1917 (2020) | 33:23 - The Rocketeer (1991)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Devo - Human Rocket | A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? | Beastie Boys - Intergalactic | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Dan Romer - Portorosso - Luca Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Tristan Clopet - Lightbulb - Startup Soundtrack | Emily Barker - Nostalgia (Wallander version) | Black Summer Theme Music | Thomas Newman - Up the Down Trench - 1917 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Melora Hardin - Begin The Beguine - The Rocketeer | James Horner - Main Title - The Rocketeer | James Horner - End Titles - The Rocketeer
For years, we’ve all found something in a movie that was incorrect - something with it’s own canon, wrong historical references, or just stuff so weird you wonder how it wound up in there in the first place. But what if these things were intentional, put there to hint at a larger universe just out of view? Fan theories work to cover mistakes by creating more interesting possibilities. Today, we share some of our favorites.
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:05 - Loki (Disney+, 2021) | 12:30 - Joe Walsh | 16:50 - Habitat For Humanity | 18:00 - Hacks (HBO, 2021) | 22:00 - Bo Burnham Inside (Netflix, 2021) | 26:20 - Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street | 28:40 - The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021) | 31:30 - Goofy Fan Film Theories
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Natalie Holt - Loki Theme | Joe Walsh - A Life Of Illusion | Joe Walsh - Desperado (Live) | Joe Walsh - Life’s Been Good | Etta James - Fire | Bo Burnham - Shit | Bo Burnham - Welcome To The Internet | Alti Orvarsson - The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | “Weird Al” Yankovic - Everything You Know Is Wrong
We’ve had enough. Enough of the grim. Enough of the dark. Enough of the grimdark! There’s only so many movies about depression, stress, and violence we can tolerate. Reality is depressing enough. So this week we’re looking for some pick-me-ups. We’re talking about movies that lift the spirits. Fun, dammit! FUN! Also Cruella I guess.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:30 - Alexander (2004) | 9:00 - Cruella (2021) | 20:45 - The A Team | 29:30 - Upload (2020) | 33:30 - Happy and Fun movies! | 35:00 - Singin’ in the Rain (1952) | 44:30 - 50 First Dates (2004) | 50:30 - The Muppet Movie (1979)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Vangelis - Across the Mountains - Alexander Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Florence + the Machine - Call me Cruella | Deep Purple - Hush | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | John Swihart - The A Team Title Theme | Joseph Stephens - Upload Main Title Theme | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from Singin’ in the Rain | Jason Mraz - I Melt With You | Kermit & Fozzie - Movin’ Right Along - The Muppet Movie | Gonzo - I’m Going To Go Back There Someday - The Muppet Movie | Kermit - Rainbow Connection - The Muppet Movie | Kermit & Rowlf - I Hope That Somethin Better Comes Along | Samantha Fox - I Wanna Have Some Fun
Zack Snyder, you got your zombie movie on my heist flick! Or did you get your heist flick on this crazy new film mashup, Army of the Dead? We’re putting a team together for a smash-and-grab spoilerific review of the 2.5-hour long zombie-heist-action-comedy romp no one asked for, from a director who is notorious for being all style, little substance. So strap in for some Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Magnificently Huge style! Because what becomes undead in Vegas apparently borrows heavily from literally dozens of other, better movies for the breakout popcorn hit of early 2021!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:00 - Highlander reboot rumors | 7:30 - The Shadow (1994) | 12:15 - Wrath of Man (2021) | 18:45 - Startup (Netflix) | 22:50 - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Disney+, 2021) | 28:20 - Army of the Dead (2021) [SPOILERS]
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Cranberries - Zombie | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Jerry Goldsmith - The Shadow | Chris Benstead, Chamber Orchestra of London & Tom Kilworth - Wrath of Man | Clip from Startup S1E1: Seed Money | Henry Jackson - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Theme | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation (JXL Radio Edit Remix)
If you had a time machine, and someone else already went back in time to kill Hitler, when would you go? That’s the tortured premise we’re going with this week, as each of the boys reveals their own choice destination - based on that year’s music, movies, TV shows, video games and noteworthy disasters. What would be YOUR year?
| 0:00 - Intros | 2:30 - Tenet (2020) | 8:30 - Star Trek Discovery (season 3) | 11:00 - American Idol | 15:30 - The Mitchells vs The Machines (Netflix, 2021) | 18:20 - Staged (series 2) | 21:45 - Our Favorite Years | 24:25 - 1977 | 32:30 - 1982 | 51:00 - 1984
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | KC & the Sunshine Band - That’s The Way (I Like It) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Ludwig Göransson - RAINY NIGHT IN TALLINN | Jeff Russo - Main Title (aired Version) - Star Trek Discovery (Original Series Soundtrack) | Caleb Kennedy - Nowhere | Mark Mothersbaugh - I’m A Mitchell! - The Mitchells vs The Machines | Lambeth Wind Orchestra - Alex Baranowski - Music from Staged | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Donna Summer - I Feel Love | Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf | The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted By Louis Clark - Hooked On Classics, Pts. 1 & 2 | Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever | Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax | The Art of Noise - Close (To The Edit) | Alphaville - Forever Young
Sometimes they’re just hoping you weren’t paying attention. Sometimes creative control changes hands and people want to take a new direction. Sometimes it’s just a craven cash grab. Every time, they’re counting on us to be stupid. To not care. To...not have the internet yet. Once upon a time they could get away with it, but IT WAS ALL A DREAM! This week the MagHuge crew talks retcons.
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:30 - ios14, Facebook, and privacy | 8:30 - The Stand (Paramount Plus, 2021) | 10:30 - Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix, 2021) | 11:45 - Lady Snowblood (1973) | 14:15 - Eating Raoul (1982) | 16:30 - In The Heights (2021) | 24:00 - Retcons
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Tears for Fears - Change | The Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Clip from The Stand | Stephanie Economou - Jupiter’s Legacy Theme | Meiko Kaji - Flower of Carnage (Shura no Hana) - Lady Snowblood | Jon Beres - Exactly Like You - Eating Raoul | Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the cast of In The Heights - In The Heights | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Joystick! - Retcon
Episode 181 - Fourth Films in a Franchise
Hey, The Magnificently Huge Podcast officially turns four years old with this one! Since the fourth time's the charm (or however the saying goes), we’ll be yukking it up about the fourth entries in some of the most (in)famous movie franchises of all time. Fourth films are seldom needed, often pointless, usually lazy, and rare is the entry that transcends the IP. It’s the good, the bad and the downright ugly for series chapters that either either helped extend the life of a franchise, or killed the brand irrevocably with terminal sequelitis. As always, there are a few hidden gems amid the pile of shameless money grabs, so buckle up! And may the Fourths be with you!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:10 - Paramount Plus is overrun with Alex Kurtzman | 13:30 - The Darjeeling Limited (2007) | 17:00 - Monster Hunter (2021) | 21:30 - Returnal (PS5, 2021) | 24:15 - Mack Bolan books | 29:00 - The Girl With All The Gifts (2016) | 30:15 - Fourth Films in a Franchise
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Altered Images - Happy Birthday | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Morton Stevens - Hawaii Five 0 Theme | Satyajit Ray - Teen Kanya | Paul Haslinger - Monster Hunter Main Theme | The Haxan Cloak - The Forest - Returnal | Cristobal Tapia de Veer - Gifted - The Girl with All the Gifts | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | John Williams - Prelude Main Title March - Superman The Movie | Clip from Superman IV: The Quest For Peace | Michael Kamen & Eric Clapton & David Sanborn - Don’t Turn - Lethal Weapon 4 | John Cafferty - Heart’s On Fire - Rocky IV | Tuesday Knight - Running From This Nightmare - Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master | Edge of Ettiquete - I Hate You - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Michael Giacchino - Light The Fuse - Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol | Junkie XL - Chapter Doof - Mad Max Fury Road | Smashing Pumpkins - The End Is The Beginning Is The End
Movies in this genre are about kids having their last moments of childhood. They are typically comedies but have some element of bittersweet, usually because the middle aged white man writing it misses his youth. The result is something that makes young people terrified of age, and old people sad to be old. Kind of like this podcast!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:55 - Mr. Mercedes (Peacock, 2021) | 7:10 - The Stand (Paramount Plus, 2021) | 13:35 - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) | 17:20 - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (s1e5 2021) | 23:00 - Mortal Kombat (1995) vs Mortal Kombat (2021) | 33:00 - Films about The Last Hurrah Of Youth
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Bowling For Soup - High School Never Ends | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | T Bone Burnett - It's Not Too Late | Clip from The Stand | Alex Wurman - Cautionary Tale - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | Henry Jackson - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Theme | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | The Immortals - Techno Syndrome | Clip from Doctor Who | VWLS - Emergence (Mortal Kombat 2021) | Benjamin Wallfisch - Techno Syndrome 2021 - Mortal Kombat Official Soundtrack | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from Fandango (1985) | Simple Minds - Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Hey, look! It's another music nostalgia show about death and the 90's… only fun! We revisit the soundtrack to a decade full of great songs and the artists who eventually left this earth way too soon, thereby ruining any chance of a reunion tour. Thanks, heroin! Cheers, depression! Kudos, irony! SPOILER: There were other bands besides Nirvana back then, kids. So fire up our mixtape salute to surviving the post-grunge world with a giant Gen-X shrug!
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2pnNl40hbTfylUGSkynoWt?si=fMqmyFXbTNOI5Mxx5UtpqA
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/maghuge-179-all-my-90s-bands-are-dead/pl.u-okraFR0ZPlz
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:10 - Mr. Mercedes (Peacock, 2021) | 8:45 - DC Titans (HBOMax, 2018) | 11:30 - Shoplifters of the World (2021) | 15:40 - Thunder Force (Netflix, 2021) | 20:45 - Seberg (Amazon, 2019) | 24:10 - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (s1e5 2021) | 26:30 - A Way Out / It Takes Two | 32:40 - All My 90’s Bands Are Dead | 35:40 - Curt Kobain / Nirvana | 41:45 - Layne Staley, Mike Starr / Alice in Chains | 45:50 - Adam Yauch / Beastie Boys | 48:00 - Britpop that didn’t die | 50:30 - Chris Cornell / Soundgarden | 55:20 - Shannon Hoon / Blind Melon | 58:00 - Lisa “Left Eye” Lopez / TLC | 58:55 - Scott Weiland, Chester Bennington / Stone Temple Pilots, Linkin Park | 1:01:15 - Delores O’Riordan / The Cranberries | 1:03:45 - Garbage is still around | 1:08:00 - Peter Steele / Type O Negative | 1:08:45 - Bradley Nowell / Sublime
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died | Missy Elliott - Work It | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | T Bone Burnett - It's Not Too Late | Kevin Kiner - DC Titans Theme Song | The Smiths - Shoplifters Of The World Unite | The Smiths - Panic | Corey Taylor, Lzzy Hale, Scott Ian, Tina Guo, iZLER, Dave Lombardo - Thunder Force (Music From the Netflix Film) | Jed Kurzel - Riots - Seberg | Henry Jackson - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Theme | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Nirvana - Come As You Are | Foo Fighters - There Goes My Hero | Alice in Chains - Them Bones | Alice in Chains - The One You Know | Pulp - Common People | Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun | Chris Cornell - You Know My Name | Blind Melon - No Rain | TLC - Creep | Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline | Linkin Park - One Step Closer | Garbage - Push It | Weezer - We Wish You A Merry Christmas | Type O Negative - Love You to Death | Sublime - Santeria | Shakespear’s Sister - Heroine
The 21st Century has given us plenty of great films so far. Some are inarguable classics, even. But we're here today instead to talk about the more obscure gems that maybe fell through the cracks a little bit over the years. So buckle up for our unusual list of very good movies of the past 20 years that don't get the recognition we think they deserve.
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:00 - Bunch Of Kunst (2017) - Sleaford Mods | 7:45 - Robot Jox (1989) | 14:25 - PAC-MAN 99 (Bandai Namco, 2021) | 17:50 - DC Titans (HBOMax, 2018) | 22:40 - Mr. Mercedes (Peacock, 2021) | 27:00 - Underrated Films of the 21st Century | 29:05 - 13 going on 30 (2004) | 32:35 - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) | 36:00 - Moon (2009) | 41:30 - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) | 42.25 - 1408 (2007) | 43:15 - The Salton Sea (2002) | 43:55 - Juan of the Dead (2011) | 45:05 - The Hours (2002) | 47:25 - Take Shelter (2011) | 48:40 - Down With Love (2003) | 51:55 - Dredd (2012) | 54:40 - American Splendor (2003) | 57:25 - Death at a Funeral (2007) | 59:00 - Logan Lucky (2017)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Beastie Boys - Ch-Check It Out | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Sleaford Mods - Tied Up In Nottz | Frédéric Talgorn - Alexander vs. Achilles - Robot Jox | Shinji Hosoe Ayako Saso - Pac-Man 99 - Top 10 theme | Clip from “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” (2019) | Kevin Kiner - DC Titans Theme Song | T Bone Burnett - It's Not Too Late | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Theodore Shapiro- Swings - 13 Going On 30 - Original Motion Picture Score | Clip from “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” (2002) | Clint Mansell - Welcome to Lunar Industries - Moon Soundtrack | Philip Glass - The Hours | Clip from “Real Time with Bill Maher” | Judy Garland - Down With Love | Paul Leonard-Morgan - Lockdown - Dredd Original Film Soundtrack | Mark Suozzo - Time Passes Strangely - American Splendor | Clip from “American Splendor” (2003) | Murray Gold - Death at a Funeral | With Lions - Down We Go | Lord David Sutch - Flashing Lights
If kaiju is wrong, we don't wanna be right. So here's our big dumb look at another big dumb movie about more big dumb monsters fighting bigly and dumbly because... reasons. Time to pick a side once and for all: Are you Team Godzilla or Team Kong? Dat axe, tho…
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:45 - Extract (2009) | 7:45 - Outriders (Square Enix, 2021) | 12:25 - The Irregulars (Netflix, 2021) | 16:45 - Classic 8-bit and 16-bit gaming | 20:15 - Urban Strike (EA, Sega Genesis, 1994) | 22:45 - Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Nintendo, SNES, 1996) | 24:40 - Starfleet Academy (Interplay, SNES, 1994) | 27:45 - Godzilla vs Kong (2021) [SPOILERS]
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Akira Ifukube - MainTitle (from the Movie “Terror of MechaGodzilla”) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Trailer for Extract (2009) | Inon Zur - Outriders - Main Theme | Paul Haslinger - The Irregulars End Credits Theme | Don Veca - Urban Strike Theme | Yoko Shimomura, Koji Kondo, Nobuo Uematsu - Happy Adventure, Delightful Adventure - Super Mario RPG | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Clip from Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gamera Song
It’s spring break! That time of year when college students flock to beaches and parties, to get drunk, get wild, and… get tricked into thinking this is normal. In truth, it’s a week of wasted money, alcohol poisoning, assaults, and lost expectations. So that’s this week’s show! Because a lot of people are searching “Spring Break,” and we love it when people actually hear this stuff we do!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:10 - Brockmire (IFC, Hulu) | 10:25 - Ghosts ‘N Goblins Resurrection (Nintendo Switch) | 12:30 - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Disney+ s1e2) | 17:25 - Best TV Shows that Never Were | 20:24 - Spring Break
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Lonely Island - Spring Break Anthem | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Clip from Brockmire - s1e1 | Kento Hasegawa Masato Kouda Ryuta Hida - Graveyard - Ghosts ‘N Goblins Resurrection | Henry Jackson - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Theme | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | AJ Mitchell - Spring Break (feat. Rich The Kid)
The fans have spoken and the SnyderCut of DCEU's Justice League has finally been released! Was it worth the wait? Does it correct the terrible sins of Joss Whedon's midwifed 2017 stillbirth? Does it even matter? We sat through all 16 hours of Zack Snyder's Justice League SuperFriends Supercut to find out!
SnyderCutJusticeLeague #SnydersCut
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:05 - The Courier (2021) | 6:09 - Wandavision (2021) | 15:00 - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) | 20:20 - Blithe Spirit (2021) | 22:50 - Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Hoyt Curtain - Super Friends 1973 Opening Theme | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Abel Korzeniowski - Spies and Typewriters - The Courier (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez - The Wandavision Tango | Henry Jackson - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Theme | Imelda May - The Glory Of Love - Blithe Spirit | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Episode 174 - Man Bites Dog
Man Bites Dog is, without a doubt, one of the most disturbing movies we have ever seen. This indie-mockumentary about film students following around a serial killer is the darkest of black comedies, and also a work of accidental genius. Best described as This Is Spinal Tap meets A Clockwork Orange, Man Bites Dog won the Critics’ Prize at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival and cemented its controversial standing in film history. Not bad for a cult movie made by amateurs for zero money. Definitely not for the squeamish, this film is a prescient look at our current reality-based entertainment landscape. But watch it at your own risk, laugh at your own peril, then feel a bit disgusted with yourself after it is all over. Just like this podcast!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:40 - The Backrooms | 8:55 - David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything https://youtu.be/aNghg1Y-WIc | 13:05 - Hydraulic Press Channel (YouTube) https://youtube.com/c/HydraulicPressChannel | 16:00 - Eagle Eye (2008) | 22:00 - Dredd (2012) | 24:45 - New Jack City (1991) | 27:20 - Man Bites Dog (1992)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Talking Heads - Psycho Killer | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything | Clip from Hydraulic Press Channel | Brian Tyler - Eagle Eye Main Title | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Paul Leonard-Morgan - Lockdown - Dredd Original Film Soundtrack | Guy - New Jack City | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Acoustic Version)
Even some of the best movies have… well, issues. We want to talk about some of our favorite movies that have some glaring problems. From a war movie that secretly thinks war is cool, to a teen comedy about a sociopath, to a comedy classic whose cast includes the world’s most famous murderer running back.
| 0:00 - Intros | 2:20 - On NOT watching Tom & Jerry (2021) | 4:00 - Get Shorty (1995) | 8:50 - Paramount+ | 12:20 - I’m Alan Partridge (1997) | 17:50 - This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | 19:30 - Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End (History Channel, 2020) | 24:30 - Our Favorite Problematic Movies | 25:45 - Saving Private Ryan (1998) | 38:15 - Honorable Mention: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | 39:41 - The Naked Gun (1988) | 47:40 - Animal House (1978) | 48:45 - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Ice-T - 99 Problems | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Christopher Lennertz - Tom & Jerry | Marcelito - Chilli Hot | Clip from I’m Alan Partridge | Spinal Tap - (Listen To The) Flower People | Spinal Tap - Hell Hole | Clip from Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End | Trailer for Doomsday (2008) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | John Williams - Hymn to the Fallen - Saving Private Ryan | John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra - Han Solo and the Princess - Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Ira Newborn - The Naked Gun Theme | The English Beat - March of the Swivel Heads | Yello - Oh Yeah
Sometimes it’s just being a big sell-out. Sometimes it’s being an artistic chameleon. This week the MagHuge crew discusses musicians who straight up switched genres and changed their sound completely, or simply jumped on a trend to grab some filthy lucre…for better or worse.
| 0:00 - Intros & Frozen Texas Blackout | 9:00 - The Thin Red Line (Jones, 1962) | 10:00 - The Little Things (2021) | 12:50 - Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (Netflix, 2021) | 18:30 - MacGruber (2010) | 20:30 - Fantastic Planet (1973) | 28:00 - I Care A Lot (2021) | 31:55 - Music About Face | 33:45 - Ministry | 41:00 - Punk rock | 43:00 - Blondie | 45:00 - David Bowie | 46:00 - The Beatles | 46:35 - The Who | 47:30 - Todd Rundgren | 50:40 - Van Halen | 54:10 - Jewel | 55:25 - Shania Twain | 57:00 - Country Music Itself | 59:05 - Gwen Stefani | 1:00:10 - Miles Davis | 1:03:30 - Pink Floyd | 1:08:05 - Garth Brooks / Chris Gaines | 1:09:10 - Snoop Dog / Lion | 1:10:05 - The Damned | 1:12:20 - Taylor Swift
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Poppy - Concrete | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Thomas Newman - Little Things - the little things (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Wendy Blackstone - Theme to Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel | Katreese Barnes / Will Forte / John Solomon / Jorma Taccone - MacGruber's Theme | Alain Goraguer - Generique - Fantastic Planet | Marc Canham - Get Some Air - I Care A Lot | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Staind - It’s Been A While | Ministry - I Wanted to Tell Her | Ministry - Every Day Is Halloween | Ministry - Just Like You | Ministry - Stigmata | Ministry - So What | Ministry - Hero | Blondie - Heart of Glass | Blondie - The Tide Is High | David Bowie - Changes | David Bowie - Let’s Dance | David Bowie - Glass Spider | The Beatles - All My Loving | The Beatles - I Am The Walrus | The Who - The Kids Are Alright | The Who - The Real Me | Todd Rundgren - Bang the Drum All Day | The New Cars - Bye Bye Love | TR-i - Fascist Christ 1.0 | Van Halen - Runnin’ with the Devil | Van Halen - Jump | Van Halen - When It’s Love | Van Halen - Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love | Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul | Jewel - Intuition | Shania Twain - Any Man of Mine | Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman | Eagles - Lyin’ Eyes | Sam Hunt - Hard to Forget | Ween - Piss Up a Rope | Blake Shelton - Nobody But You (feat. Gwen Stefani) | Miles Davis - Freddie Freeloader | Miles Davis - Bitches Brew | Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine | Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces | Pink Floyd - One Slip | David Gilmour - Blue Light | David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise | Chris Gaines - Lost In You | Snoop Lion - No Guns Allowed | The Damned - Nasty | The Damned - The Shadow Of Love | Taylor Swift - Our Song | Taylor Swift - ...Ready For It? | Justin Timberlake & Timbaland - SexyBack
Every sitcom since the dawn of TV has a staple character known as The Wacky Neighbor. That annoying, nosy, or smart-alecky weirdo who bursts through the always-unlocked door with manic energy to deliver some quick exposition or a snarky one-liner before they make a hasty, pratfall-laced exit to uproarious canned laughter. Every. Single. Time. Which begs the question: Is a sitcom without a wacky neighbor even really a sitcom? Join us as we name as many of these classic characters as memory allows in a vain effort to get to the bottom of things. From Kramer to Urkel to Mrs. Kravitz and beyond, you won’t want to miss this deeply shallow dive into TV history made possible by a lifetime sitting blankly in front of the boob tube.
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:40 - Artemis Fowl (2020) | 12:00 - Barb & Star go to Vista Del Mar (2021) | 15:10 - Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo, 2021) | 20:15 - Veep (HBO) | 24:00 - Ken Burns Jazz The Story Of America’s Music | 32:00 - How To with John Wilson (HBO) | 33:20 - Them Wacky TV Neighbors
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Patsy Cline - Come On In | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Patrick Doyle - To the Surface - Artemis Fowl | Jamie Dornan - Edgar’s Prayer (Barb & Star Soundtrack) | Richard Cheese - I Love Boobies (Barb & Star Soundtrack) | Koji Kondo - Fort Flaptrap / Trickirty Tower - Bowser’s Fury | David Schwartz - Veep Opening Theme | Miles Davis - So What | Mike Epps pitches “That’s Racist” / Skankin’ Pickle - Racist World / “That’s Racist” kid | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Casio MT-240 Demo Song - Night Birds
Think tabloids are garbage? If we didn’t all love watching music and movie stars implode in real time, no one would be buying them. But we do love to leer at the terrible stuff they do - wife beatings, drug addictions, casting couches, rubbing one out in front of people… If we didn’t have all of these rich and famous people flaming out, what would we do with ourselves? This week, the gang takes a look at stars whose careers imploded - because sometimes they are forgiven, sometimes they can’t come back, and sometimes… we just forget about them altogether.
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:00 - Salt (2010) | 15:24 - Pushing Daisies (2007) | 19:15 - God Of War (2018) | 22:45 - That Thing You Do! (1996) | 26:05 - The Lady and the Dale (2021) | 29:00 - The Big Red One (1980) | 36:17 - Actors who have imploded
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | James Newton Howard - Go Get Em - Salt | James Dooley - Against The Wall - Pushing Daisies Theme | Bear McCreary - God Of War | The Wonders - That Thing You Do! | Trailer for The Lady and the Dale | Dana Kaproff - End Theme (The Big Red One) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Avenue Q - Schadenfreude | Clip from Inside Amy Schumer | Clip of Marjorie Taylor Greene saying crazy conspiracy things | Tom MacDonald - Cancelled
Johnny Mnemonic is pretty dumb, but also pretty amazing. Made in 1995, this cyberpunk action romp imagines the future world of 2021 (ie, NOW) in which the internet requires an excessive amount of VR hardware and physical exertion to actually use. And that 180GB of memory is pushing the limits of file sizes. And that dolphins weaponized by the military are the ultimate hackers. And fax machines and VHS tapes are still somehow a thing. In short, it got just about everything wrong about right now - apart from a deadly global virus, corporate oppression and riots in the streets. Did we also mention it stars Keanu Reeves as the titular hero acting at his wooden best? All from a script by cyberpunk godfather William Gibson, cobbled together from his own groundbreaking novels, plus the tropes of literally every other sci-fi movie made before 1995. Ultimately, Johnny Mnemonic comes across as a low-budget dress-rehearsal for the much better 1999 cyberpunk classic with Reeves called The Matrix. Which still gives this ridiculous movie way too much credit.
| 0:00 - Intros (in COVID time) | 4:15 - Disney World (in COVID time) | 20:15 - NHL Hockey (in COVID time) | 22:20 - Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) (in...COVID time?) | 27:00 - PG: Psycho Goreman (2021) (sure, why not? ...in COVID time!) | 31:55 - Listener Email! In COVID Time! | 34:08 - Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Orbital - Sad but True | Mahna Mahna (from The Muppet Show) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Stompin’ Tom Connors - The Hockey Song | Hans Zimmer - Open Road - Wonder Woman 1984 | Blitz//Berlin - Two Hands, One Heart - PG: Psycho Goreman | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Johnny Mnemonic (1995) | KMFDM - Virus - (Pestilence Mix) | Stabbing Westward - Nothing
As we take a break this week, enjoy a rerun of one of our earliest episodes. This was also one of those screwups where we totally lost one of the recordings and ended up doing some creative editing to give life to the “Chris Bot!”
A discussion of the music we love - but don't brag about. Never going to give you up. Never going to let you down. Rickroll!
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Harry Belafonte - Day-O | Pink Floyd - Time | John Denver - Grandma’s Feather Bed | ?Syntax Error - I Feel Like An Onion Ring | Tom “T-Bone” Stankus - Existential Blues | Tom Lehrer - The Elements | Olivia Newton John - I Honestly Love You | The Gatlin Brothers - All The Gold In California | Al Stewart - The Year of the Cat | Nu Shooz - I Can’t Wait | Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom | Queen - We Will Rock You | Falco - Rock Me Amadeus | Sly Fox - Let’s Go All The Way | Blink 182 - Dumpweed | The Dickies - I'm Stuck in a Pagoda with Tricia Toyota | Sparks - Eaten By The Monster Of Love | Alice In Chains - Them Bones | They Might Be Giants - Fingertips | Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole | Negativland - Methods of Torture | Negativland - Yellow Black and Rectangular | Negativland - Time Zones | Pink Floyd - Goodbye Cruel World
Predator is a bona fide classic sci-fi actioner starring Arnold Schwarzenegger that rocks. Sadly, all of its sequels suck. Like, a LOT. They are all terrible for different reasons, of course, but terrible nonetheless. Which is weird, because other notable series have managed at least one or two good sequels (even some not involving James Cameron). But not the Predator franchise, which should have just stopped at the first one. Is this even worth exploring with a superficial analysis only Magnificently Huge can provide? Obviously. So get to da chopper and let us dazzle you with our savage takedown of a stinky film franchise that has zero reason to exist - (The) Predator(s)(vs. Aliens: Requiem)(2), or whatever.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:55 - WandaVision (2021) | 14:10 - Harley Quinn (2020) | 16:40 - Superman: Red Son (2020) | 18:30 - Bob’s Burgers | 20:10 - Tenet (2020) | 28:15 - Predator, Predator 2 (1987, 1990) | 38:20 - AVP: Alien vs Predator (2004) | 43:50 - Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007) | 48:20 - Predators (2010) | 56:20 - The Predator (2018)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Predator: The Musical (Arnold Schwarzenegger) - legolambs (youtube): https://youtu.be/qlicWUDf5MM | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Clips from WandaVision | Jefferson Friedman - Harley Quinn TV Show Main Theme | Frederik Wiedmann - Superman: Red Son Theme | Loren Bouchard - Bob’s Burgers Theme | Ludwig Göransson - RAINY NIGHT IN TALLINN | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Alan Silvestri - Predator 2 | Harald Kloser - Alien vs. Predator Main Theme | Brian Tyler & Hollywood Studio Symphony - Aliens Vs. Predator - Requiem | John Debney - Predators - Main Theme | Henry Jackman - Apex Predator - The Predator
This week we take a look at Ben Stiller’s other classic movie, the one that isn’t “Zoolander.” This film-within-a-war-film is a hilariously scathing look at vapid Hollywood culture and it remains one of the last completely politically incorrect films of its kind. So check your virtue signals at the door and have a great time with our talk about a comedy juggernaut - Tropic Thunder!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:00 - Geostorm (2017) | 9:15 - Doom Patrol (HBO Max) | 12:45 - The King of Staten Island (2020) | 17:30 - Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013, Curiosity Stream) | 20:10 - City Slickers (1991) | 23:00 - My Blue Heaven (1990) | 25:15 - Immortals Fenyx Rising (2020) | 25:50 - Demon’s Souls / Dark Souls III | 28:45 - Stardust (2007) | 31:30 - Tropic Thunder (2008)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Crystal Method - Name Of The Game | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Lorne Balfe - Nature Warning - Geostorm | Clint Mansell, Kevin Kiner & Sean Kiner - Main Titles (Doom Patrol) | Michael Andrews & Emile Haynie - Wake Up Staten Island - The King of Staten Island | Trailer for Antarctica: A Year on Ice | Marc Shaiman - Main Title - City Slickers | Ira Newborn - My Blue Heaven Merengue | Gareth Coker - Heart of the Hero - Immortals Fenyx Rising | Shunsuke Kida - Demon’s Souls | Ilan Eshkeri - Cap’n’s At The Helm - Stardust | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Tropic Thunder (2008) | Ludacris - Get Back
Happy New Year 2021 and welcome to the 3rd Annual MagHuge Freshitravaganza Show! It’s our usual “we took the last 2 weeks of the year off and don’t have a real topic so let’s just talk about all the movies & TV we gorged over the holiday break” episode. Because let’s be real, 2020 sucked hard. And like you, we only did the bare minimum to entertain ourselves while stress-eating junk food from the couch LIKE A BOSS. Cineplexes may be closed (thanks, COVID!) but we still had a ton of streaming services slapping our eyeballs with content old and new! Join us for our salute to slothiness, plus a giant middle finger to the stupid pandemic year we’d rather forget. Cheers!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:00 - 2020 Year End Wrap-Up | 8:40 - The Incredibly Long List Of Celebrity Deaths in 2020 | 23:00 - The Fresh S**t | 23:40 - The Mandalorian (SPOILERS) | 34:45 - The Right Stuff (National Geographic Show) | 40:15 - Soul (2020) | 42:17 - The Walking Dead | 45:00 - Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal | 49:30 - Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart | 53:30 - Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) | 1:05:55 - Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks | 1:10:00 - The Cybertronic Spree
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Steel Panther - F**k 2020 | Queen - Another One Bites The Dust | Clip from Goldfinger (1964) | Wilford Brimley Diabetus ad | Van Halen - Runnin’ with the Devil | MF DOOM - All Caps | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Ludwig Göransson - The Mandalorian (Theme) | Adam Taylor - The Right Stuff Theme | Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Just Us - Soul (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clip from Soul (2020) | Theme from Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal | Bee Gees - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart | Hans Zimmer - Open Road - Wonder Woman 1984 | Doctor Who Series 13 title music | The Cybertronic Spree - Dare To Be Stupid (available at https://thecybertronicspree.bandcamp.com/album/transformers-1986)
Get ready for the lumpiest lump of coal in our collective 2020 stocking as the MagHuge team dives into classic Christmas horror movies! It’s been a pretty horrible year, what with the pandemic and all, so we are dumping our usual Holiday Cheer for some Krampus Fear! We even throw in a couple of Psycho Santas and a ghost of Christmas Future in our picks and nix for solid alternatives to the regularly scheduled treacly family fare that bombards us every season. So whether you’ve been naughty or nice, enjoy this very special episode with a respectable body count. Pass the nog and Feliz Navidad!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:45 - Peter Serafinowicz | 8:40 - The Expanse | 9:00 - The Walking Dead | 12:15 - Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | 15:00 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) | 19:50 - The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special (2020) | 21:30 - A Colbert Christmas The Greatest Gift of All | 23:30 - Night Shift (1982) | 28:30 - Bob’s Burgers | 30:00 - The Mandalorian (Season 2- spoiler free) | 38:45 - Christmas Horror | 40:00 - Krampus (2015) | 50:00 - Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) | 57:30 - Christmas Evil (aka: You Better Watch Out) (1980)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Ginger Minj - Christma-Hannu-Kwanzaa-Ka | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat
| Peter Serafinowicz - Ringo Remembers Christmas 1979 | Peter Serafinowicz - Ringo Remembers Goldfinger | Rodrigo Garcia - The Walking Dead Theme | Bear McCreary - Godzilla Main Title - Godzilla King of the Monsters (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | John Ottman - Main Titles - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bendelacreme & Jinkx Monsoon - Everyone Is Traumatized by Christmas | Feist - Please Be Patient | John Legend - Nutmeg | Burt Bacharach - Love Theme (That’s What Friends Are For) | Rod Stewart - That’s What Friends Are For | Loren Bouchard - Bob’s Burgers Theme | Ludwig Göransson - The Mandalorian (Theme) | Clip from Deadwood | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Douglas Pipes & Brea Olinda High School Singers - Krampus Karol of the Bells | Clip from Star Trek First Contact | Perry Botkin - Main Title - Silent Night, Deadly Night | Clip from Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout | Clip from Christmas Evil | Eve 6 - Noel! Noel!
If you are as tired of superheroes as we are right now then you are gonna love this hot take on The Boys, a dark satire that eviscerates the recent Disney/MCU commodification of the comic book movie genre with a steel-toed kick right to the codpiece. Loosely based on the ultra-violent cult comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys explores the basic idea of “What if superheroes were real? And what if they were all a**holes?” Throw in a rag-tag team of vigilantes intent on taking them all down and you get a bonkers, profanity-laden, ultraviolent funhouse ride. But underneath the veneer hides some very pointed critiques of our modern world that resonate beyond simply a bunch of weirdos in spandex blowing stuff up real good. It’s sharp, it’s funny, and we really dig it. So we thought we’d spoil it all for you!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:30 - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) | 10:45 - Freaky (2020) | 15:30 - The Prom (2020) | 23:45 - Escape From L.A. (1996) | 28:00 - Predator 2 (1990) | 37:15 - The Boys SPOILER discussion (2019-2020)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx) | Little Nell, Particia Quinn & Richard O’Brien - Time Warp - The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Trevor Jones - The Game Is On - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Bear McCreary - Freaky Credits | The Cast of Netflix’s Film The Prom - Tonight Belongs to You | White Zombie - The One (Escape from L.A. Soundtrack Version) | Alan Silvestri - Predator 2 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | The Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit
Some movies think you’re dumb. They create situations that are so unbelievable, you can’t side with them any longer. Breaks in logic so severe, only a fan of the “Fast and Furious" movies could possibly stick with it. Like when James Bond falls into a 200 foot gorge, but of course he survives because… reasons. This week’s episode is a discussion of the movies that stretched the reality possible in film - until it broke.
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:30 - Jiu Jitsu (2020) | 10:00 - Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X impressions | 11:30 - Immortals Fenyx Rising (Xbox Series X) | 14:00 - Demon’s Souls (PS5) | 20:30 - 808 (2015) | 28:30 - Glass (2019) | 29:40 - Flight That Disappeared (1961) | 30:53 - Nuking The Fridge / Killing Suspension of Disbelief / That’s Stupid
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Negativland - Theme from “A Big 10-9 Place” | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Trailer to Jiu Jitsu (2020) | Trailer to Crazy World (2019) | Gareth Coker - Heart of the Hero - Immortals Fenyx Rising | Shunsuke Kida - Demon’s Souls | 808 Drum Pattern - Beastie Boys - TR-808 https://youtu.be/N5zOj3Cdej4 | West Dylan Thordson - Physicks - Glass Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Richard LaSalle - Flight That Disappeared Theme | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from Steel Magnolias (1989)
As we lick our wounds from the beating that is 2020, enjoy this re-run from the first year of MagHuge!
This week, the movies and music with hidden meanings, agendas, or that were just poorly thought out. (Like rooting for rapists - even if they are nerds.) But first, as ever, Brian, Chris, and Eric dish the Fresh S**t. It’s all the movies, TV shows, music and games of the week that were discussed but that I cannot remember because it was recorded days ago and I’m getting so, so sleepy now. I think I’ll just take a little nap…
Check out a playlist of the music from this episode here: open.spotify.com/user/magnificent…sOcAWzLsoZgtxynn
0:00 Intros 5:00 Future Man 8:50 Tomb Raider 13:35 Jessica Jones 16:10 Run The Jewels - Oh Mama 18:40 Crackdown 20:00 Mad Dog Time 23:38 Invasion of the Bee Girls 25:15 Intro to main topic of the week 25:40 Pretty Woman 27:25 Time Bandits 29:05 Natural Born Killers 29:45 Say Anything 31:10 Revenge of the Nerds 32:40 300 34:45 The Parent Trap 39:30 Every Breath You Take 40:15 Born in the U.S.A. 41:45 Pumped Up Kicks 43:00 Mamma Mia 44:05 Good Riddance 45:25 The Smiths 48:10 You’re Beautiful 50:00 It’s My Party 51:10 Willy Wonka 52:30 Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind 55:25 Fight Club 57:05 2012
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Tim Cavanaugh - I Wanna Kiss Her Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Clip from Future Man S1E10: Natal Attraction Halli Cauthery - Future Man - End credits music 2WEI - Survivor (from Tomb Raider) Clip from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Michelle Pfeiffer - Cool Rider (from Grease 2) Sean Callery - Jessica Jones - Opening credits music Run the Jewels - Oh Mama Rick and Morty Season 4 Trailer The Kids in the Hall - Captain Wonderful MGM HD promo for Mad Dog Time Invasion of the Bee Girls trailer Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Clip from Time Bandits Clip from Say Anything Hayley Mills - Let’s Get Together (from The Parent Trap) Theme to The Patty Duke Show 38 Special - Caught Up In You The Police - Every Breath You Take Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks “Weird Al” Yankovic - NOW That’s What I Call Polka! ABBA - Mamma Mia Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Harry Nilsson - You’re Breakin’ My Heart The Smiths - Sheila Take A Bow The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again James Blunt - You’re Beautiful John Mayer - Your Body is a Wonderland Lesley Gore - It’s My Party Clip from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
In lieu of our annual Thanksgiving extravaganza podcast, this year we instead watched the 1982 Ozsploitation cult classic, Turkey Shoot. Because it has the word ‘turkey’ in the title. None of the MagHuge crew had ever seen it before, so this was a true adventure into the unknown for us. How bad could a grindhouse movie set in a dystopian future where rich 1%-ers hunt political prisoners for sport be? It’s stuffed to the rafters with gratuitous nudity and over-the-top violence, which always equals production value in our book. It also has some of the nuttiest Running Man-meets-Braddock vibes this side of that time we saw Chuck Norris dance the Running Man at a wedding we once crashed in Orlando. Or perhaps that was only a fever dream… Regardless, Turkey Shoot is just the ticket to help us forget that we now live in a dystopian future where rich 1%-ers hunt us for sport. And boy howdy, it is a hoot! Happy Turkey Shoot Day 2020, errbody!
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:15 - Doolittle (2020) | 13:40 - Save Yourselves! (2020) | 17:00 - British Chat Shows | 21:00 - X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) | 28:50 - Passenger 57 (1992) | 34:30 - Turkey Shoot (1982)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Killdozer - Turkey Shoot | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Danny Elfman - Opening - Doolittle Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Clip from BBC Radio 1 - Robert Downey Jr. | Andrew Orkin - It Drank the Gas - Save Yourselves! | Clip from The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2015 | Hans Zimmer - Gap - Dark Phoenix (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Stanley Clarke - Lookin Good (Cutter’s Theme) - Passenger 57 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Turkey Shoot (1982) | Ohio Players - Jive Turkey
YouTube is the ultimate expression of Gen-X laziness. If you were a pre-internet kid, and you had to go to the library to look up stuff, you probably had the thought, “Why can’t all this junk just be movies I can watch? Why do I need to sift through a whole book to find the part about sightings of the chupacabra? Why can’t I find the real dirt on mini submarines that were part of the attack on Pearl Harbor? WHAT’S ALL THIS READIN’ FER;!?!” YouTube is a great place to get chunklets of information on weird subjects any time you want it. Without librarians. Because those old ladies were horrible. But that’s a topic for another time.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:23 - Killing Eve (Season 3) | 10:30 - Xbox Series X v. Playstation 5 | 27:28 - Not Quite Hollywood (2008) | 40:00 - Every Frame A Painting: https://www.youtube.com/c/everyframeapainting | 40:50 - Digital Foundry: https://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalFoundry | 43:57 - Dark Docs: https://www.youtube.com/c/DarkDocs | 49:30 - Red Letter Media: https://www.youtube.com/user/RedLetterMedia | 54:15 - Easy Allies: https://www.youtube.com/c/easyallies | 56:15 - Practical Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel | 57:30 - CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/greymatter | 1:02:43 - The Critical Drinker: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCriticalDrinker
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Bo Burnham - Welcome to YouTube | Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez - Let It Go (Instrumental Karaoke Version) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Psychotic Beats - Killer Shangri-Lah (feat. Pati Amor) [Killing Eve Original Soundtrack] | Labrinth - No Ordinary | Astro’s Playroom - Gameplay Trailer 1 | Trailer for Not Quite Hollywood | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Wyatt - YouTube
Ever watch a movie and think, “This is just plain weird”? Like us, you can probably come up with dozens of examples of films that were intentionally strange. The challenge this round was to come up with examples of movies that, instead of being deliberately odd, appeared to be made in earnest but turned out INCREDIBLY WEIRD. LIke, WTF-level weirdness. Like, why would they make this? That’s it, that’s the whole show. An arbitrary mess of personal opinions about films that left a dark mark on our fragile psyches because we expected a regular good time and got something wholly different instead. From dramas to sci-fi to big-budget studio musicals, this one has a little something for everyone. Because that’s how Magnificently Huge rolls!
| 0:00 - Intros | 8:15 - The Mandalorian (Season 2, Disney+) | 12:20 - The Boys (Season 2, Amazon Prime) | 17:15 - Ready Or Not (2019) [SPOILERS] | 21:15 - Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Nintendo Switch) | 25:10 - Weird Movies | 27:00 - Psycho (1960) | 29:30 - The Stuntman (1980) | 30:35 - Made In Heaven (1987) | 32:40 - Phantasm II (1988) | 35:15 - Enter The Void (2009) | 38:45 - Fantastic Planet (1973) | 43:55 - The Witches (1990) | 45:30 - Cars (2006) | 47:30 - The Straight Story (1999) | 49:00 - Arnold Schwarzenegger Comedies | 53:16 - Paint Your Wagon (1969) | 59:25 - Jupiter Ascending (2015)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Walter Wanderley - Summer Samba (So Nice) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Ludwig Göransson - The Mandalorian (Theme) | Christopher Lennertz - Translucent Alive - The Boys (Music from the Amazon Original Series) | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Brian Tyler - Badass Bride - Ready Or Not (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Chad York, Darren Radtke - Title Theme - Luigi’s Mansion 3 | YG - FDT ft. Nipsey Hussle | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (theme) | Dominic Frontiere - The Stunt Man - Main title | Mark Isham - Same Time, Another Place - Made In Heaven Soundtrack | Fred Myrow - Phantasm II (End Credits) | LFO - Freak | Alain Goraguer - Generique - Fantastic Planet | Randy Newman - Opening Race - Cars Soundtrack | Angelo Badalamenti - Laurens Walking | The California Gold Rush - Paint Your Wagon | Clint Eastwood - I Talk To The Trees - Paint Your Wagon | Lee Marvin - I Was Born Under A Wandering Star - Paint Your Wagon | Michael Giacchino - Jupiter Ascending: 1st Movement | John W. Christensen - I Get Weird (2010 Remaster)
Hey, the 2020 election is upon us here in the United States (or was upon us, depending on when you catch this)! We as citizens get to vote and make an effort to engage in our democracy! But like most of you we are a tad anxious about, well ...EVERYTHING. So we thought we’d go back and watch a few old movies about how politics makes for strange bedfellows to see if we can learn anything new. Hint: We don’t. We’re still pretty effed, as far as we can tell - unless that’s just the booze talking. From Elia Kazan’s 1957 classic “A Face in the Crowd” to a slew of 90’s political comedies like “Bob Roberts” and “Bulworth” and into the more recent past with satires like “In the Loop” - we realized that the more things change, the more they kinda stay the same. But we f*#$ing voted anyway. Give us a call if you need a ride to the polls before they close.
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:50 - Hazel (TV Series, 1961) | 17:45 - The Exorcist III (1990) | 23:35 - It (2017), It Chapter 2 (2019) | 26:35 - Perry Mason (HBO, 2020) | 31:30 - The Dollop (podcast) | 32:55 - Love and Monsters (2020) | 35:35 - Roald Dahl’s The Witches (2020) | 42:14 - Bulworth (1998) | 48:20 - Wag The Dog (1997) | 50:40 - A Face In The Crowd (1957) | 55:40 - Bob Roberts (1992) | 59:00 - Feed (1992) | 1:01:50 - In The Loop (2009) | 1:06:45 - Election (1999 )
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Arcadia - Election Day | Trailer for Zardoz | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | The Modernaires - Hazel Theme Song | Barry De Vorzon - The Exorcist III Main Title | Clip from The Exorcist III | Benjamin Wallfisch - Every 27 Years (Reprise) - It (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clip from It Chapter 2 | Terence Blanchard - Perry Mason Theme | Marco Beltrami and Marcus Trumpp - End Credits - Love and Monsters | Alan Silvestri - Enter the Witches | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from Bulworth (1998) | Tom Glazer - Main Title (A Face in the Crowd) | Clips from Bob Roberts (1992) | Clips from In The Loop (2009) | Rolfe Kent - Anyone - Election | The Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit
Rob Zombie movies are a lot like Rob Zombie songs - except it’s easier to understand the words. Maybe that’s an oversimplification. But that’s okay, because if there’s one virtue to a Rob Zombie film, it’s that they’re overly simple. This week we talk about the wacky, dark, violent oeuvre of Rob Zombie as filmmaker, dishing on what we thought of the movies of his we were able to find for free. There’s a lot of good stuff in there. Maybe that should have been the title of this podcast. If you’ve wanted to dip your toes into the Zombiewaters before, this is a great place to start. And if you’re an old hand at his work, the comments section is right down there. Speak your truth!
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:30 - Hammer Films: The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), The Mummy (1959), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1974), The Gorgon (1964) | 15:45 - American International Pictures: The Raven (1963) | 18:39 - Chicago (2002) | 23:00 - David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020) | 28:30 - Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) | 33:54 - Staged (2020) | 39:00 - Rob Zombie Films: House of 1000 Corpses (2003), The Devil’s Rejects (2005), Grindhouse (2007), Halloween (2007), Halloween II (2009), The Lords of Salem (2012), 31 (2016), 3 from Hell (2019)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Cranberries - Zombie | Rob Zombie - Dragula | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | David Whitaker - Main Title - Vampire Circus | MC Hammer - Here Comes the Hammer | Catherine Zeta-Jones, Susan Misner, Deidre Goodwin, Denise Faye, Ekaterina Chtchelkanova, Mya Harrison & Taye Digge - Cell Block Tango - Chicago - Original Motion Picture Sountrack | David Byrne - Lazy (Live) | David Byrne - I Dance Like This (Live) | David Byrne - Hell You Talmbout (Live) | Fanfare Ciocărlia - I Am Your Gummy Bear | Clip from Borat 2 | Lambeth Wind Orchestra - Alex Baranowski - Music from Staged | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Rob Zombie - Well, Everybody’s F**king in a U.F.O.
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
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
You don’t get to hire a guy for his artistic vision, subvert his work, and then blame him for the result. That’s what happened with 2015’s “Fantastic Four,” or as it was stylized on so many Denny’s menus at the time, “Fant4stic.” What was originally conceived as a gross, body horror drama got reverse-engineered into a bad Avengers clone - because nobody wants action figures of The Thing who is constantly in pain. (Except us!) We’ll be talking about the continuing failures of all the Fantastic Four films this week - but we come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Fant4stic is not good. It is, however, worth looking further into why its audacious concept didn’t (or wasn’t allowed to?) work.
Here is the Bob Chipman pitch for how to bring the Fantastic Four into the MCU: https://youtu.be/VehLxh5wCU8
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:05 - An American Pickle (2020) | 7:05 - Staged (2020) | 9:20 - Enola Holmes (2020) | 16:54 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) | 19:45 - Ratched (2020) | 25:24 - Fantastic Four
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Fantastic Four The Animated Series Theme | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Michael Giacaccio and Nami Melumad - The Pickle Empire Strikes Back - An American Pickle | Lambeth Wind Orchestra - Alex Baranowski - Music from Staged | Daniel Pemberton - Enola Holmes (Wild Child) | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas theme | Leonard Bernstein - Danse Macabre, Op 40 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Marco Beltrami and Philip Glass - Fantastic Four Main Theme | Shaggy - Boombastic | Fantastic Four Theme Song (1967)
Episode154 - Heathers Vs. Mean Girls
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)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Pierre Henry - Psyche Rock (Fatboy Slim Malpaso Mix) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Galuten Bahler - Brains and Trains - Raw Deal | Clip from Raw Deal (1986) | Clips from Commando (1985) | Clip from Total Recall (1987) | Clip from Kindergarten Cop (1990) | Jeff Russo - The Umbrella Academy | Clip from Doctor Who s6e8 “Let’s Kill Hitler” | Jeff Russo - Run - Legion | Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek The Next Generation Theme | Naughty By Nature - O.P.P. | Secret Course - Super Mario Sunshine | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Opening Theme | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Mean Girls (2004) | David Newman - Martha Dumptruck - Heathers | Big Fun - Teenage Suicide (Don’t Do It) | Syd Straw - Que Sera, Sera | Sly & The Family Stone - Que Sera, Sera | Boomkat - Rip Her to Shreds | Clips from Heathers (1989)
Some movies are all sizzle and no steak, sad to tell you. We have a theory: Awesome Trailer = Awful Movie. And by our math, this formula is correct about 92% of the time. So here is our salute to the pitfalls of movie marketing! It’s the campaigns that got us excited to see a film opening weekend. And how most of these ended up being giant disappointments, along with the few rare times we hit the Awesome Trailer/Awesome Movie jackpot! Plus a few we totally knew would suck but we went anyway! We aren’t mad at the hype machine so much as mad at ourselves for always taking the slick, glossy, technicolor packaging at face value. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us 100 times, we’ll likely go see the next movie anyway because we are suckers who never learn.
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:04 - Dolemite is my Name (2019) | 10:20 - Pure (HBO Max, 2020) | 12:10 - Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 (2020) | 14:45 - Gangster Movies on DVD (Hard Boiled, Infernal Affairs, Sexy Beast, The Untouchables, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre) | 26:45 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) | 31:00 - Class Action Park (2020) | 36:09 - Movie Hype! (featuring Batman, Dick Tracy, The Rocketeer, Star Wars, Marvel, and many more!)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Fountains of Wayne - Bright Future In Sales | Clip from Outfoxed (2004) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | The Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit | Craig Robinson - Dolemite | Altered Images - I Could Be Happy | Clip from Pure s1e1 | Dead Kennedys - Police Truck | Joo Rita - Red Car Boogie Hard Boiled | Ennio Morricone - On the Rooftops - The Untouchables | Clip from The Untouchables (1987) | John Williams - Duel of the Fates | Class Action Park trailer | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Public Enemy - Don’t Believe the Hype | Trailer for Batman (1989) | Trailer for Dick Tracy (1990) | Prince - Batdance | Teaser for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace | Daft Punk - Derezzed
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins is a big-budget studio actioner that arrived to theaters everywhere with a giant thud in the Fall of 1985 and quickly fell into pseudo-obscurity. We’re not even really sure what about this film baffles us the most. Was it the utter abandonment of all the sex and violence that made the original series of pulp novels so much fun? Maybe the not-even-cool-for-its-time casting of a white dude as a Korean martial arts master? Perhaps the hour long training montage? Or the incomprehensibly thin plot and casual misogyny? Possibly the loud, repetitive hero theme any time the audience starts to nod off? Perchance the criminally underused Wilford Brimley? Yes, this would-be All-American blue collar answer to James Bond - even made by several key people who had worked on actual Bond entries - was supposed to kick off a whole new series of movies. Until it tanked at the box office. HARD. We go off about all that’s wrong with Remo Williams in this occasionally cogent look at one of the more forgotten artifacts of Reagan-era cinema!
Here is a link to the Auralnauts Star Wars video we referenced:https://youtu.be/BwsMYJdmutQ
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:15 - Auralnauts - STAR WARS Reimagined: The Empire Strikes Back | 11:00 - Harley Quinn (animated, 2019) | 16:25 - Marvel Cinematic Universe | 20:50 - The Mandalorian (Disney+, 2019) | 26:45 - Red Dwarf | 32:45 - Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Craig Safan - Main Title - Remo Williams The Adventure Begins | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Clip from Auralnauts - STAR WARS Reimagined: The Empire Strikes Back | Jefferson Friedman - Harley Quinn TV Show Main Theme | Ludwig Göransson - The Mandalorian (Theme) | Ian Hu, Mark Lambert - Red Dwarf Theme | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins | Tommy Shaw - Remo’s Theme (What If)
Greetings, our excellent friends. When you don’t have any movie theaters, or George Carlin, or any new ideas at all really, can you still make a good movie? Can you take Keanu Reeves, who has spent the last 25 years trying to shed his surfer idiot image, and bring him back to that same persona with any credibility? Can you justify getting the band back together? Do they get better? Do they? Find out in our most heinous spoiler review of unnecessary Gen-X nostalgia-bait Bill & Ted Face The Music!
PS: We REALLY wanted to like this movie. Honest. But we're obviously all three dead inside.
| 0:00 - Intros | 8:20 - The Prestige (2006) | 13:00 - High Score (Netflix, 2020) | 20:30 - The Manchurian Candidate (Condon, 1959 / Film, 1962) | 23:20 - In Search of the Last Action Heroes (2020) | 29:20 - Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Power Tool - Two Heads Are Better Than One | Clip from Outfoxed (2004) | The Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | David Julyan - The Prestige | Amir Khan, Katrina Kaif - Malang Song - DHOOM3 | Theme from High Score (Netflix) | Nitzer Ebb - Join In The Chant | David Amram - The Manchurian Candidate | clip from In Search of the Last Action Heroes | Trailer for I Come In Peace (1990) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Mark Isham - Welcome To The Future (Whoa) - Bill & Ted Face the Music | Mark Isham - Dennis Caleb McCoy | Walmart commercial with Bill & Ted | clip from the Bill & Ted TV series | Wyld Stallyns - Face The Music | Wyld Stallyns - That Which Binds Us Through Time: The Chemical, Physical And Biological Nature Of Love; An Exploration Of The Meaning Of Meaning, Part 1
Ben Folds Five is a trio of dudes who, back in the 90s, gave us great music that was not quite pop, not quite punk, but something gloriously in between. With front man Ben Folds banging the keys on his piano, along with Robert Sledge on fuzzed-out bass, and Darren Jessee on drums, they created a very distinctive lo-fi, guitar-free sound that is a weird blend of jazz, rock, pop and punk that the band itself once self-described as “Punk for Sissies.” And that’s as apt as anything else we can muster. We are still big fans of their first 4 classic 90’s albums, with songs that alternate between cheeky and funny to dark and introspective - and sometimes even both simultaneously. Yes, Ben Folds Five is truly part of the soundtrack of our lives and we salute them!
This is also the fabulous sesquicentennial celebration episode of The Magnificently Huge Podcast! So buckle up for some extra fun…
Here’s a link to “The Last Broadcast”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqE5Nz5unco&feature=share
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:22 - High Score (Netflix, 2020) | 13:30 - The Regrettes | 18:40 - Late Night with Seth Meyers | 23:40 - The Last Broadcast | 29:15 - The Witcher (Netflix, 2019) | 34:20 - The Umbrella Academy season 2 (Netflix, 2020) | 39:12 - Ben Folds Five
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Ben Folds Five - Narcolepsy | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Theme from High Score (Netflix) | Genesis Does commercial | The Regrettes - Hot | The Regrettes - Seashore | The Regrettes - I Don’t Like You | The Regrettes - Dress Up | Clips from The Last Broadcast | Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli - Geralt of Rivia | Joey Batey - Toss A Coin To Your Witcher | Jeff Russo - The Umbrella Academy | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces | Ben Folds Five - Brick | Ben Folds Five - Philosophy | Ben Folds Five - Battle Of Who Could Care Less | Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped | Ben Folds Five - Selfless, Cold And Composed | Ben Folds Five - Kate | Ben Folds Five - Twin Falls (live at Club Quattro, Tokyo 2-26-96) | Ben Folds Five - For Those Of Y'all Who Wear Fannie Packs | Ben Folds Five - Naked Baby Photos - 11 - Satan Is My Master (live at Ziggy's, Winston-Salem, NC 8-12-95) | Ben Folds Five - Army | Ben Folds Five - Don’t Change Your Plans | Ben Folds Five - Mess | Ben Folds Five - Erase Me | Ben Folds Five - Draw a Crowd | Fear of Pop - I Paid My Money | Fear of Pop - In Love | Ben Folds Five - Underground
Set phasers to OMG, because it’s a whole show about random Star Trek trivia you didn’t even know you wanted! That’s right, we found 20 amazing Clickbait facts (well, okay, maybe more like five, let’s not push it) about the Star Trek universe - from TOS to Discovery - that will blow your mind and leave you more exhausted than a good pon farr… because The INTERNET! For example, did you know that Picard’s middle name is Luc? We sure didn’t! Until now… Ha, made you click, sucka!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:33 - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | 10:45 - Rising Sun (1993) | 12:56 - Black Rain (1989) | 19:12 - Things that require an audience in the age of Covid (America’s Got Talent vs The Democratic National Convention) | 31:40 - Star Trek Clickbait Facts
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Michael Giacchino - End Credits - Star Trek | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Carter Burwell - The Book - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Toru Takemitsu - Yakuza Pursuit - Rising Sun | Hans Zimmer - Black Rain Suite | America’s Got Talent theme song | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | The Firm - Star Trekkin’ | Beastie Boys - Sabotage | Beastie Boys - Paul Revere | Alexander Courage - Star Trek Main Theme
Logan’s Run from 1976 is perhaps the most Super 70’s sci-fi epic ever made. Especially since Star Wars came along barely a year later and changed movies forever. But for a brief, shining moment in the early 1970’s we had a good run of films that presented gritty, dystopian futures... that still looked like they were set in the early 1970’s. With obvious scale-model cities, disco fashion, bean bag chairs, shag carpet, and enough macrame to choke a horse, Logan’s Run is fascinating because it is an expensive (for its time) studio extravaganza of a far-off future which still managed to look cheap and dated. Yet here we are, still talking about it over 4 decades later. That’s gotta count for something, right? Oh, and don’t trust anyone over 30.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:55 - Revolt (Netflix, 2017) | 12:27 - Legion | 16:38 - NHL Hockey in the time of COVID | 21:10 - The Go-Go’s (2020) | 27:50 - Drive In Movie (Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980) | 35:20 - Death Becomes Her (1992) | 40:20 - Logan’s Run (1976)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Motörhead - Enter Sandman | Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now? | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Bear McCreary - Theme from Revolt | Jeff Russo - Run - Legion Season 1 (OST) | Roy Ayers - Aragon - Coffy (OST) | Stompin’ Tom Connors - The Hockey Song | The Go-Go’s - Club Zero | The Go-Go’s - Beatnik Beach (1978) | John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra - Finale - Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back | Alan Silvestri - Death Becomes Her | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Logan’s Run (1976) | Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark | Jerry Goldsmith - The Dome / The City / Nursery - Logan’s Run | Clip from THX 1138 | Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell | Neil Young - Old Man | Foreigner - Cold As Ice | The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary | Alphaville - Forever Young | Gary Numan - Down In the Park | Living in a Box - Living in a Box | The Black Eyed Peas - Let’s Get It Started
This round we dare to tackle the burning question: How many Highlanders can there actually be? The answer might surprise you. But one thing is certain, we were shocked - SHOCKED! - to learn that MagHuge team member Brian had never before seen Highlander, a definitive cult classic of trash 80s cinema. How does that happen? So we had a Gathering to get a fresh perspective on one of the most iconic geek movies ever made. It’s got immortal warriors with weird accents (Sean Connery, Christopher Lambert & Clancy Brown) battling it out across the centuries to win some vague plot Macguffin called The Prize, all set to a rockin soundtrack by Queen. What more do you need? So which of us loses their head first? Dare kin bee oanlee whun...
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:17 - Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017) | 15:20 - Greyhound (2020) | 20:00 - The Americanization of Emily (1964) | 22:30 - Angie Tribeca | 25:50 - The Wrong Missy (2020) | 31:23 - Highlander (1986)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Queen - Princes of the Universe | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | John Williams - Canto Bight - Star Wars The Last Jedi | Blake Neely - I’ll Always Be Looking For You - Greyhound | Johnny Mandel - Emily | Clip from Angie Tribeca (s1e2) | STRFKR - Never Ever | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Spinal Tap - Stonehenge | Queen - I Want It All | Queen - Gimme the Prize (Kurgan’s Theme) | Queen - New York, New York | Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever | Queen - A Kind of Magic
This week, we’re taking a look at a small, mostly overlooked film about the housing bubble crash of 2009. Why? First, because while “The Big Short” was certainly a good film, this is more about the mechanics of what sank our economy and the kinds of people who made those decisions. Second, and more importantly, right now we’re on the brink of a major economic collapse and it pays to be mentally prepared for disaster. With an all-star cast of players at the tops of their game, and a script that moves like a breeze through difficult technical economics, we three will tell you all the reasons you need to watch this film on your next Amazon Prime binge. (Which, if you’re still under quarantine, probably starts in about 10 minutes.)
| 0:00 - Intros | 9:14 - Cannonball Run II (1984) | 18:00 - Speed Racer (2008) | 25:40 - Man Seeking Woman | 28:06 - The Imagineering Story (2019) | 31:09 - Star Trek: Voyager | 36:00 - Margin Call (2011)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Flying Lizards - Money | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Ray Stevens - Cannonball | Menudo - Like a Cannonball | Ali Dee and the The Deekompressors - Go Speed Racer Go | Photay - Reconstruct (feat Seafloor) | Theme from The Imagineering Story | Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek Voyager (Main Title) | Buddy Hackett - Shipoopi | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Nathan Larson - Margin Call | Cardi B - Money
If an 80's kid didn’t have HBO growing up, they knew someone who did and watched the hell out of it. But let’s go back further, to the 70's and the early days of cable television when it was still limited and kind of pricey. You certainly couldn’t get unedited, commercial-free movies on your television. Until HBO, that is. Back in the day, Home Box Office was KING and made cable a necessity. Before the era of the VCR they pioneered satellite broadcasting and 24/7 programming. Plus, we got Skinemax late-nite nudie flicks - which led to lesser rivals Showtime and The Movie Channel - and kickstarted a slew of groundbreaking television you couldn’t find on regular networks. Think Sopranos, Deadwood, Westworld, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Shameless, Battlestar Galactica,The Wire and beyond... all the must-see TV of the last 25 years peppered with a heavy dose of Hollywood beamed directly to your living room 24 hours a day. Yeah, the entertainment you stream so easily now on your phone? That all started with HBO.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:30 - Charlie’s Angels (2019) | 13:37 - Overlord (2018) | 18:45 - The Old Guard (2020) | 27:50 - 30 Rock - A One Time Special (NBC) | 31:05 - Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga (2020) | 33:35 - Palm Springs (2020) | 36:26 - HBO
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Bazuka - Dynomite | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey - Don’t Call Me Angel (Charlie’s Angels) | Jed Kurzel - Arrival - Overlord Music from the Motion Picture | Volker Bertelmann & Dustin O’Halloran - The Old Guard | Jeff Richmond - 30 Rock Theme | Will Ferrell & My Marianne - Jaja Ding Dong | Cast of Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga - Song-A-Long | Cornbread Compton - Race to the Cave | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | HBO Feature Presentation Music | Negativland - The Playboy Channel | Joe Pizzulo - White Lines - 1st and Ten | Tina Turner - The Best
Episode 144 - Back to the Future
Roads? Where we’re podcasting we don’t need roads! That’s right, this time we go Back to the Future with Marty and Doc in a very accidental 35th Anniversary Celebration of the biggest movie from 1985! Yep, it’s the classic time travel incest comedy with the world’s most tricked-out Delorean that spawned two sequels, a cartoon show, a theme park ride, and now this podcast! So set the flux capacitor to 1.21 jigawatts and rock out to some Huey Lewis and the News as we wax nostalgic about one of the most (almost) perfect Hollywood blockbusters ever made! | 0:00 - Intros | 5:11 - Elfstones of Shannara (book, Brooks, 1982) | 5:46 - Danger 5 | 11:43 - Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, (Book, Montefiore 2003) | 14:15 - Stranger Things (Netflix) | 18:45 - Don’t (ABC) | 21:05 - The Vast of Night (2019) | 24:25 - Devolver Direct 2020 | 30:44 - Back to the Future (1985)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Outatime Orchestra - Back to the Future | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Dario Russo - Danger 5 Theme | Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein - Stranger Things Theme | Promo for “Don’t” | Erick Alexander & Jared Bulmer - music from The Vast of Night | Clip from Devolver Direct 2020 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Alan Silvestri - 1.21 Jigowatts | Alan Silvestri - Skateboard Chase | Huey Lewis & the News - The Power of Love | Alan Silvestri - DeLorean Reveal | Huey Lewis & the News - Back In Time | Clip from #JustForLaughs with John Mulaney
Why are vampire movies all the same? Either they’re romance movies where a bored woman gets swept off her feet by a posh zombie, or they’re supervillains who drink blood, can’t go outside, and may or may not have reflections, hate garlic, or squeal when holy water touches them. We honestly don’t answer this question this week - we just complain about what’s wrong with them. We also talk about the most egregiously bad vampire movies, the ones that actually work, and what we thought of the musical “Hamilton” - which isn’t a vampire movie, at least not yet.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:55 - Hamilton (2020) | 11:59 - Missile Command: Recharged (Atari, 2020) | 14:06 - Cunk on Britain | 26:23 - Vampire Movies | 31:04 - Shadow of the Vampire (2000) | 34:20 - Dracula (John Badham, 1979) | 41:16 - The Hunger (1983) | 48:32 - Near Dark (1987) | 50:42 - Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) | 55:50 - The Lost Boys (1987) | 1:01:17 - Let The Right One In (2008) | 1:06:17 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Birthday Party - Release the Bats | Monty Python - The Spanish Inquisition | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Lin Manuel Miranda & Cast - My Shot - Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording | Missile Command: Recharged Official Trailer | Clip from Cunk on Britain - Episode 4 | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Susan Sarandon - Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me | James Salvatore - The Woods - Shadow of the Vampire Soundtrack | John Williams - Opening And Storm Sequence - Dracula | Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead | Tangerine Dream - Caleb’s Blues - Near Dark Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Jozef Van Wissem & SQÜRL - Only Lovers Left Alive | Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister (Theme from The Lost Boys) | Johan Söderqvist - Let the Right One In | Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
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
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
Question: Between the original 1987 version of Robocop and the 2014 reboot of Robocop, which is better? And why is it the original 1987 version? We’re diving into the universe of OCP’s most controversial crime fighting machine. We look at how such a goofy concept of a half-robot, half-human, all-crime fighter could have so much wit and black comedy in the middle of the Reagan era. We’ll also tear into it’s reboot, which had significantly better effects, higher budget, a cast of brilliant actors, and became a neutered, bland, tiresome cash grab. Because that’s what we do.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:32 - Get Shorty (Series, Epix 2017) | 8:50 - Terminal (2018) | 12:00 - Team America: World Police (2004) | 18:33 - Ninja III: The Domination | 21:55 - Homecoming (Amazon) | 25:00 - Robocop
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Sleaze Boys - Robocop | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Antonio Sanchez - Breezy - Get Shorty (Original Television Soundtrack) | Alexina - Silent Killer - Theme from the motion picture Terminal | America Fuck Yeah - Team America World Police | The End of an Act - Team America World Police | Freedom Isn’t Free - Team America World Police | Derka Derk (Terrorist Theme) - Team America World Police | Sally Zapulla - Love Bites - Ninja III: The Domination | Janelle Monáe - Goldfinger | Janelle Monáe - Tightrope | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Basil Poledouris - Drive Montage - RoboCop | Basil Poledouris - Anvil of Crom - Conan the Barbarian | Basil Poledouris - End Credits - RoboCop
1999 was arguably the last big watershed movie year, one brimming with a crazy number of now-recognized classics that helped push cinema into the next millennium. That’s it, that’s our thesis. 1999 was crazy full of unique studio movies that would likely never see a green light in today’s franchise-driven climate: The Matrix; Office Space; Fight Club; Sixth Sense; American Pie; Being John Malkovich; Three Kings; Magnolia; Eyes Wide Shut; and more. The films are weird, personal, periodically profane, and often darkly funny. And their legacy remains.
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:12 - Homecoming (Amazon) | 10:50 - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbons) | 13:45 - Sports in the age of COVID-19 | 19:30 - Dave Made A Maze (2017) | 23:10 - Fast Five (2011) | 28:30 - Thank God It’s Friday (1978) | 35:46 - 1999: the year in movies | 52:11 - The Mummy (1999) | 58:25 - Fight Club (1999) SPOILERS | 1:09:10 - Office Space (1999)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Prince and the Revolution - 1999 | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Clip from Homecoming s1e1: Mandatory | Battlebots Reboot Theme | Clip from Battlebots s3e1: It’s Robot Fighting Time! | Tandemoro - Pinball (from Dave Made A Maze) | Brain Tyler - Fast Five | Love & Kisses - Thank God It’s Friday | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Spybreak! - Propellerheads | Jerry Goldsmith & Orchestra - The Mummy | The Dust Brothers - Homework | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Perez Prado and His Orchestra - Mambo No. 8 | Trey Parker and Matt Stone - Uncle Fucker | Ricky Martin - Livin’ la Vida Loca
We go off on the weirdest film franchise in Disney history with our hot take on Herbie the Love Bug! Spanning 5 movies over the course of almost 40 years, this oddball series stars a sentient VW Beetle with a giant heart who gets into scrapes, adventures and misunderstandings around the world! We originally had this discussion within a previous show (Episode 124, Bands Named After Places) but feel like now is the perfect time to revisit one of the biggest bags of crazy ever perpetrated on childhoods everywhere. Featuring Dean Jones, Ken Berry, Buddy Hackett, Don Knotts, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Michele Jones, Stefanie Powers, Keenan Wynn, Michael Keaton and Lindsey Lohan, we don’t really know what to say… but we say it anyway. Go Herbie!
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | George Bruns - Herbie The Love Bug Theme | The Blacksmoke Organisation - Herbie (Fully Loaded Remix) | Dean Jones - Herbie the Love Bug TV Intro | Lindsay Lohan - First
As the historic Dr. Demento radio show proved, pretty much anyone can make a novelty song. But it takes a true talent to make an entire album of funny songs that stands out, much less build a whole career on it. Join us for a Laugh & Listen Jamboree of some all time favorites in the funny music biz - from Weird Al all the way back to Spike Jones, and everything in between! It’s all the hits and plenty that you may have missed from hilarious musical acts that have given us a ton of side-splitting tunage to stick in our ear holes and amuse ourselves to death!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:38 - Rick and Morty (season 4) | 9:10 - Penny Dreadful (season 2) | 12:17 - Homeland (series finale SPOILERS) | 15:41 - Solar Opposites (Hulu, 2020) | 18:41 - Party Down | 20:41 - Mr. Plinkett’s Star Trek Picard Review (Red Letter Media) | 24:15 - Zack Snyder’s Justice League (HBO Max) | 26:40 - American Ultra (2015) | 29:12 - Shaun of the Dead (2004) | 32:34 - Isle of Dogs (2018) | 34:40 - Assassins Creed Odyssey (2018) | 37:45 - Musical Comedy Records
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Napoleon XIV - They’re Coming To Take Me Away | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Ryan Elder - Theme to Rick and Morty | Abel Korzeniowski - Penny Dreadful Theme | Sean Callery - Homeland Main Title Theme | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Clip from Solar Opposites | Clip from Party Down | Clip from Mr. Plinkett’s Star Trek Picard Review | Paul Hartnoll - Apollo Ape - American Ultra Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Monster - The Blue Wrath | Alexandre Desplat - The Hero Pack - Isle of Dogs | The Flight - Legend of the Eagle Bearer | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Allan Sherman - Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp) | Allan Sherman - Hail to Thee, Fat Person | The Treniers - RaggMopp | Allan Sherman - RattFink | Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Cocktails for Two | Spike Jones & His City Slickers - You Always Hurt the One You Love | Tom Lehrer - Wernher Von Braun | Tom Lehrer - Who’s Next? | Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go | Stan Freberg - St. George & the Dragonet | Stan Freberg - Banana Boat (Day-O) | Smothers Brothers - Soap | Spinal Tap - Gimme Some Money | Spinal Tap - Bitch School | Spinal Tap - Break Like the Wind | Tim Cavanagh - I Wanna Kiss Her | Tim Cavanagh - The ABC’s of Dead Russian Leaders | Tom ‘T-Bone’ Stankus - Existential Blues | The Lonely Island - We’ll Kill U | The Lonely Island - Lazy Sunday | The Lonely Island - Diaper Money | The Lonely Island - Santana DVX (feat. E-40) | Bo Burnham - High School Party (Live) | Bo Burnham - Art Is Dead | Ogden Edsl - Dead Puppies
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
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
The Kids in the Hall is not only one of the funniest things to come out of Canada, it is also one of the funniest things we have ever watched on television. Five guys from the Great White North formed a sketch comedy troupe in the mid-80s that begat a hugely influential TV show that aired from 1988-1994 on HBO and helped kickstart the 90’s sketch show renaissance. With oddball characters placed in mundane situations, the show’s humor was always dark, strange and hilarious. But when they inserted mundane characters into the strange and absurd, that’s when they gave us some classic bits. It’s a show that definitely influenced us, and one we quote often, so we figured it was about time to give it a proper salute. Here’s to The Kids in the Hall! We’re crushing your heads…!
Here’s a link to the Vintage Video podcast that we mention during the show: http://www.vintagevideopodcast.com/
| 0:00 - Intros | 8:40 - Burr (Vidal, Gore) | 10:10 - Extraction (2020) | 16:05 - Vintage Video (podcast) | 17:45 - Extra Ordinary (2020) | 20:20 - Booksmart (2019) | 21:50 - Reply All Podcast - The Case of the Missing Hit | 24:45 - The Kids In The Hall
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Having an Average Weekend | DEVO - Gut Feeling | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Henry Jackman & Alex Belcher - Car Chase - Extraction - Music from the Netflix Film | Jarvis Cocker - Black Magic | Dan The Automator - Full Star (from Booksmart) | Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from The Kids In The Hall
Welcome to the Magnificently Huge Podcast 3rd Anniversary Show! Which also happens to coincide with Star Wars Day, May 4. So, May the Something Something… We celebrate our 3 years in existence with our annual gabfest about all things Star Wars. Because why not? This time we look to the sins of the recent past and air our grievances about the final Skywalker Trilogy. What did they manage to get right? How very much did they get completely wrong? And are we the only podcast that dares to say out loud how much we actually like The Last Jedi? Questionable hot takes abound in this very special episode about Star Wars, Episode 7, 8 & 9. Buckle up for lightspeed, you porg eaters, because no force ghost can save you now. A sentence that admittedly makes no sense...but then, neither does this new trilogy.
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:10 - Watchmen (HBO) | 9:20 - Transcendence (2014) | 15:18 - Quigley Down Under (1990) | 18:48 - Barry (HBO) | 23:50 - The Twilight Zone (CBS, 2019) | 27:00 - Future Man (Hulu) | 29:20 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) | 35:35 - Star Wars episodes VII, VIII, IX
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Schoolhouse Rock! - 3 is a Magic Number | Meco - Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band | Clips from Saturday Night Live | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - A Stronger, Loving World - Watchmen Vol. 03 | Mychael Danna - Transcend - Transcendence - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Basil Poledouris - Main Title - Quigley Down Under | Class Actress - Journal of Ardency | Marco Beltrami & Brandon Roberts / Marius Constant - End Title Theme - The Twilight Zone | Halli Cauthery - Future Man Theme | Alan Silvestri - End Title (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | John Williams - Rey’s Theme | Clips from Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens | John Williams - Finale - Star Wars The Rise Of Skywalker
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
Before he was Forrest Gump...Before he became America’s Dad...Tom Hanks almost killed his career in the 1980’s with a string of mediocre, low-box-office comedies where he basically played the same role repeatedly - the charming, lovable, unthreatening, wisecracking everyman. Apart from making a big splash with enormous hits like Big and Splash, there is little to distinguish most of his movies made in the Me Decade. Which got us to thinking: How did the 80’s not manage to sink Tom Hanks entirely? Because about 93% of his filmography from this era is pretty awful, if we’re being honest. Don’t get us wrong, there are a few underappreciated gems in the lot, to be sure, and we’ll mostly be touching on those. Join us for a look back at a time before he was a superstar and T. Hanks for the memories!
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:45 - Watchmen (HBO, 2019) | 9:15 - Burr (Vidal, Gore) | 12:30 - Half in the Bag reviews Jack and Jill (2011) | 16:00 - Lucy (2014) | 21:35 - Star Trek Picard (2020) | 26:50 - Hunters (Amazon, 2020) | 29:50 - Absolutely Fabulous | 32:00 - Community | 36:25 - Tom Hanks | 47:15 - Bachelor Party (1984) | 53:00 - The Money Pit (1986)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Gary Bennett - My Life | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - A Stronger, Loving World - Watchmen Vol. 03 | Clip from Jack & Jill (2011) - Al Pacino Dunkin Donuts | Eric Serra - Pleasant Drive In Paris | Jeff Russo - Star Trek Picard Main Title | Trevor Gureckis - Hunters - Main Title | Julie Driscoll and Adrian Edmondson - This Wheel’s on Fire | The 88 - At Least It Was Here | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Oingo Boingo - Bachelor Party | Stephen Bishop - The Heart is so Willing | Clip from The Money Pit (1986) | Tom Hanks and Dan Ackroyd - City of Crime | The Art of Noise - Dragnet | Clips from Dragnet (1987) | Clip from Dragnet (1967) | Clip from Punchline (1988) | BUCKWHEAT GROATS - Tom Hanks
Heading into Week 5 of Pandemic Self-Isolation and we’re all a bit stir crazy. So we decided to test a new Chrome extension called Netflix Party, which makes it possible to watch something on the streaming service simultaneously from different places. For this grand experiment, we picked a low budget 2014 Indian sci-fi kids show called Maharakshak Aryan - because reasons. Long-story-short, we heckle the hell out of this bonkers Last Airbender-meets-Power Rangers-meets-Sid & Marty Kroft romp - that you can’t see because this is an audio podcast. We’re dumb like that. But hey, nobody said socially distancing was pretty, and everything is horrible right now anyway. So just go with it already.
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:11 - Coffee and Kareem (Netflix, 2020) | 9:27 - Onward (Disney, 2020) | 16:16 - Picard (CBS, 2020) | 23:45 - Aquaman (2019) | 31:05 - Maharakshak Aryan (2014)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Oingo Boingo - Dead Man’s Party (1988 Boingo Alive Version) | Kylie Minogue - The Loco-Motion | Robert Emmet Kelly, Christopher John Franklin - Stay the Fuck at Home | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Darnell Williams - Turbo (feat. Reese LAFLARE) | Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna - Magic Returns - Onward Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Jeff Russo - Star Trek Picard Main Title | Clip from Scott Pilgrim VS the World (2010) | Clip from Star Trek Picard (2020) | Rupert Gregson-Williams - Arthur - Aquaman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Jodi Benson - Part of Your World | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Maharakshak Aryan (2014) | Clip from Land of the Lost (1974)
If you were stuck at home sick in the dark days before cable t.v., before VCR’s, and well before the internet, you had limited options to fill the day. Sure, you could’ve read Judy Blume or Encyclopedia Brown books, but that was just like being at school. Instead, you plopped yourself down in front of your best friend, the television, and watched whatever crap happened to be on. Like, all day. This involved a few cartoons, The Price Is Right, and endless re-runs of old shows so lackluster that you won’t even see them on TV Land because nobody misses it. Yup, Gen-X is uniquely prepared to ride out a pandemic while stuck at home, enduring what most people call “boredom” - because we’ve been doing this our whole lives.
You can find Negativland’s Escape From Noise album on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1iI8thQSDO3kvRxMtxNuTD?si=RUYlDVppSU-lrVf9uwNd6g And on Apple Music here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/escape-from-noise/386818766
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:10 - Negativland - Escape From Noise | 13:23 - Upstart Crow | 19:10 - Louis C.K. and cancel culture | 26:55 - Bert Kreischer | 29:20 - Guns Akimbo (2020) and Bloodshot (2020) | 39:10 - Daytime television before cable and the Internet
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Budos Band - Chicago Falcon | Clip from Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) | Negativland - Time Zones | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Negativland - Quiet Please | Negativland - Methods of Torture | Negativland - Christianity Is Stupid | Negativland - Nesbitt’s Lime Soda Song | Negativland - Sycamore | Clip from Upstart Crow | Clip from That Mitchell & Webb Look | Clip from Demolition Man (1993) | Enis Rotthoff - Enter the Ride - Guns Akimbo Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Steve Jablonsky - Initiate Sequence - Bloodshot Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Woody Woodpecker Theme Song | I’m Popeye The Sailor Man | The Price is Right theme song | On the Franches Mountains from Swiss Mountain Music | Clips from The Joker’s Wild | Clips from Search for Tomorrow (1974) | Clips from Room 222 | Clips from The Dick Van Dyke Show | Clips from Mayberry R.F.D. | Clips from Topper | Clips from Please Don’t Eat The Daisies
What do you get when you take an 80s Cruise the week the world falls apart during a pandemic? We’re glad you asked! Because Eric & Brian happened to enjoy an 80s Cruise vacation when the whole world got cancelled and all the toilet paper disappeared. But Chris has some burning questions about their ill-fated adventure: Which musical acts cancelled? What was the Best Show/Worst Show? How many shrimp CAN one person shovel into their own mouth while the 80s hits rain down? And is there ever enough hand sanitizer? Tune in for answers to these questions and more on this episode of The Magnificently Huge Podcast! Washy Washy!
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:20 - Coming home to COVID-19, toilet paper, guns, and Trump | 11:06 - The 80’s Cruise part 2 | 20:05 - Asia featuring John Payne, Kool & the Gang, The Jets | 23:59 - The Legendary Wailers | 27:49 - Berlin | 29:49 - Tony Hadley (ex Spandau Ballet) | 34:09 - Katrina from Katrina and the Waves | 36:31 - Tony Lewis from The Outfiled | 37:32 - Anabella from Bow Wow Wow | 41:20 - Grandmaster Flash | 42:15 - DJ Christopher J | 45:00 - Washy Washy with Jamie the Juice Man | 49:00 - Punk Rock Prom | 54:41 - How to die in Miami | 58:45 - Chris’s Fresh Shit | 59:26 - The Imagineering Story | 1:01:30 - Moonstruck
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Dominik Hauser - The Love Boat (Theme from the Television Series) | Kenny Rogers - Lucille | Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen | Beck - Where It’s At | Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus | Tony Hadley - Save a Prayer | Katrina and the Waves - Going Down To Liverpool | The Outfield - Your Love | Tony Lewis - I’ll Still Be Here | Bow Wow Wow - C30, C60, C90 Go | The Bollock Brothers - Harley David (Son of a Bitch) | Stereo MC’s - Connected | Plastic Bertrand - Ça plane pour moi | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Clip from The Imagineering Story | Dick Hyman - Canzone Per Loretta/Gioventu Mia, Tu Non Sei Morta (Finale) - from Moostruck | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | 'Weird Al' Yankovic - Mr. Popeil
Let’s get this out of the way up front: The audio quality on this week’s episode sucks. Also, we didn’t get to half the things that are worth discussing on The 80’s Cruise! That said… Eric and Brian left Chris behind to go on vacation for a week. On a boat. On a bitchin 80’s-themed cruise around the Caribbean that promised a slew of popular musical acts plucked from the Me Decade for their middle-aged entertainment… most of which cancelled at the last minute because this was also the week that the coronavirus finally hit the States hard. Chris stayed home and did some panic-buying, but Eric and Brian valiantly chat at sea about the absurdity of taking an 80’s cruise while the world burns. Well, okay, really they just snark on the ups and downs of watching nostalgia acts perform on a boat.
| 0:00 - Intros | 8:33 - Once On This Island (touring) | 10:54 - Doctor Sleep (2019) | 13:15 - Star Trek: Picard (2020) | 19:25 - The 80’s Cruise (part 1) - The Motels / Patty Smyth / Kool & the Gang / Berlin
| Clips | CBS Special Presentation Intro | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Lonely Island - I’m on a Boat (feat. T-Pain) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Once On This Island Storytellers - Why We Tell the Story - Once on this Island New Broadway Cast Recording | The Newton Brothers - The Overlook - Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Jeff Russo - Star Trek Picard Main Title | The Motels - Take the L | Patty Smyth - Goodbye to You | Scandal - The Warrior | Kool & The Gang - Get Down On It | Berlin - Sex (I’m A…) [Rerecorded] | ?? but we’re guessing it’s Trial By Fire - Journey Through The 80’s
Is seeing your first R-rated movie even considered a right of passage any more? Used to be you had to sneak into a theater to get nudity, profanity and some good old-fashioned ultra-violence. And then came PG-13, giving teenagers a watered-down version of what once passed for Rated R fun. But kids these days have the internet and can pretty much watch whatever they want, whenever they want. The poor bastards will never know the empty joy of circumventing an arbitrary MPAA ratings system in the pursuit of a cheap thrill. And don’t even get us started on NC-17. In short, ratings are for suckers and any system that lets Poltergeist be PG is broken beyond repair.
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:26 - The End of the F**cking World (Netflix) | 9:05 - Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) | 14:54 - New Order - Music Complete (2015) | 18:21 - Apple Earpods Pro | 21:26 - Down The Hill: The Delphi Murders (podcast) | 24:25 - Newcomers (podcast) | 26:23 - Greener Grass (2019) | 30:27 - Witch Mountain movies (Disney) | 38:20 - R rated movies
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Dr. John - Right Place Wrong Time | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Nancy Wilson - (You Don’t Know) How Glad I Am | Arthur Simonini - La Jeune Fille en Feu (Bande originale du film) | New Order - Academic | New Order - Stray Dog | Hallway Swimmers - Nightswag (featured in Greener Grass) | Johnny Mandel - Escape to Witch Mountain | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Electronic - Getting Away With It
Little Shop of Horrors! First it was a cult B-Movie! Then it was a hit off-Broadway musical! Which then became the highest-grossing cult movie musical of 1986 based on a stage show adapted from an old Roger Corman film! You don’t want to miss how we break it all down to explore why Little Shop of Horrors is so damn fun, considering it is about how everything sucks, people are inherently horrible, and we are all doomed. With yet another re-make on the horizon, all we can really say is, FEED ME, SEYMOUR!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:30 - The Castaway Cowboy (1974) | 7:30 - Hip-Hop Evolution (Netflix) | 14:30 - Horse Girl (Netflix) | 20:20 - The End Of The F**king World 2 (Netflix) | 22:07 - Madonna and the Breakfast Club (Hulu) | 26:57 - The Imagineering Story (Disney+) | 31:30 - Sonic The Hedgehog (2020) | 37:49 - Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Bill Mitchell, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold & Tisha Campbell - Prologue (Little Shop of Horrors) | Negativland - U2 - Special Edit Radio Mix | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Clips from “The Castaway Cowboy” | dead prez - Hip Hop | The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight | Clip from Donald Glover - Weirdo | Clip from Horse Girl | Nancy Wilson - (You Don’t Know) How Glad I Am | Breakfast Club - Right On Track | Clip from “The Imagineering Story” | Wiz Khalifa - Speed Me Up (From “Sonic The Hedgehog”) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Ellen Greene - Somewhere That’s Green | Somewhere That’s Green (Reprise) - Little Shop Of Horrors - The New Broadway Cast Recording | Alan Menken - Finale (Don’t Feed the Plants) | Jodi Benson - Part of Your World | Alan Menken - Skid Row (Downtown) | Alan Menken - Feed Me (Git It) | Steve Martin - Dentist! | Levi Stubbs - Mean Green Mother From Outer Space
Child actors - one of the cruelest ways we tortured children until we started forcing them to sew Nike shoes. These people start out cute and precocious, but get thrown to the wolves with no job skills, unrealistic expectations of the world, and weird faces that kind of look like that kid from that show. In other words, hilarious. Schadenfreude for ugly people. And a cautionary tale for parents looking to Lohan their daughters: Hollywood eats the young.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:00 - Cruel World Festival | 8:20 - Locke And Key (Netflix, 2020) | 14:35 - Freaky Friday (1976) | 21:30 - A Very Stable Genius (Rucker, Leoning - 2020) | 29:30 - Upgrading a PC | 30:40 - Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020) | 40:11 - The Fault in our Child Stars
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Stingray Karaoke - Oops!... I Did it Again | Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Torin Borrowdale - Locke & Key title theme | Ellen Andrews and Annabel Andrews - I’d Like To Be You For A Day - Freaky Friday | Doja Cat - Boss Bitch | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | The Beatles - Paperback Writer | Hilary Duff - So Yesterday
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
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
Everyone has their first Mad Max, the titular anti-hero of the wasteland first brought to life in 1979 by filmmaker George Miller. Four films made across 40 years, they still pack a wallop and remain one of the most influential series ever made. So which one started it for you? The Road Warrior? Fury Road? Was it somehow Beyond Thunderdome? Join us as we explore the pockyclypse through dust, guzzleline, and epic car crashes. Plan? There ain’t no plan!
We also talk about videogames, TV, movies, and Tool!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:00 - Castle Rock (Hulu) | 10:27 - Mom and Dad (2017) | 13:15 - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon) | 15:28 - Candleshoe (1977) | 19:36 - Silicon Valley (HBO) | 23:37 - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Electronic Arts, 2019) | 29:25 - Tool (live) | 36:00 - Mad Max (1979) | 47:25 - Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) | 55:30 - Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) | 1:07:22 - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Brian May - The Chase is on - Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Expanded Score | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Thomas Newman - Bluff (End Title) [From Castle Rock] | Dusty Springfield - Yesterday, When I Was Young | Ron Goodwin with tThe Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Theme from Candleshoe | Tobacco - Stretch Your Face | Stephen Barton - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Main Menu Theme | Tool - Stinkfist (live) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Tina Turner - One of the Living | Maurice Jarre & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Coming Home | Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) | Junkie XL - Chapter Doof
Kevin Costner was a cinematic superstar who starred in a series of massive hits from 1985 to 1992. He even won an Oscar for directing himself in Dances With Wolves, for Pete’s sake. And then, for some unfathomable reason, he made two vanity projects virtually back-to-back in the mid-90s that have become synonymous with Heaven’s Gate/Ishtar-level failure - Waterworld (1995) and The Postman (1997). Both films are bloated, meandering, budget-busting epics - self-serving star vehicles set in a post-apocalyptic future that borrow heavily from repurposed Mad Max tropes. Costner is in his usual star-mode, playing the stoic loner who becomes an unlikely white savior by the end. You know, that old chestnut. Not surprisingly, both Waterworld and The Postman were widely panned by critics and pretty much ignored upon their release. Despite all this, we kinda like them, warts and all. Join us for an epically bloated, meandering, budget-busting, and self-serving podcast talk all about...The Costnerpocalypse.
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:12 - Aquarela (2019) | 11:50 - Styx (live) | 16:50 - Tammy and the Teenage T-Rex (1994) | 20:24 - 1917 (2019) | 25:30 - The Expanse | 34:45 - Dracula (Netflix, 2020) | 38:02 - Disney+ | 40:00 - The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975) | 47:32 - The Costnerpocalypse | 49:35 - Waterworld (1995) | 1:00:10 - The Postman (1997)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | OK Go - Invincible | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Apocalyptica - Aqua Balalaika | Styx - Mr. Roboto (live) | Styx - Fooling Yourself (Angry Young Man) (live) | Styx - Too Much Time On My Hands (live) | Styx - Hundred Million Miles from Home | Simon Stokes and the Black Whip Thrill Band - Dinosaur Man - Tammy and the T-Rex | Trailer for Don’t Look In The Basement (1973) | Thomas Newman - Up the Down Trench - 1917 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clinton Shorter - The Expanse | David Arnold & Michael Price - The Fear - Dracula (Original Television Soundtrack) | clip from The Muppet Movie (1979) | Paul J. Smith and Buddy Baker - The Apple Dumpling Gang Theme | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | James Newton Howard - Main Credits - Waterworld (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | James Newton Howard - The Restored United States - The Postma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
We took a few weeks off and now we’re back, refreshed and not quite ready. Um… we didn’t really prep a real topic this round because we kinda suck. Instead, we offer yet another show-length version of our Fresh Shit segment, full of all the movies and television we’ve consumed over the hiatus. It is chock full of arbitrary opinions, audience pandering, and a whole lot of word salad! Hear Chris foam at the mouth about the insanely fun new Netflix show, The Witcher! Listen to Brian try to recount his drunken viewing of the insanely insane movie version of CATS! Catch Eric’s hot take on 6 Underground, the latest insanely stupid actioner from Michael Bay! Plus, we even spoil Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker for Eric! Because the first rule of podcasting is: There are no rules! It’s insane!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:00 - Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019) SPOILERS | 23:30 - Preacher season 4 (AMC, 2019) | 32:45 - NHL Winter Classic | 38:15 - Cats (2019) | 44:00 - Uncut Gems (2019) | 46:00 - Jack Ryan (Amazon, 2019) | 51:15 - The Witcher (Netflix, 2019) | 57:20 - Spongebob The Musical: Live on Stage! (Nickelodeon, 2019) | 1:02:55 - John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch (Netflix, 2019) | 1:06:35 - 6 Underground (Netflix, 2019) | 1:09:25 - Rick & Morty season 4 (Cartoon Network)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Beastie Boys - That’s It That’s All | Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out? | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | John Williams - Finale - Star Wars The Rise Of Skywalker | Dave Porter - Preacher Main Theme | Stompin’ Tom Connors - The Hockey Song | Cast Of The Motion Picture - Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats (From The Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Daniel Lopatin - Uncut Gems | Ramin Djawadi - Jack Ryan Main Theme | Joey Batey - Toss A Coin To Your Witcher | Dan Vasc - Toss A Coin To Your Witcher | Ethan Slater & Ensemble - (Just a) Simple Sponge - SpongeBob SquarePants the NEW Musical Original Cast Recording | Gavin Lee & Sea Anemones - SpongeBob SquarePants the NEW Musical Original Cast Recording | John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch with David Byrne - Pay Attention! | Lorne Balfe - Point of Extraction - 6 Underground | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Ryan Elder - Rick and Morty Theme | DEVO - Fresh
2019 was the Endgamiest year on record! Here’s all we could muster the energy to talk about - from the lowest of lows to the highest of highs, and all that other junk in between. For us, it was a meh end to the Terrible Teens - a year with a few bits that exceeded expectations, and a whole bunch more that landed with a giant thud on the Pile of Disappointments. We got movies, TV shows, politics, and celebrity deaths galore! Plus, our arbitrary top picks and pans for the year that was are sure to be controversial! Please join us for our salute to another successful revolution around the sun - the 2019 Endgame. Thanks for listening, cheers to another year filled to the brim with ridiculousness!
6:05 - meh. 8:10 - slightly above expectations 11:25 - disappointments 19:20 - favorite movies of the year 26:50 - TV shows 31:25 - The year things ended, but dumb 40:00 - Politics 44:50 - MagHuge podcast year in review 51:50 - Celebrity Deaths
Roland Emmerich: A director whose career is marked by huge aspirations, enormous spectacle, and an amazing track record of success considering no one admits liking his work. Clint Eastwood is still mistakenly thought of as a genius for making sloppy, boring biographical dramas, but Roland Emmerich's genius is all but ignored despite a filmography that includes the destruction of the Earth FOUR TIMES. Is he formulaic? Yes. Is his dialogue laughably stupid? You betcha. But he's a B movie filmmaker with A movie budgets. And you can't deny the ambition of an artist whose oeuvre extends from 10000 BC to the day after tomorrow.
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:07 - The Rachel Maddow Show (podcast) | 9:50 - Joker (2019) | 16:00 - Brian’s Christmas Music pick of the week - Sugar and Booze | 17:42 - Sparks - Please Don’t F**k Up My World | 18:30 - Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) | 21:50 - The Mandalorian (Disney+, 2019) | 25:10 - Watchmen (HBO, 2019) | 31:00 - Roland Emmerich | 34:40 - Noah’s Ark Principle (1984) | 36:56 - Moon 44 (1990) | 40:02 - Universal Soldier (1992) | 44:52 - Stargate (1994) | 51:00 - Independence Day (1996) | 53:50 - Godzilla (1998) | 56:00 - The Patriot (2000) | 58:00 - The Day After Tomorrow (2004) | 1:02:30 - 10,000 B.C. (2008) | 1:05:10 - 2012 (2009) | 1:10:30 - The rest: Anonymous (2011), White House Down (2013), Stonewall (2015), Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Midway (2019)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | David G. Arnold - Firestorm - Independence Day Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Judy Garland - Down With Love | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Peter Serafinowicz - Dalek Relaxation Tape (from his BBC 6 Music Radio Show) https://youtu.be/tJSQFzw1pEE | Hildur Guðnadóttir - Call Me Joker - Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Ana Gasteyer - Sugar And Booze | Sparks - Please Don’t F**k Up My World | Henry Jackman - The Jumanji Suite | Ludwig Göransson - The Mandalorian (Theme) | Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - A Stronger, Loving World - Watchmen Vol. 03 | Clips from The Official Watchmen Podcast | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Noah’s Ark Principle (1984) | Clips from Moon 44 (1990) | Clips from Universal Soldier (1992) | Bodycount - Bodycount | David Arnold - Nicholas Dodd & Sinfonia of London - Closing Titles (Intro) - Stargate Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | David Arnold - Nicholas Dodd - End Titles - Independence Day - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Clip from Independence Day (1996) | Clip from Ruthless People (1986) | Puff Daddy ft. Jimmy Page - Come With Me - Official Music Video | John Williams - Boston Pops - Theme from “The Patriot” | Harald Kloser - Tidal Wave - The Day After Tomorrow - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Harald Kloser & Thomas Wander - 10,000 BC / End Credits | Adam Lambert - Time for Miracles (from the motion picture “2012”)
When it comes to Christmas specials that define the fabric of the holiday season, few are as vital (or strange) as the Rankin/Bass stop-motion acid trip classic, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. It has aired every single year since 1964, which is astonishing. Even more astonishing is the fact that this “Christmas Classic” has very little to do with actual Christmas. It features a Yeti, a crazy mountain man with a pick-axe fetish, and a gender-fluid elf named Hermey who just wants to be a dentist. Which all just screams Christmas. Still, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is the crown jewel in the Rankin/Bass library of holiday specials - utterly sublime weirdness that is equal parts wholesome family fun and intense WTF-ery - and we unwrap all of the splendor in our Very Special MagHuge Holiday Special!
Links to Brian’s amazing Christmas music playlist:
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/a-kruegerland-christmas-shuffle-random-recommended/pl.u-gr7lI5MDW0q?fbclid=IwAR3jP4fyWHOr4nduFYYQoJLtPKDQuz2aJ-4y9fyxM7ijDvDQk8blm1MIcZ0
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/35MGvfRzA9mGs7nd6yOHLh?si=RMr8nWZtQfS6X6a7EneM_g&fbclid=IwAR1zT3waKBPohZcPpZiyL-Xx5H82hCvC-svj7RZs0oJWV6nPhl1TXnVcrao
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:30 - Star Trek: Deep Space 9 | 7:45 - American Gods (Starz, 2017) | 14:45 - Brian’s hot take / predictions for Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker | 18:45 - Sunday Night Football Theme | 21:10 - Dark Waters (2019) | 24:00 - Brian’s Chrismas Music picks of the week | 26:00 - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 3) | 29:52 - Black Widow (trailer) | 33:30 - The Irishman (Netflix, 2019) | 39:50 - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Decca Concert Orchestra - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Instrumental) | Burl Ives - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Quad City DJ’s - What You Want For Christmas | !!! - Shit Scheisse Merde, Pt. 1 / Thomas Bangalter, 113 - 113 Fout la Merde | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Dennis McCarthy - Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Main Title, Season IV) | Brian Reitzell - Main Titles - American Gods - Original Television Series Soundtrack | Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker Duel Of The Fates Trailer | Carrie Underwood - NBC Sunday Night Football 2019 Theme | Bill Medley - Friday Night’s A Great Night For Football - Last Boyscout - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Marcelo Zarvos - Filing the Suit - Dark Waters - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | The Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit | Praveen Francis - Christmas Rap (feat. Yves Shavelin Kemgne) | Justin Bieber - Drummer Boy (feat. Busta Rhymes) | Connie Francis - Who’s Sorry Now | Trailer for Black Widow (2020) | Robbie Robertson - Theme for The Irishman | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Thousand Foot Krutch - Heat Miser | Clips from Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (1964) | Billie Richards & Paul Soles - We’re a Couple of Misfits | Burl Ives - Silver and Gold | Synthetic Twins - Feliz Navidub
Links The Big Picture on “Black Widow” https://youtu.be/biu6_WcchSE
Join us for our hot take on the star-studded Rian Johnson (The Last Jedi, Brick) whodunit that has single handedly reinvigorated the cable-knit sweater industry - Knives Out. Beware of spoilers here, because we definitely tell you that it was Mrs. Peacock in the library with the candlestick. Wait, wrong mystery-comedy…but trust us, this one is damn fun. It will keep you guessing to the very end when you find out it was Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the revolver… Wait, still not the right movie. Anyway, Knives Out is an entertaining romp of the kind they don’t really make much anymore, and we have the gamut of opinions about it all. Plus, the cast is astonishing, and includes Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Christopher Plummer, Michael Shannon, Ana de Armas & Toni Collette - and all of them get to chew their fair share of scenery in this delightful eat-the-rich class war comedy. And every time you think you know whodunit, trust us, you don’t. But beware, before this thing is over you may also want a donut or two.
Links to Brian’s amazing Christmas music playlist:
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/a-kruegerland-christmas-shuffle-random-recommended/pl.u-gr7lI5MDW0q?fbclid=IwAR3jP4fyWHOr4nduFYYQoJLtPKDQuz2aJ-4y9fyxM7ijDvDQk8blm1MIcZ0
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/35MGvfRzA9mGs7nd6yOHLh?si=RMr8nWZtQfS6X6a7EneM_g&fbclid=IwAR1zT3waKBPohZcPpZiyL-Xx5H82hCvC-svj7RZs0oJWV6nPhl1TXnVcrao
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:23 - Baby Driver (2017) | 7:00 - On Becoming A God In Central Florida (Showtime, 2019) | 11:05 - Evel Knievel (1971) | 13:10 - Good Boys (2019) | 14:45 - Booksmart (2019) | 17:00 - Brian’s Christmas playlist, featuring JD McPherson | 19:45 - Charlie’s Angels (2019) | 25:08 - Ford v Ferrari (2019) | 29:15 - Honey Boy (2019) | 34:45 - Knives Out (2019)
| Clips | Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Danger Mouse (feat. Run the Jewels & Big Boi) - Chase Me | Mint Royale - Blue Song | On Becoming A God In Central Florida (Theme music) | Pat Williams - I Do What I Please (from Evel Knievel) | Doja Cat - Go To Town (from Good Boys) | Dan The Automator - Full Star (from Booksmart) | JD McPherson - Socks | Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey - Don’t Call Me Angel (Charlie’s Angels) | The Dead Milkmen - Instant Club Hit (You’ll Dance to Anything) | Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders - Le Mans 66 | Alex Somers - Honey Boy (feat. Zach Shields) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Nathan Johnson - Knives Out! (String Quartet in G Minor) | The O’Jays - Backstabbers
It’s the holidays, and that means watching every Bond film, one after another. Holidays without Bond is like Thanksgiving without turkey, like rain without clouds, like sex without a finger in your butt. While that metaphor is rolling around in your head, consider just how much some Bond films… well… are kind of crap. This episode explores which Bond film is the second worst of the bunch. We didn’t bother looking at the actual worst Bond film, because everyone knows it’s “Die Another Day.” Too easy. Shooting fish in a barrel, talking about how badly that one sucks. So instead, the penultimate bad Bond film. Plus our usual fresh shit and witty banter. Oh James!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:12 - The Countdown Pod | 6:52 - Nikki Glaser - Bangin’ (Netflix, 2019) | 7:37 - Seth Meyers - Lobby Baby (Netflix, 2019) | 8:00 - Movie 43 (2013) | 12:06 - Rick and Morty (Cartoon Network, Season 4) | 14:04 - The Good Place (NBC, Season 4) | 16:47 - “I Want Nothing” memes | 20:22 - Watchmen (HBO, 2019) | 24:42 - Failed Franchise Movies of 2019 | 31:27 - The Worst Is Not Enough - which Bond movie is 2nd worst?
| Clips | London Symphony Orchestra - James Bond Theme | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Trailer for Nikki Glaser - Bangin’ | Trailer for Seth Meyers - Lobby Baby | Morten Abel - Inparticular | Ryan Elder - Rick and Morty Theme | David Schwartz - The Good Place Opening Music | I Want Nothing memes (see links below) | Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - OWL HUNTS RAT - HBO’s Watchmen Soundtrack | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Garbage - The World Is Not Enough | Gidea Park - California Girls - from A View To A Kill (1985) | The Clash - London Calling | Clips from Octopussy (1983) | Clips from The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) | Clips from The World Is Not Enough (1999) | Clips from Spectre (2015) | Madonna - Die Another Day | Sam Smith - The Writing’s On The Wall | Wings - Live and Let Die | Clips from Die Another Day (2002) | Clips from Austin Powers In Goldmember (2002)
| Links | I Want Nothing (Ramones Style): https://youtu.be/8lnycszxXVk
| I Want Nothing (Emo Style): https://mobile.twitter.com/nicklutsko/status/1197269902131974146?ref_url=https%3a%2f%2fboingboing.net%2f2019%2f11%2f21%2fmusicians-turn-drumpfs-fishe.html
| I Want Nothing (Smiths Style): https://mobile.twitter.com/benjamminash/status/1197396744876761088?ref_url=https%3a%2f%2fboingboing.net%2f2019%2f11%2f21%2fmusicians-turn-drumpfs-fishe.html
Let’s talk turkeys, because this round we’re giving thanks for movies that stank! Yup, that’s right…we gorge ourselves on empty calorie entertainment that we should hate on pure principle. These movies may be dumb, but we still love them in spite of our better judgment. Join us as we explore a handful of films that are not only so-bad-they’re-good, but so-bad-they’re-beyond-awesome. It’s arbitrary and asinine, but that’s pretty much what this entire podcast is about. Ain’t no shame in this game. Happy Stanksgiving!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:55 - Greener Grass (2019) | 11:00 - Heathers: The Musical (Ocean Beach Theater Company) | 14:50 - Motherless Brooklyn (2019) | 19:42 - The End of the Fucking World (Season 2, Netflix, 2019) | 21:05 - Russian Doll (Netflix, 2019) | 21:40 - Disappointing Thanksgiving movies of 2019 | 27:45 - Midway (2019) | 33:00 - Ford v Ferrari (2019) | 37:55 - Disney + and The Mandalorian (2019) | 49:30 - Evel Knievel (1971) | 59:50 - Tango & Cash (1989) | 1:10:30 - The World Is Not Enough (1999)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Hate Myself For Loving You | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Hallway Swimmers - Nightswag (featured in Greener Grass) | Carrie Hope Fletcher & Original West End Cast of Heathers - Beautiful | Wynton Marsalis - Woman In Blue (feat. Willie Jones III, Philip Norris, Isaiah J. Thompson, Ted Nash, & Daniel Pemberton) | The Vogues - My Special Angel | Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up | Thomas Wander & Harald Kloser - Midway End Titles | Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders - Le Mans 66 | Ludwig Göransson - The Mandalorian (Theme) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Evel Knievel (1971) | Pat Williams - I Do What I Please | Clip from Lucky Penny Shop: Vintage 1970’s Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle with Action Figure and Energizer Playset, Ideal Toys” https://youtu.be/DQKXgHwYAJM | Harold Faltermeyer - Bus Chase / Cocaine - Tango & Cash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clips from Tango and Cash (1989) | Garbage - The World Is Not Enough | Dido - Thank You
We have come here to chew bubblegum and make a podcast to celebrate John Carpenter's 1988 B-movie classic, They Live. And we are all out of bubblegum. If you don't know this film, then dammit, go watch it! For everyone else, try not to focus too much on the fact that its message remains depressingly relevant 31 years later. But at least it has the best fight scene ever filmed. Don't question that, it is just a fact. OBEY CONSUME STAY ASLEEP BUY SUBMIT LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:50 - The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix, 2019) | 8:55 - His Dark Materials (HBO, 2019) | 14:15 - Watchmen (HBO, 2019) | 22:55 - Zomboat! (Hulu, 2019) | 27:10 - Letterkenny (season 7) | 30:40 - They Live (1988)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Wake Up - They Live (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Daniel Pemberton - The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance | Lorne Balfe - His Dark Materials | Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - OWL HUNTS RAT - HBO’s Watchmen Soundtrack | Loup Garoux - Sleep Forever | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Back to the Street - They Live (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clips from They Live (1988) | Clips from Saints Row IV | John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Coming to L.A. - They Live (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Can you think of ONE GOOD SONG by an artist or band you otherwise despise? That is a challenge, one we found to be deceptively difficult. Seriously, please don’t expect us to defend anything by Nickelback. Or Creed. Or Ed Sheeran. Luckily, those are all indefensible and we won’t waste your time. But that doesn’t mean we don’t make the case for a few other songs that we actually enjoy from artists that normally make us want to drive icepicks into our earholes. Even a shite band can rise above their own mediocrity to create a single, solitary tune that is - dare we say it? - listenable. Unless that band involves Nickelback, Creed or Ed Sheeran. As always, the opinions expressed on this show are arbitrary and in no way reflect a sane, reasonable judgment about anything.
Check out a playlist of these not-so-hidden gems here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4rfKfcFN0H1HiwpBFylf6Q?si=oTCF-darQJmk4-M1413j_g Or here: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/magnificently-huge-ep-112-one-good-song/pl.u-jxjNIdqvb15
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:05 - Star Trek Discovery Season 2 [SPOILERS] (CBS, 2019) | 12:36 - Deadpool 2 | 20:12 - Anastasia (Broadway, touring) | 27:43 - Terminator: Dark Fate [SPOLIERS] (2019) | 33:31 - JoJo Rabbit (2019) | 37:20 - Oingo Boingo Former Members | 44:11 - Katy Perry | 46:36 - Pearl Jam | 51:04 - Lil Wayne | 52:22 -Red Hot Chili Peppers | 56:06 - Maroon 5 | 59:24 - Britney Spears | 1:01:50- Guns N Roses | 1:05:06 - Taylor Swift | 1:08:48 - Megadeth | 1:11:00 - The Black Eyed Peas | 1:13:38 - Hole | 1:15:05 - Coldplay
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Hate Myself For Loving You | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Jeff Russo - Main Title (aired Version) - Star Trek Discovery (Original Series Soundtrack) | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Diplo, French Montana & Lil Pump - Welcome to the Party (feat. Zhavia Ward) | Celine Dion - Ashes | Evynne Hollens - Once Upon a December (from Anastasia) | Tom Holkenborg - My Name Is Dani - Terminator Dark Fate | Clip from The Terminator (1984) | The Beatles - Komm gib mir deine Hand | Oingo Boingo Former Members - Only A Lad (live) | Oingo Boingo Former Members - Grey Matter (live) | Oingo Boingo Former Members - Minnie The Moocher (live) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Katy Perry - Hot n Cold | Katy Perry - Roar | Katy Perry - Firework | Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl | Katy Perry - E.T. (feat. Kanye West) | Pearl Jam - Jeremy | Lil Wayne - Uproar (feat. Swizz Beatz) | Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away | Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby | Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge | Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground | Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera) | Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe | Maroon 5 - This Love (Roman Tkachoff Deep Cover) | Britney Spears - Toxic | Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again | Guns N’ Roses - Welcome To The Jungle | Taylor Swift - Shake It Off | Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | DJ Cummerbund - Taylor Swift / Tool - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together / Stinkfist | Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction | The Black Eyed Peas - My Humps | The Black Eyed Peas - Let’s Get It Started | The Black Eyed Peas - Let’s Get Retarded | Hole - Celebrity Skin | Coldplay - Clocks (DJ Sandstorm remix) | Coldplay - Square One | The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Another Star Trek show? You’re damn right, because Star Trek is a touchstone of American geek pop culture. And if you don’t like it, you probably had a girlfriend in high school. But so what? Let’s talk 90s era Trek: from Next Generation to Deep Space Nine to Voyager, plus the movies, a smidge of Enterprise, wack-a-doodle timelines, and the short-lived United Paramount Network... because money eventually ruins everything.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:09 - Zombieland: Double-Tap (2019) | 8:10 - The Laundromat (Netflix, 2019) | 11:15 - Dolemite Is My Name (Netflix, 2019) | 16:40 - Undone (Amazon, 2019) | 19:50 - AWOLNATION (live) | 22:10 - Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) | 26:30 - Parasite (2019) | 31:55 - Star Trek | 45:00 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | 54:30 - Star Trek: Voyager
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek: The Next Generation Theme | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | David Sardy - Outro Song - Zombieland Double Tap | Clip from Repo Man (1984) | Eli “Paperboy” Reed and the True Loves - I’m Gonna Getcha Back | Rudy Ray Moore - Dolemite | AWOLNATION - Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf) (live) | Geoff Zanelli - Mistress of Evil - Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Jung Jaeil - The Belt of Faith - Parasite (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Alexander Courage - Star Trek (Original Series Main Title) | Russel Watson - Faith of the Heart (Star Trek: Enterprise Theme) | Dennis McCarthy - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Main Title, Season IV) | Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek: Voyager (Main Title) | Clip from Fight Club | Clip from Star Trek: The Next Generation s2e16 - “Q Who?” | Leonard Nimoy - Highly Illogical
Martin Scorsese recently went on record to state that superhero movies – more specifically, Marvel movies – are “not cinema” and nothing more than “amusement park rides.” To the legendary filmmaker behind movie classics like Taxi Driver, Goodfellas & Raging Bull we only have this to say: Yeah? Well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. But one thing is certain, he touched a nerve with filmgoers and started a worthy conversation about the state of the cineplex today. He maybe didn’t choose the best phrasing, and old white guys yelling at kids to get off their lawns is not always a good look when trying to make a point. But hey, Scorsese has still made some kickass films and is legit one of the greatest living directors, so he can say whatever he wants. It just so happens that we can also disagree with him, too. | 0:00 - Intros | 5:20 - Gotham (Fox, 2019) | 10:25 - Hercule Poirot | 18:30 - Adventurous Stills | 19:25 - Gemini Man (2019) | 26:50 - Scorsese V. Marvel
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Danny Cannon, Graeme Revell & David Russo - Gotham Main Title (Extended Version) | Lorne Balfe - Bike Fu - Gemini Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clip from Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Martin Scorsese at London Film Festival press conference (2019) | Clip from Nightline (1983) with Roger Ebert and John Simon | Devo - Freedom of Choice
It’s the annual ham-fisted #MagHuge attempt at a Halloween-themed show as we scare up some laughs with a bloody awful talk about horror comedies! It’s monsters, zombies, vampires and homicidal, ax-wielding woodsmen galore in a parade of classic films that took the normal fright tropes and added some killer jokes that always make us smile in between the gruesome deaths. Plus, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special from 1976 gets a hot take! So take off that cheap plastic mask, grab a handful of your favorite mini-candy, and enjoy a survey of some of our favorite hilarious scare-fests...before we smash some pumpkins, egg your house, and tee-pee your yard. Because Halloween.
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:20 - Joker (2019) - SPOILERS | 19:30 - Debbie Harry - Face It | 23:00 - Metalachi (live) | 25:50 - Pat Benatar (live) | 28:30 - The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976) | 38:20 - Horror Comedies
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Los Straitjackets - The Munsters Theme | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Hildur Guðnadóttir - Defeated Clown - Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Hildur Guðnadóttir - Call Me Joker - Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Metalachi - Rainbow In The Dark (live) | Metalachi - Pour Some Sugar On Me (live) | Pat Benatar - You Better Run (live) | Clips from The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Joseph Lo Duca - Ash Dream - Evil Dead II | Race - Nothing At All (from The Toxic Avenger) | Mike Shields - Holding On (from Tucker and Dale Vs Evil) | The Evolved - Blue Wrath (from Shaun of the Dead) | Disco Baby - The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
Do you like heists? Guns? Method actors? Method actors playing coked up characters? Method actors getting coked up and chewing scenery while doing heists and shooting a LOT of guns? Have we got a movie for you! This week the #MagHuge crew revisits the 1995 Michael Mann crime classic “Heat” starring Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, and pretty much everyone else who was awesome in the mid-90s.
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:11 - Redd Kross | 6:23 - Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) | 12:09 - Star Trek: Timelines (iOS) | 20:26 - Linda Ronstadt - The Sound of My Voice (2019) | 22:23 - The Death of Dick Long (2019) | 28:23 - Heat (1995)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Moby - New Dawn Fades | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Redd Kross - When Do I Get To Sing My Way? | Redd Kross - The Party | Kriss Kross - Jump | Clips from Joe Versus The Volcano (1990) | Music from Star Trek Timelines | Clip from Star Trek S1E20 - Court Martial | Linda Ronstadt - You’re No Good | Linda Ronstadt - When Will I Be Loved | Staind - It’s Been A While | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Moby - God Moving Over the Face of the Waters | Clips from Heat (1995) | Elliot Goldenthal - Force Marker - Heat (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Episode 107 - Fall 2019 Movie Preview
As the ginormous Summer 2019 movie season fades into memory, we look ahead to all the stuff still on deck for an equally ginormous Fall. From the Oscar bait and giant sequels to war epics and literary adaptations, Fall 2019 promises something for everyone. We got biopics, kid flicks, a Broadway classic, and oh yeah, that little Star Wars movie, too. Join the MagHuge crew as they give their hot take on the expected highs and projected lows for what is sure to be a blockbuster end to another gluten-free year in film.
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:00 - Ocean’s 8 (2018) | 7:45 - The Elder Scrolls: Blades (Bethesda, 2019) | 10:45 - Miss Saigon (Touring) | 17:15 - Marvel vs Sony Spider-Man | 19:05 - Undone (Amazon, 2019) | 22:00 - Ad Astra (2019) | 28:30 - Fall Movie Preview 2019 | 29:50 - October movies (Joker / Downton Abbey / Lucy In The Sky / Gemini Man / Jexi / The Addams Family / Jay & Silent Bob Reboot / The King / JoJo Rabbit / Zombieland 2: Double Tap) | 44:45 - November movies (Motherless Brooklyn / Terminator: Dark Fate / Doctor Sleep / Midway / Charlie’s Angels / Ford vs Ferrari / A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood / Knives Out) | 58:11 - December movies (Jumanji: The Next Level / A Hidden Life / Cats / Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker) | 1:05:43 - The Irishman | 1:06:15 - More December movies (1917 / Little Women / Spies In Disguise)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Boston Pops Orchestra & John Williams - Hooray For Hollywood | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Charles Aznavour - Parce que tu crois - Oceans 8 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Inon Zur - The Elder Scrolls: Blades - Main Theme | Kim’s Nightmare (Live) - Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording | Lea Salonga & Simon Bowman - The Last Night of the World - Miss Saigon (Original London Cast Recording) | Jonathan Pryce - The American Dream - Miss Saigon (Original London Cast Recording) | Amie Doherty - Large Ventricles - Undone (soundtrack) | Max Richter - To The Stars - Ad Astra (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Jimmy Durante - Smile | Vic Mizzy - The Addams Family - Main Theme | RIAYA - Hunter | Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey - Don’t Call Me Angel (Charlie’s Angels) | John Williams - The Last Jedi
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
The Office was better left in the UK. Rocky is schlocky. Nintendo Gameboy was an overpriced Tetris brick. The Godfather is...boring. Terminator 2 is big, dumb & loud. This week, we press a few buttons and go after a few sacred cows when we take a cold, hard look at some things our culture has elevated into legendary status and ask: Were they ever really any good?
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:45 - Dave Chappelle - Equanimity / The Bird Revelation (Netflix, 2017) | 5:17 - Bill Burr - Paper Tiger (Netflix, 2019) | 6:46 - Poseidon (2006) | 8:25 - Hyperdrive (Netflix, 2019) | 10:12 - Control (Xbox One X, 2019) | 13:45 - The Goonies (1985) vs The Lost Boys (1987) | 21:18 - The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix, 2019) | 26:12 - That’s Overrated - GameBoy / Atari 2600 / Cell Phones | 31:30 - The Office (US) | 37:25 - The Godfather (1972) | 41:10 - Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) | 48:57 - Rocky (1976) | 54:15 - James Bond
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray & India Adams - That’s Entertainment (From “the Band Wagon”) | Richard Cheese - Nooki | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Clip from Dave Chappelle - Sticks and Stones | Klaus Badelt - The Poseidon - Poseidon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Hyperdrive Trailer | Petri Alanko & Martin Stig Andersen - Et Ratio Principalis - Control (Original Soundtrack) | Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister (Theme from The Lost Boys) | Cyndi Lauper - The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough | Daniel Pemberton - The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Jay Ferguson - The Office Theme Song | Nino Rota & Carlo Savina - Main Title (The Godfather Waltz) - The Godfather (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Trailers for Teminator 2: Judgement Day | Bill Conti - Gonna Fly Now (Theme from “Rocky”) | The Jam - That’s Entertainment
Where are we going? Planet 10! When? Real soon! Yes, the MagHuge team finally gets around to the uber-geek cult classic to end all uber-geek cult classics: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! This gem was ignored when released to theaters in June of 1984, but soon found an audience on home video who discovered a unique sci-fi/comedy/action/adventure epic about a famous neurosurgeon/physicist/test-pilot/rock-musician and his team of specialized misfits who become involved in an interdimensional space war between alien Lectroids. Almost impossible to describe in one sentence, you’ll just have to trust us that this one is a pleasantly weird film experience that rewards repeat viewings. If you haven’t already seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it right now! Then come back to our show where we gush over its many charms. Featuring early roles for Peter Weller, Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow and Jeff Goldblum - plus a solid supporting cast with Clancy Brown, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya and Vincent Schiavelli - Buckaroo Banzai gets high marks for being both of its time, but also well ahead of its time. You either love it or hate it, but one thing is for sure: No matter where you go, there you are.
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:36 - Mindhunter (Netflix, 2019) | 9:05 - Alita: Battle Angel (2019) | 13:10 - Ready Or Not (2019) | 17:30 - Carnival Row (Amazon, 2019) vs The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix, 2019) | 24:08 - Lost 80’s Live | 28:15 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Jason Hill - Main Titles - (Mindhunter Original Series Soundtrack) | Tom Holkenborg - Motorball - Alita Battle Angel (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Brian Tyler - Badass Bride - Ready Or Not (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Headquarters Music - The Hide and Seek Song - Ready Or Not (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Nathan Barr - Carnival Row - Theme Song | Daniel Pemberton - The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Boys Don’t Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy (Live) | The Vapors - Turning Japanese (Live) | Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (Live) | Wang Chung - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? / Everybody Have Fun Tonight | Clips from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) | Michael Boddicker - Buckaroo Banzai - End Title Theme
John Candy created some very iconic comedy moments during his career. Blues Brothers. Stripes. Vacation. Splash. Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Spaceballs. Uncle Buck. Home Alone. SCTV. That’s quite a run. But take a closer look - from his early SCTV days through his final role in 1994 - and you'll find a staggeringly uneven filmography. We hate to admit it, but all those classic movies we love are balanced by a lot of stinkers. But it’s a lot of stinkers wherein John Candy still managed to be really, really good. It’s our homage to consummate character actor John Candy, a man who elevated everything he was in, even if he was the only funny thing about it. Now, here’s a quarter...why don’t you go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face.
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:30 - Craig Zahler | 9:50 - Lizzo | 12:30 - Future Man (Hulu, 2017) | 15:24 - The Fixx (Live) | 18:02 - This Charming Band (Live) | 19:28 - Strangelove (Live) | 24:04 - Blinded By The Light (2019) | 26:20 - The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) | 30:45 - John Candy
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | The O’Jays - Street Corner Felines (feat. Eddie Levert & Walter Williams) - Dragged Across Concrete (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Ry Cooder - Somewhere In The Desert - End Title - Last Man Standing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Lizzo - Cuz I Love You | Lizzo - Juice | Theme to Future Man | Kenny Loggins - Playing With the Boys | The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another (Live) | This Charming Band - Panic (Live) | Strangelove - Black Celebration (Live) | Strangelove - People Are People (Live) | Bruce Springsteen - Blinded By the Light | Jonathan Sadoff, Zachary Dawes, Noam Pikelny & Gabe Witcher - What Is Your Name - Elanore Canvasing - The Peanut Butter Falcon (Orignial Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from The Blues Brothers (1980) | Clip from Volunteers (1985) | Clip from Splash (1984) | Clip from SCTV | Clip from Little Shop of Horrors (1986) | Digital Underground - Same Song | Fear of Pop - I Paid My Money | Clips from Uncle Buck (1989) | Sammy Davis, Jr. - The Candy Man
Music in the 1990s was about a lot more than just flannel shirts. Well, it was about a little more than that, anyway. In the days before Napster and Apple Music, bands could still make a living putting out a crappy album with one good song. This week, we’re taking a look at the best and the worst of the 90s one-hit wonders. Because on a podcast, a show about music is about more than just songs - it’s about click bait. I’m too sexy!
Listen to a playlist of all these songs here! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ptoNN6e0GXm5t70ZOIxPr?si=-_DvfQ3oSQCOuAJQs06dpg Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/episode-102-chumba-one-hit-wonder-wumbas-90s-songz/pl.u-GX2bIZ8Rb1N
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:45 - Glow (Season 3, Netflix) | 14:19 - The Farewell (2019) | 17:15 - Awesome; I F*ckin’ Shot That! (2006) | 21:30 - Pillow (smartphone app) | 27:30 - 90’s one hit wonders
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Chumbawumba - Tubthumping | Eminem - My Name Is | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Patty Smyth and Scandal - The Warrior | The Lie (feat. Mykal Kilgore) - The Farewell (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Beastie Boys - An Open Letter To NYC | Beastie Boys - Paul Revere (Live) | Fat Boys - All You Can Eat | Newcleus - Jam On It | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Metallica Napster Bad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS6udST6lbE) | Deee Lite - Groove Is In the Heart | The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin’ Beats | P.J. Harvey - 50 ft. Queenie | Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta | The Flys - Got You (Where I Want You) | LEN - Steal My Sunshine | Spacehog - In The Meantime | Toadies - Possum Kingdom | Lo Fidelity Allstars - Battle Flag Pigeonhead | Snap! - The Power | Hanson - MMMBop | Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back | 4 Non Blondes - What’s Up? | Right Said Fred - I’m Too Sexy | Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations | Snow - Informer | Whale - Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe | Blind Melon - No Rain | Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome | Semisonic - Closing Time
How many sequels are legitimate improvements over the movie they spawned from? Let’s face it, most are pointless exercises in redundancy and made to be straight up cash grabs. They typically lack whatever alchemy drew us to the original in the first place. Producers merely slap a big 2 on the title and call it a day, then count the receipts But every so often a sequel comes along that actually improves upon the first one in unexpected ways - bigger, better, stronger, faster… But finding a superior sequel is way harder than it sounds. The gauntlet was thrown this round as we each pick an arbitrary example of a Solid #2 that we think is superior to the first movie. Please note, only one Electric Boogaloo was harmed in the making of this podcast.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:23 - Enemy At The Gates: The Battle For Stalingrad (Craig, William 1974) | 9:56 - Ren & Stimpy | 13:19 - The Boys (Amazon, 2019) | 17:41 - Spamilton (touring) | 22:05 - The Lion King (2019) vs Dora and the Lost City Of Gold (2019) | 29:45 - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | 33:30 - The Godfather, Part II (1974) | 35:22 - Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) | 37:20 - Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) | 47:50 - Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) | 50:00 - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) | 58:10 - X2: X-Men United (2003)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Shalamar - The Second Time Around | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | The Fallen of World War II (https://youtu.be/DwKPFT-RioU) | Die Screaming Leiderhôsens - Dog Pound Hop (Ren and Stimpy Theme Song) | Christopher Lennertz - Translucent Alive - The Boys (Music from the Amazon Original Series) | Original Cast Recording - Ben Franklin, Sondheim & Lin-Manuel - Spamilton: An American Parody | Original Cast Recording - Aaron Burr, Sir, Nervous-er - Spamilton: An American Parody | John Debney & Germaine Franco - Dora and the Lost City of Gold | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from Dora and the Lost City of Gold (Isabela Moner - Poo Hole Song) | John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra - Han Solo and the Princess - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Nino Rota & Carlo Savina - Main Title (The Godfather Waltz) - The Godfather (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Trailer for Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo | Clip from Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan | Clip from Star Trek: The Motion Picture | James Horner - Main Title - Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Quincy Jones and His Orchestra - Soul Bossa Nova (Dim’s Space-A-Nova) - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Music from the Motion Picture) | John Ottman - Suite From X2 - X2: X-Men United | James Horner & London Symphony Orchestra - Bishop’s Countdown - Aliens (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
If you’ve ever dreamed of seeing an episode of CSI: Miami co-starring The Golden Girls caught up in a drug cartel murder, have we got a show for YOU! That’s right, we’re delving into the world of ill-conceived television show crossovers. What is a TV Crossover? That’s when characters from two distinct shows wind up forcibly coexisting within a single combined storyline that ultimately diminishes anything you ever liked about either program. But be careful what you wish for, superfans. Teaming Frasier with The A-Team may sound like fun, but in practice it will make your eyes bleed. We take a look at some classic crossovers that defied both logic and viewer patience and created some of the most bizarre television we have ever experienced. Because that’s entertainment!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:35 - The Rain (2018) | 8:01 - Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie (live) | 12:38 - Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood (2019) | 19:36 - The Alarm / Gene Loves Jezebel / Modern English (live) | 25:30 - Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs And Shaw (2019) | 30:40 - Justice League (2017) / Aquaman (2018) | 35:06 - TV Crossovers
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra - A Swingin’ Safari | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | The Rain - Opening title music | Rob Zombie - Dragula (live) | Rob Zombie - Get Your Boots On! That’s The End Of Rock And Roll! | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Buchanan Brothers - Son of a Lovin’ Man | Gene Loves Jezebel - Twenty Killer Hurts (live) | Modern English - I Melt With You (live) | The Alarm - The Stand (live) | YUNGBLUD - Time In a Bottle - Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Danny Elfman - The Justice League Theme - Justice League (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air | Clip from The X-Files (Bad Boys Cops Theme) | Clips from Family Guy: The Simpsons Guy | Clip from The Simpsons: 24 minutes | Clip from Power Rangers in Space | Clip from Magnum P.I. | Julie Brown - ‘Cause I’m A Blonde | Clip from St. Elsewhere | Clip from MTV Movie Awards with William Shatner | Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract
Welcome to the future! Where everything is shiny and fancy, we have lots of free time, and no one is hungry. A time when there’s a chicken in every pot and a flying car in every garage. Well… That’s what they told us anyway. Looks like we got played again, because it was all a giant lie! This week's episode is about movies from the past that predicted the future. And that future is now. (At the time of recording, anyway. If you’re playing this someday in the future while cruising the skies in your flying car, we are totally wrong. But then we're also probably dead from a thermonuclear war, too, soooo…) Anyway, no flying cars, no Soylent Green, no vacations on the moon... The future sucks.
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:14 - Star Trek: Discovery (Season 1 SPOILERS) | 10:52 - Stranger Things 3 (Netflix, 2019) | 17:03 - The Art Of Self Defense (2019) | 20:40 - The Boys (Amazon, 2019) | 28:24 - Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood (2019) | 33:30 - The Future!
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Clip from Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) | Toto - ???? | Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Jeff Russo - Main Title (aired Version) - Star Trek: Discovery (Original Series Soundtrack) | Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein - Stranger Things (Theme) | Robin Sparkles - Let’s Go To The Mall | The Art Of Self Defense - Official Trailer | Christopher Lennertz - Translucent Alive - The Boys (Music from the Amazon Original Series) | Jose Feliciano - California Dreamin’ | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra | Clip from Idiocracy (2006) | Clips from “Walter Cronkite - The 21st Century” (March 12, 1967) https://youtu.be/I7TUZ_x57d8 | Thomas Newman - Wall-E - WALL-E (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | John Williams - Minority Report (Minority Report Soundtrack) | Consolidated - Strike
The book is always better than the movie, or so the conventional wisdom goes. But some films get things mostly right and are actually watchable, regardless of whether or not you’ve read the source material. This week we discuss 3 random examples of a Good Adaptation: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. All are fine novels in their own right, and each of the films adapted from them manage to work cinematically without sacrificing what originally made the books so engaging in the first place. At the very least, the filmmakers didn’t screw anything up and they transitioned the properties well from page to screen. Which is all we really ask when we are too lazy to read the damn book, anyway.
| 0:00 - Intros | 2:50 - Star Trek: Picard (2020) | 4:48 - Top Gun: Maverick (2020) | 8:05 - The End Of The Fucking World (2018) | 10:07 - Star Trek: Discovery (SPOILERS for Season 1) | 15:00 - Apollo 11 (2019) | 21:29 - The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) | 24:00 - Good Adaptations | 26:48 - Trainspotting (1996) | 41:00 - The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) | 49:35 - Ready Player One (2018)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Tears For Fears - Change | Star Trek: Picard - SDCC 2019 Trailer | Cats (2019) Official Trailer | Top Gun: Maverick - Official Trailer (2020) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Buzzcocks - Why Can’t I Touch It? | Jeff Russo - Main Title (aired Version) - Star Trek Discovery (Original Series Soundtrack) | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Matt Morton - Liftoff and Staging - Apollo 11 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Jazz Collective - Feeling Good | Trailer for Three Men and a Little Lady | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Iggy Pop - Lust For Life | Howard Shore & Munich Symphony - Main Title - The Silence Of The Lambs (Original Motion Picture Score) | Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses | Alan Silvestri - Ready Player One (End Credits) - Ready Player One (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | David Bowie - Changes
Bugsy Malone (1976) is an intensely weird movie starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster. It’s a gangster epic set in the 1930s about a turf war between two rival mobsters. All the normal gangster film cliches are present, including the regular archetypes - the street tough mob boss, a sultry, world-weary femme fatale & a smooth talking con man caught in the middle. But it is cast only with children under the age of 16. And if that doesn’t spell box office bonanza, it’s also a musical - but all the songs were sung and recorded by adults. Oh, and instead of tommy guns, they shoot lethal cream pies. If that bizarrely accurate description doesn’t sell you on one of the strangest films ever created, then you ain’t seen nuthin yet.
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:56 - Revolutions (podcast) | 12:20 - All Hail The Silence / Men Without Hats / Howard Jones (Live) | 22:58 - Stuber (2019) | 30:14 - Colossal (2016) | 33:57 - Bert Kaempfert | 36:27 - MAD Magazine | 40:26 - Bugsy Malone (1976)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Paul Williams - Overture - Bugsy Malone (Original London Cast) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | All Hail The Silence - The Alarm | Men Without Hats - Pop Goes The World (Live) | Men Without Hats - S.O.S. (Live) | Men Without Hats - Moonbeam (Live) | Howard Jones - Everlasting Love (Live) | Howard Jones - Life In One Day 2.0 (Live) | Howard Jones - Like To Get To Know You Well (Live) | Joseph Trapanese - Not Ryan Gosling - Stuber (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Bear McCreary - The Colossal Finale - Colossal (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Bert Kaempfert - Afrikaan Beat | Bert Kaempfert - Sweet Caroline | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Paul Williams - Bugsy Malone | Paul Wiliams - Fat Sam’s Grand Slam Speakeasy | Paul Williams - You Give A Little Love | Paul Williams - So You Wanna Be A Boxer | Paul Williams - Down And Out | Paul Williams - My Name Is Tallulah | Clip from Airplane! (1980)
In 1992, Oliver Stone said, “John Ford makes Westerns. I make Vietnamers.” (No - seriously. He really said that.) And like John Ford with westerns, Oliver Stone may not have invented the genre, but he definitely dominated it with three films (or four, if you include “JFK”) about America’s first dalliance with imperial conquest and the war we couldn’t win. Join the gang this week as we explore the complicated genre of Vietnam War Movies - the good, the bad, and the jingoistic!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:45 - Stranger Things (Season 3) | 10:00 - Yesterday (2019) | 14:50 - Star Trek: Discovery (Season 1) | 19:10 - Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (book. Plokhii, 2018) | 23:05 - Black Mirror - Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too | 27:05 - Vietnam movies
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Dead Milkmen - Beach Party Vietnam | Timbuk 3 - The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein - Stranger Things (Theme) | Himesh Patel - Yesterday (From The Album “One Man Only”) - Yesterday (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Himesh Patel - Help! (Live At Pier Hotel) - Yesterday (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Jeff Russo - Main Title (aired Version) - Star Trek Discovery (Original Series Soundtrack) | Bomani “D’mite” Armah - Read A Book | Ashley O - On a Roll (Black Mirror) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Trailer for Missing In Action 2: The Beginning (1985) | Trailer for Casualties Of War (1989) | Trailer for Born On The Fourth Of July (1989) | Trailer for The Green Berets (1968) | Trailer for Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (1979) | Clip from Rambo: First Blood Part 2 (1985) | Metallica - One (official video) | Johnny Mandel - Suicide Is Painless | Clip from Platoon (1986) | Clip from Apocalypse Now (1979)
If Vince Clarke is one of the fathers of synth pop, Ron and Russel Mael are the insecure older stepbrothers of synth pop. Yes, Sparks is one of the most influential anti-pop pop bands you've never heard of. And we aim to change that pronto.
Sparks excels at songs about vanity, sexual frustration, and grooming that taught a whole generation that wished they looked a little better how to avoid being eaten by the monster of love and seek out the cool places. Tips for teens, indeed!
This podcast ain’t big enough for their entire song catalog, but dick around with the #maghuge crew for an hour and I predict you just might become a fan.
Listen to these playlists to turn yourself into a superfan!
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1nbCmASOVA3VIeDvLWiJZ3?si=GAZcaoOMRBeKmx1Zpmj-lA
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/sparks-introduction/pl.u-jxaDsdqvb15
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:48 - Xanadu (1980) | 12:49 - Fosse / Verdon | 19:30 - Dark Phoenix (2019) | 25:36 - Anna (2019) | 32:08 - Know This Band intro | 34:30 - The Hits | 40:25 - Evolution of the Sparks sound | 57:04 - Deeper cuts and favorites
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Sparks - Amateur Hour | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | ELO & Olivia Newton John - Xanadu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Olivia Newton John & Gene Kelly - Whenever You’re Away From Me - Xanadu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Olivia Newton John & The Tubes - Dancin’ - Xanadu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Alex Lacamoire - Fosse/Verdon Theme | Joel Grey - Willkommen - Cabaret (Original Soundtrack) | Hans Zimmer - Gap - Dark Phoenix (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | BONES UK - Pretty Waste | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Sparks - Upstairs | Sparks - I Predict
| Sparks - Cool Places | Sparks - Eaten By The Monster Of Love | Sparks - This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us | Siouxsie & The Banshees - This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us | Sparks - Tryouts For The Human Race | Sparks - Tips For Teens | Sparks - Modesty Plays | Sparks - Dick Around | Sparks - I Wish I Looked A Little Better | Sparks - Mustache | Sparks - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth | Martin L. Gore - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth | Sparks - When Do I Get To Sing “My Way” | FFS - Collaborations Don’t Work | Sparks - Lighten Up, Morrissey | Sparks - All You Ever Think About Is Sex | Sparks - Talent Is An Asset | Sparks - The Decline And Fall Of Me | Sparks - Wonder Girl | Sparks - Dance Godammit | Sparks - I Wish You Were Fun | Sparks - Nothing To Do
SPOILER ALERT! Spider-Man is back for his second solo MCU outing - Spider-Man: Far From Home - and we’ve got a spoilerific minisode for you that is brimming with hot takes and nonsense! Endgame is over, The Blip is now part of continuity and Iron Man is gone. What is Peter Parker to do? Why, take a trip abroad and see the sights, that’s what! Yep, it’s a full on European Vacation for your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man...complete with Nick Fury quips, Mysterio illusions, MJ snark and, most importantly, The Night Monkey. The Webslinger tries his best to step out from Tony Stark’s long shadow only to find out once again that with great power comes great responsibility. It’s kind of his thing.
| Clips | Michael Giacchino - Theme (From “Spider Man”) [Original Television Series] | Trailer for Three Men and a Little Lady | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Michael Giacchino - Far From Home Suite Home - Spider-Man: Far from Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You | Michael Giacchino - Night Monkey Knows How to Do It - Spider-Man: Far from Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Michael Giacchino - And Now This... - Spider-Man: Far from Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Michael Giacchino - The Magical Mysterio Tour- Spider-Man: Far from Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Eminem - Venom
It’s our Dark Knight Do-Over! Way back in the early days of this podcast - before sound man extraordinaire Brian joined the team - our second show ever was about Batman. And it was, well... not great. So we decided to try and correct the sins of the past by rebooting the damn thing, just like they keep doing with the movies. Direct from our Gotham City Studios, here is yet another ill-advised, ill-informed take on The Caped Crusader! Using the various films as a springboard, we dive into the franchise that will either die a hero or live long enough to see itself become the villain. But, y’know, with the special brand of weirdness as only MagHuge can do.
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:04 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | 12:24 - Fosse / Verdon | 16:48 - Cadence of Hyrule | 20:50 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Touring) | 33:15 - Batman (section) Begins! | 34:50 - Worst Batman | 46:10 - Best Batman | 58:14 - Best Joker | 59:57 - Best Catwoman | 1:01:37 - Rogues Gallery | 1:03:40 - Final thoughts
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Neal Hefti - Batman Theme | Beastie Boys - Root Down | ZZ Top - Pearl Necklace | Clip from Bolt (2008) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Burt Bacharach - The Sundance Kid | Burt Bacharach - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head | Alex Lacamoire - Fosse/Verdon Theme | Clip from Portlandia | Overworld - Cadence of Hyrule Soundtrack | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley - Pure Imagination | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from The Dark Knight (2008) | Eminem - Venom | Kevin Conroy does other Batman actor’s lines! (Mothership) https://youtu.be/48wGUdUOvUc | Danny Elfman - Batman Theme | Prince - Batdance
Of all the years in film, 1981 was one. It's our look back at a curiously influential year in cinema that rarely gets the acknowledgement we feel it deserves. Lost arks were raided, chariots were on fire, and ponds were golden. Superman kneeled before Zod while cannonballs ran. James Bond had disco music, Arthur was a bit tipsy, and Bill Murray got his stripes. Time Bandits was (and always will be) Time Bandits. And that's just in the Top Ten! 1981 was also an astonishingly good year for many of the classic genre films you know and love. But don't take our word for it until you listen to this podcast!
| 0:00 - Intros | 08:37 - Late Night (2019) | 13:54 - Men In Black: International (2019) | 23:12 - Black Mirror: Striking Vipers (S05E01, 2019) | 28:55 - Sparks - Number One In Heaven | 35:21 - Movies of 1981
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | John Carpenter - Main Title - Escape from New York (Original Film Soundtrack) | Scorpions - Still Loving You | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Lesley Barber - Late Night “Molly’s Theme” - Late Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Danny Elfman & Chris Bacon - Logos - Men In Black: International (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Three Men And A Little Lady Trailer (1990) | Sparks - The Number One Song In Heaven | Sparks - Tryouts For The Human Race | Sparks - Dick Around | Sparks - Eaten By The Monster Of Love | Clip from Bolt (2008) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | George Harrison - Dream Away | Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only | Bill Conti - Melina’s Revenge - For Your Eyes Only (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Vangelis - Chariots of Fire | Clip from Stripes (1981) | Christopher Cross - Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) | John Williams - Main Title March (Superman The Movie) | Mel Brooks - The Inquisition - (from History of the World, Part I) | Joey Scarbury - Theme from “Greatest American Hero” (Believe It or Not)
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
The new Godzilla movie is out and we REALLY wanted to like it. This latest iteration is part of what is now being dubbed The Monsterverse - a shared cinematic universe that includes King Kong, Mothra, Rodan, Ghidorah and other kaiju who are apparently on this earth solely to destroy crowded cities. But something this time out feels… missing. Godzilla is a lean, mean, 50-story tall CGI machine, protecting the human race from a nasty giant space beast with 3 heads. So Godzilla: King of the Monsters should be a slam-dunk, right? If it ain’t broke don’t try and fix it, we say.
| 0:00 - Intros | 6:53 - Game Of Thrones | 15:05 - The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance | 18:27 - Rocketman | 29:00 - Good Omens (Amazon - 2019) | 35:45 - Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Crawdaddy-O - Godzilla | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Ramin Djawadi - Main Titles - Game of Thrones (Music from the HBO Series) | Metallica - Better Than You | Trailer for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance - Rocketman (Music from the Motion Picture) | Taron Egerton - Rocket Man - Rocketman (Music from the Motion Picture) | Taron Egerton & Jamie Bell - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Rocketman (Music from the Motion Picture) | Taron Egerton & Kit Connor - Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) - Rocketman (Music from the Motion Picture) | David Arnold - Good Omens Opening Title | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Bear McCreary - Godzilla Main Title - Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
If you could attend a party from any movie, which one would it be? From Bachelor Party to Animal House to 16 Candles and beyond, cinema is brimming with crazy ragers & unforgettable fiestas... and every single one of them is a tad problematic. We take a look at some classic movie parties from the last 50 years and can’t decide what we enjoy most about them - the overt misogyny and casual racism, the wanton vandalism and disregard for public safety, or maybe just those rockin soundtracks full of our favorite hit songs. RSVP for FUN as we crash Movie Parties Gone Out of Bounds!
| 0:00 - Intros | 8:15 - Cari Mora (Thomas Harris - 2019) | 10:40 - Aladdin (2019) | 17:30 - Long Shot (2019) | 22:25 - Catch 22 (Hulu - 2019) | 29:00 - Parties
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Andrew W.K. - Party Hard | Lionel Ritchie - All Night Long | The Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit | Mike Epps pitches “That’s Racist” / “That’s Racist” kid | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Mena Massoud & Naomi Scott - A Whole New World - Aladdin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Naomi Scott - Speechless, Pt. 2 - Aladdin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Will Smith - Prince Ali - Aladdin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Marco Beltrami & Miles Hankins - Charlotte’s Theme - Long Shot (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Nat Gonella - It’s A Pair Of Wings For Me | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | The B-52’s - Party Out of Bounds
Episode 89 - Tapeheads: Parabellum
Yo Friends, check this out! The 1988 cult comedy Tapeheads was way ahead of its time. A weird, anarchic, and purposely silly poke in the eye to the second wave of MTV culture that put image above all else, this film can arguably be seen as the opening salvo in what would become the slacker Gen-X ethos of the early 90’s. Featuring early lead roles for John Cusack & Tim Robbins, plus stellar cameos from Don Cornelius (Sout Train), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), The Lords of the New Church, Fishbone, and 60s soul legends Sam & Dave as The Swanky Modes! - this one remains a perennial favorite of the MagHuge squad. Oh, and and we also discuss how John Wick 3: Parabellum is now the best video game movie of all time. It is an audio feast surpassed only by Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles.
| 0:00 - Intros | 7:03 - How Did This Get Played? (podcast) | 12:00 - The Hustle (2019) | 15:30 - John Wick 3: Parabellum | 23:50 - Tapeheads (1988)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | A.J. Swank and the Swanky Modes - Ordinary Man | Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead | Simply Red - If You Don’t Know Me By Now | RuPaul - Supermodel (You Better Work) | Cake - Rock ‘n’ Roll Lifestyle | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Anne Dudley - The Hustle | Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard - Parabellum (Opening Titles) - John Wick 3: Parabellum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Tapeheads (1988) | Devo - Baby Doll (Swedish Version) | Fishbone - Slow Bus Moving | King Cotton - Roscoe’s Rap | Stiv Bators And The Zeroes- Mr. MX-7
Deep Impact Vs. Armageddon. Two movies. Same basic plot. All stupid. The MagHuge team tackles the strange film phenomenon that literally hundreds have already covered before: Two movies released in the same year by different studios that tell the same basic story. This round we blast-off to destroy 1998 Extinction Level Event meteor movies Deep Impact and Armageddon. Each film is a star-studded romp about giant rocks on a collision course with Earth and the crazy space plan that just might save humanity. But first a bunch of cities need to get leveled and millions of innocent people must perish. In short, stuff blowed up real good. So which one wore it better? Listen and find out!
| 0:00 - Intros | 4:20 - The Strongest Man In The World (1975) | 10:05 - It Could Happen Here (podcast) | 14:58 - James Bond Novels (audio books) | 21:20 - John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) | 23:57 - Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) | 29:06 - Who Wore It Better? Deep Impact (1998) or Armageddon (1998)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Def Leppard - Armageddon It | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Robert F. Brunner - The Strongest Man In The World (1975) Opening Title | Clips from The Strongest Man In The World (1975) | Clip from “Thunderball” as read by Jason Isaacs | Clip from “On Her Majesty's Secret Service” as read by David Tennant | Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard - On the Hunt - John Wick (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Henry Jackman - Game On - Pokémon Detective Pikachu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Armageddon (1998) | Aerosmith - I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing
Pew! Pew! Pew! It’s another look at a few more not-very-good movies released between 1978 and 1985 that wanted desperately to be like Star Wars, but fell comically short. That’s right, it is Part 2 of our ongoing series about space adventures that did everything they could to ride the Skywalker gravy train all the way to the bank. This round we marvel at recycled Roger Corman dud Space Raiders, oddball sci-fi cult-comedy Ice Pirates, and interesting Disney failure The Black Hole. These relics of a bygone era may be guilty pleasures now, but one thing is for sure - they are most definitely NOT Star Wars. And we still can’t believe it.
| 0:00 Intros | 6:30 Hanna (Amazon Prime - 2019) | 7:35 Good Omens (book) | 10:20 What We Do In The Shadows (FX - 2019) | 14:00 Mortal Kombat 11 | 18:27 Wicked (touring) | 25:22 Space Raiders (1983) | 35:54 The Ice Pirates (1984) | 51:20 The Black Hole (1979)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Alala - Cantina Band (Epic Version) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Mahna Mahna (from The Muppet Show) | Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow - Training - Music from Hanna (2019) distributed by Amazon Prime Video | Lastochka - Leningrad (from What We Do In The Shadows) | The Immortals - Techno Syndrome (the Mortal Kombat song) | Kristin Chenoweth, Sean McCout, Cristy Candler & Jan Neuberger - No One Mourns the Wicked - Wicked (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel - Defying Gravity - Wicked (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | James Horner - Space Raiders - Main Title | Clips from Space Raiders (1983) | Bruce Broughton - Jason Abducts Princess Katrina - The Ice Pirates | Clips from The Ice Pirates (1984) | John Barry - The Black Hole | Worst French Horn Player - Star Wars Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSZx2lM5tHY)
SPOILERS ABOUND! You’ve been warned! If you haven’t seen the (kinda sorta maybe) final Marvel movie about the Avengers - appropriately titled Endgame - then A) Crawl out from that rock you’ve been under and watch Avengers:Endgame, then come back; or B) Keep listening to our amazing, full-on fanboy, spoiler-filled lovefest about the most epic superhero sequel EVER MADE. The OG6 Avengers are all here: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye - plus all the newer folks - and we have followed them through all 22 movies in the craziest extended universe continuity ever put on film. Does it finally pay off in the Endgame? Spoiler: We sure think so!
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Alan Silvestri - Theme from Avengers | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Alan Silvestri - Totally Fine - Avengers: Endgame (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Jack Urbont - Captain America (1966) | Jack Urbont - The Incredible Hulk (1966) | Jack Urbont - Mighty Thor (1966) | Jack Urbont - Iron Man (1966) | Alan Silvestri - Portals - Avengers: Endgame (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Alan Silvestri - Main On End - Avengers: Endgame (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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
In 1978, iconic rock band KISS conquered the globe with their all out rock assault and unrivaled marketing savvy. Their fans - The KISS Army - were legion and happily bought the records, saw the concerts and collected the limitless merchandise. It was peak KISS. Naturally, the band decided to put one more notch on their studded leather belts and conquer ALL media - with a tragically conceived, poorly written, horribly acted and cheaply produced TV movie called KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. It was so awful that KISS disowned it for decades and forbade anyone from speaking of it in their presence. Which only led to a growing cult status that ensured it would never die. Take the Star Wars Holiday Special and fuse it with Scooby-Doo, then mate it with a low-budget kung-fu epic. The resulting child is then genetically spliced with Westworld and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera… And that barely even scratches the surface of how bonkers this gem of a movie is. And we love it! | 0:00 - Intros | 6:00 - Miracle Workers (TBS) | 8:47 - Dumbo (2019) | 14:20 - Shazam! (2019) | 19:45 - Van Gogh exhibit (Houston, TX) | 22:00 - Santa Clarita Diet (Season 3) | 27:20 - KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park (1978)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Kiss - Rock and Roll All Nite | Dead Kennedys - Forest Fire / Shonen Knife - Gyoza / The Stooges - I’m Fried | Clip from Repo Man (1984) | !!! - Shit Scheisse Merde, Pt. 1 / Thomas Bangalter, 113 - 113 Fout la Merde | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from Miracle Workers s1e3 “12 Days” | Danny Elfman - Soaring Suite - Dumbo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Beastie Boys - Shazam! | Benjamin Wallfisch - SHAZAM! - Shazam! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | KISS - Rip and Destroy | Clips from KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park (1978) | Ace Frehley - New York Groove | Kiss - Beth | Kiss - Shout It Out Loud | Tom T-Bone Stankus - Purple Rain | KC & The Sunshine Band - Boogie Shoes | KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It) | ABBA - Money, Money, Money | ABBA - Mamma Mia | Village People - Y.M.C.A. | Cantori Gregoriani, Fulvio Rampi - Clamaverunt Iusti | Family Guy - Major General | Northwestern University Kazoo Choir - Hallelujah Chorus | Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin’ You
It’s the good, the bad and downright ugly from the world of stand-up comedy this week! Times change, tastes change - but some things are funny no matter the era. Then there’s the comedy that, well… HASN’T aged very well. Some jokes that were acceptable for their time are super-cringeworthy now due to the evolving cultural landscape. What used to get big laughs seems gobsmackingly sexist now - bigoted, misogynistic, callous, tone-deaf jokes made at the expense of a minority. Some of the comedy we revisit here is uncomfortably dated, but we admittedly LOVED it when we were kids because it was naughty. But we also didn’t know any better back then. So yes, Virginia, funny DOES sometimes have a shelf life. Trigger Warning: Some of the comedy reviewed here is definitely NSFW and parental guidance is advised!
With the 20th anniversary of The Matrix, we decided to take a novel approach and actually discuss the Matrix films themselves. You probably see a lot of articles right now surrounding The Matrix, how those Alt-Right psychopaths appropriated the concept of the “red pill,” the similarities between “jacking in” and your addiction to Facebook…
We would rather talk about how these films ushered in the era of geek culture. Sure, that may have forever ruined Comicon, and high school jocks identifying with a particular X-Man, but it also gave us a cultural goose of technological fantasy. If that’s not your thing, it sucks to be you, because The Matrix started it all, and it’s with us now.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourselves. OR, you can listen to this week’s show! So… yeah, never mind that stuff about how you can’t be told… that was nonsense.
| 6:15 The Fifth Element (1997) | 11:07 Jealous of the Birds | 15:00 Welcome To Night Vale | 18:45 Dig! (2004) | 25:10 Sex Education | 27:10 David Tennant Does A Podcast With… | 29:35 The Matrix (1999) | 43:04 The Matrix Reloaded (2003) & The Animatrix (2003) & Enter The Matrix (2003) & The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Propellerheads - Spybreak | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Éric Serra - The Diva Dance | Clips from The Fifth Element (1997) | Jealous of the Birds - Kosiskelu | Jealous of the Birds - Marrow | Jealous of the Birds - Russian Doll | Coldplay - Yellow | Mike Epps pitches “That’s Racist” / “That’s Racist” kid | Clip from Welcome To Night Vale - 131 - Brought To You By Kellogg’s | Negativland - Time Zones | The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Anenome | The Dandy Warhols - You Are Killing Me | The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You | Ezra Furman - Love You So Bad | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Don Davis - Main Title / Trinity Infinity | Fluke - Zion | Juno Reactor - Mona Lisa Overdrive | Clips from The Matrix (1999) | Clip from MTV Movie Awards (2003) | Clips from The Animatrix (2003) | Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up
SPOILER WARNING! Buckle up, kids! Here comes our spoilerific review of Captain Marvel - the 21st entry in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the penultimate story to Avengers: Endgame! We talk Feminism, Flerkens and Fury’s Eyeball in the first Marvel movie to finally feature a woman in the lead role. And it’s about time. Plus, it is a pseudo-prequel set in the grunge-tinged nostalgia of the mid-90s so you know the soundtrack is awesome. But where does Captain Marvel stand in relation to the rest of the MCU? There is a lot to unpack on this one so let’s get started, shall we?
Also, VIVA LA GOOSE THE CAT!
| Clips | Captain Sensible - Wot | Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam | Pinar Toprak - Captain Marvel - Captain Marvel (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Elastica - Connection | Nirvana - Come As You Are | Mike Epps pitches “That’s Racist” / “That’s Racist” kid | Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains | Clips from Captain Marvel (2019) | Pinar Toprak - This Isn’t Goodbye - Captain Marvel (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Radiohead - Fitter Happier | No Doubt - Just A Girl | Clip from Mallrats (1995) | Brie Larson - She Said | Robin Sparkles - Let’s Go To The Mall | Staind - It’s Been A While | Hole - Celebrity Skin
Have you noticed how many comedies there are today specifically about the afterlife, or celestial bureaucracy? From "The Good Place" to "Good Omens" to "Forever" to "Preacher," there are a lot of these shows running right now. Why? Is our long running existential crises turning into existential comedy? Are we trying to make ourselves feel better about where we're all heading, or do we finally not care about being alive anymore? Obviously laughs abound this week!
| 3:45 - Russian Doll | 6:28 - Letterkenny | 9:39 - John Wick | 17:26 - Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend (podcast) | 20:08 - Art Bell | 21:58 - Monster (podcast) | 25:00 - Afterlife movies (Death Comedy Jam) | 30:38 - Defending Your Life (1991) | 35:50 - Other Romantic Death Comedies | 38:40 - Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) | 39:45 - This Is The End (2013) | 41:17 - Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life (1983) | 45:00 - Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) / Heaven Can Wait (1978) | 47:55 - The Frighteners (1996) | 49:17 - R.I.P.D. (2013) | 52:51 - The Afterlife on TV
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Kid Capri - Def Comedy Jam closing credits (season 7) | Dead Kennedys - Forest Fire / Shonen Knife - Gyoza / The Stooges - I’m Fried | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up | Love - Alone Again Or | Clips from Letterkenny s01e03 - “Fartbook” | Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard - On the Hunt - John Wick (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clips from Coast To Coast AM with Art Bell | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from Defending Your Life (1991) | Clip from The Exorcist (1973) | Kiss - God Gave Rock N Roll To You | Clips from This Is The End (2013) | Clip from Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life (1983) | Blue Oyster Cult - (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
We love Joe Dante! And we think you should too! He blew our early teenage minds and helped define 80’s pop culture with Gremlins. But here’s the thing: Joe Dante has made a bunch of other films that also impacted us here at MagHuge on a personal - almost visceral - level. We don’t think we’re alone in this, either. While we can’t imagine a world without Gremlins (or its deliciously bonkers sequel) it is worth noting that Dante’s entire filmography is imbued with infectious fun and laced with a pure love of cinema that has few equals. No small feat for a career that has spanned over 40 years across multiple genres. And for this, we salute Mr. Dante in what is perhaps our most obsequious show to date!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:27 - Annihilation (2018) | 9:06 - Crackdown 3 | 15:35 - Umbrella Academy | 20:25 - Isn’t It Romantic? (2019) | 24:48 - Alita: Battle Angel (2019) | 32:07 - R.I.P. Dick Miller | 34:00 - Piranha (1978), Rock and Roll High School (1979), and The Howling (1981) | 41:40 - Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) and Gremlins (1984) | 47:20 - Explorers (1985) and Innerspace (1987) | 55:25 - Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) | 1:00:30 - The ‘Burbs (1989) | 1:03:33 - Gremlins 2 (1990) | 1:08:15 - Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998), Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
| Clips: | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Peter Gabriel - Out Out - Gremlins - Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack | Clip from “Powerthirst” | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Annihilation - Annihilation (Music from the motion picture) | Clip from The Matrix (1999) | Finishing Move Inc. - Nimbus - Crackdown 3 (Original Game Soundtrack) | Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy | House of Pain - Jump Around | Gerard Way - Hazy Shade of Winter (feat. Ray Toro) | I’m not Okay Ft. Despacito (My Chemical Romance / Luis Fonsi mashup) | Rebel Wilson, Liam Hemsworth, Adam DeVine, Priyanka Chopra, Betty Gilpin & Brandon Scott Jones - Express Yourself - Isn’t It Romantic (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Trailer for Isn’t It Romantic? (2019) | Tom Holkenborg - Motorball - Alita Battle Angel (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from Gremlins (1984) | Ramones - Rock and Roll High School | Clip from Red Hot Riding Hood (1943) | Clips from Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) | Jerry Goldsmith - The Gremlin Rag | Jerry Goldsmith - The Construction - Explorers soundtrack | Jerry Goldsmith - Gut Reaction - Innerspace soundtrack | Jerry Goldsmith - The Cowboy - Innerspace soundtrack | Clips from Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) | Clips from The ‘Burbs (1989) | Jerry Goldsmith - Gremlin Credits - Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clips from Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) | Clip from Key & Peele | Clips from Matinee (1993) | Clips from Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003) | C + C Music Factory - Things That Make You Go Hmmmm | Jerry Goldsmith - Merrily We Roll Along / Prologue / Just You Wait - Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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
Welcome to the 2nd Golden Age of Television! You are now living in a halcyon time when your home entertainment choices are almost limitless, and the sheer quality of programming is consistently staggering. Yes friends, we are in Peak TV at this very moment - and we ain’t mad at it. The phenomenon dates back to at least the 1990s and TV has since evolved into something almost beyond TV. New-era showrunners are taking more risks in narrative, tone and style because few are beholden to traditional ratings or advertisers anymore. Which is great for all us viewers! If the advent of television in the 1950s marked its Golden Age when the industry rules were set, then this time - here and now - can easily lay claim to the title of The Second Golden Age of Television where the only rule is: There are no rules. | 0:00 - Intros | 4:22 - MAS*H (book. Hooker, 1968) | 5:57 - The Princess Bride (book. Goldman, 1973) | 9:26 - Polar (2019) | 15:13 - The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | 18:01 - Salvador Dalí (2019) | 20:36 - Disney’s Aladdin (touring) | 26:21 - The Assassination of Gianni Versace (2018) | 28:48 - The Good Place (season 3) | 32:12 - John Wick (2014) | 34:55 - 2nd Gilded Age of Television | 52:36 - They Shall Not Grow Old (2019) | 58:18 - Post-Television
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Alabama 3 - Woke up This Morning (The Sopranos Mix) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Pages Turning Sound Effects from https://youtu.be/IbkXtcjnJm0 | deadmau5 - somb - Polar (Music from the Netflix Film) | clip from 2019 Super Bowl trailer for The Twilight Zone (2019) | Dillon Francis - Catchy Song (featT-Pain & That Girl Lay lay) | Beck - Super Cool (feat. Robyn & The Lonely Island) | Carol Channing & Hello, Dolly! Ensemble - Hello, Dolly! | Alan Menken - Overture - Aladdin (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Clip from Aladdin (1992) | Brian Gonzales, Jonathan Schwartz, Brandon O’Neil & The Original Broadway Cast of Aladdin - High Adventure - Aladdin (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Mac Quayle - Adagio in G Minor (Tomaso Albinoni) - The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (Original Television Soundtrack) | David Schwartz - The Good Place Opening Music | Tyler Bates & JHoel J. Richard - On the Hunt - John Wick (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | Bruce Springsteen - 57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)
The 2019 Summer movie season is almost here and we can't wait! We’ll get you prepped & ready for all the superheroes, sequels, remakes and kid flicks hitting the metroplex from March thru July - and there is a ton to look forward to. Disney and Marvel may run the roost in 2019, but there are a few outside contenders that may surprise…looking at you John Wick. Also Godzilla. And maybe Pikachu. So sit back and take notes, because Summer starts now!
| 0:00 - Intros | 5:35 - The Punisher (Season 2) | 13:25 - Star Wars has questionable door locks | 16:35 - Invention (podcast) | 18:50 - Star Trek: Discovery (Season 2) | 22:11 - Executions | 24:26 - The Good Place (Season 3) | 25:25 - Future Man (Season 2) | 27:18 - Amplified (Phoenix Art Museum) | 30:33 - Even more hating on the Boomers | 34:00 - Captain Marvel | 39:15 - Best Picture Nominees (2018) | 42:06 - Dumbo (2019) | 45:00 - Aladdin (2019) | 46:22 - The Lion King (2019) | 48:30 - Toy Story 4 (2019) | 50:30 - Avengers: Endgame | 53:50 - Spider-Man: Far From Home | 55:24 - Shazam! (2019) | 57:46 - Hellboy (2019) | 59:20 - X-Men: Dark Phoenix | 1:01:33 - Pet Semetary (2019) and Child’s Play (2019) reboots | 1:05:00 - The Secret Life Of Pets 2 (2019) | 1:06:06 - Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019) | 1:08:33 - Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (2019) | 1:10:12 - John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) | 1:12:00 - Shaft (2019) | 1:13:10 - Men In Black International (2019)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Cars - Magic | Boston - More Than A Feeling | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Tyler Bates - The Punisher (Main Title) | Clip from Invention podcast intro | Jeff Russo - Main Title (aired Version) - Star Trek: Discovery (Original Series Soundtrack) | Negativland - Time Zones | David Schwartz - The Good Place Opening Music | Clip from The Good Place s3e9 - Chidi Sees the Time Knife | Clip from Peep Show s3e2 Super Hans | Halli Cauthery - Future Man Theme | Jerusafunk - Live performance at Phoenix Art Museum | Clip from SNL Millennial Millions | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Elastica - Connection | Clip from Captain Marvel trailer 3 | Kendrick Lamar, SZA - All The Stars | AURORA - Baby Mine - Dumbo | Clip from Collegehumor - “Tim Burton’s Secret Formula” | Bruce Adler - Arabian Nights - Aladdin | Trailer for The Lion King (2019) | Randy Newman - You’ve Got A Friend In Me | Trailer for Shazam (2019) | Eminem - Venom | Billy Idol - Mony Mony | Trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix | Ramones - Pet Semetary | Trailer for Pokemon: Detective Pikachu | Trailer for John Wick Chapter 3 - Parabellum | James Horner & London Symphony Orchestra - Bishop’s Countdown
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
If you could make ANYTHING you wanted to right now - movie, TV show, whatever - what would you make? Eric, Brian and Chris ponder this very important hypothetical and come up short. Again. The best idea we could muster is a crossover reboot series combining classic 80s TV shows “The A-Team” and “Manimal” before we hit a wall of existential dread and unanimously decided that everything is horrible. But in a good way! Plus, there’s some awesome new Fresh $&!t at the top of the show to get things rolling. Enjoy!
| 0:00 - Intros and New Years | The Good Place | Doctor Who: Resolution | Beastie Boys | Mary Poppins (1964) | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | What We Do In The Shadows (2014) | Mortal Engines (2018) | Bumblebee (2018) | Crap We Think Should Be Made | Toxic Masculinity | Reboots | Biopics | Ex Communication | Books to be made into films | Why do we have society
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | David Naughton - Makin’ It | Trailer for Zardoz (1974) | Life During Wartime - Once In A Lifetime | Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It | Kriss Kross - Jump | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | David Schwartz - The Good Place Opening Music | Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise | Clip from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Carter Burwell - The Book - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Leningrad - Lastochka | Tom Holkenborg - The Chase - Mortal Engines (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Dario Marianelli - Bee on the Run - Bumblebee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Simple Minds - Don’t You (Forget About Me) | Sammy Hagar - I Can’t Drive 55 | Nu Shooz - I Can’t Wait | Imperial House Records “60 Juke Box Hits” commercial | The Smiths - Girlfriend In A Coma | Ce Ce Peniston - Finally | Stan Bush - The Touch | Clip from BUMBLEBEE CAN GET IT! (ft. Lindsay Ellis) - Movie Talk & Spoilers | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clip from South Park s19e10 - “PC Principal Final Justice” | Clip from Automan (1983) | Clip from Manimal (1983) | Ethel Merman - Chicken Today, Feathers Tomorrow - Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July | Clip from Airplane! (1980) | Beastie Boys - Get It Together (featuring Q-Tip) | Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble - This Is Me - The Greatest Showman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clip from Life of Brian (1979) | Death In June - Nothing Changes
That’s right, in lieu of any fresh ideas this week it’s our big, bloated, over-extended, full-episode version of the regular segment we like to call The Fresh $&*t. Hear us talk about all the media and fun we’ve consumed since the previous show and then give our opinions on the things that matter most in life - like movies, music & video games! Because you can’t spell FUN without Magnificently Huge!
| 0:00 - Intros | 3:30 - Mary Poppins Returns (2018) | 18:52 - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) | 25:35 - Aquaman (2018) | 35:27 - The Good Place | 40:11 - The Greatest Showman (sing along) (2017) | 42:24 - Bad Santa (2003) | 45:18 - Gus (1976) | 51:13 - Anna and the Apocalypse (2018) | 57:00 - The Beastie Boys Book | 1:04:10 - Widows (2018) | 1:07:38 - Beat Saber | 1:10:00 - 2.0 (2018)
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | DEVO - Fresh | Staind - It’s Been A While | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Marc Shaiman - Overture - Mary Poppins Returns (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Company A Cover Is Not the Book - Mary Poppins Returns (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Blackway & Clack Caviar - What’s Up Danger - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Soundtrack From & Inspired by the Motion Picture) | Chris Pine - Spidey-Bells (A Hero’s Lament) - A Very Spidey Christmas - EP | Rupert Gregson-Williams - Arthur - Aquaman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clip from Superfriends | Clip from Entourage S2E1 - Boys Are Back In Town | Theme from The Good Place | The Greatest Showman Cast - The Greatest Show (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clip from Gus (1976) | Clip from Avatar: The Last Airbender | The Cast of Anna and the Apocalypse - Hollywood Ending - Anna and the Apocalypse (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Ben Wiggins - Soldier at War - Anna and the Apocalypse (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Beastie Boys - Rhymin’ & Stealin’ | Beastie Boys - Paul Revere | Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump | Beastie Boys - Funky Boss | Hans Zimmer - The Job - Widows (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Jaroslav Beck - Unlimited Power (feat. Frank Bentley) - Beat Saber | Sid Siriam & Shashaa Tirupati - Endhira Logathu Sundariye 2.0 [Tamil] (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The burning dumpster fire that was 2018 gets a rundown on the show this week. And it’s a hoot! From all the people that died, to the wacky crimes you see when you elect the clown from “It” President.
But it’s not all angst and suicide instructions, nay! We also talk about the TV shows that were hits, and in the Fresh $hit, we review National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, the PlayStation VR, Dear Evan Hansen, The Favourite, and Ralph Breaks the Internet.
Chris says funny things, Brian groans with exasperation at the group childishness, and Eric stammers a LOT… it’s everything you hope for when you listen to The Magnificently Huge Podcast. Which is good - because that’s what we do, yo.
| 0:00 Intros | 5:48 Ant Man and the Wasp (2018) | 8:55 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) | 12:13 PlayStation VR | 16:28 Dear Evan Hansen | 22:37 The Favourite (2018) | 26:29 Ralph Breaks The Internet (2018) | 32:19 Things Eric is looking forward to | 34:19 Year in review intro | 35:51 Notable celebrity deaths in 2018 | 47:55 Happy news events in 2018 | 52:10 And the rest of the news was terrible | 58:37 And then there’s the Trump news which is even worse | 1:09:45 TV in 2018 | 1:15:04 Music in 2018 | 1:17:34 Movies in 2018
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The SalSoul Orchestra - New Year’s Medley: Auld Lang Syne | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Christophe Beck - It Ain’t Over Til The Wasp Lady Stings - Ant Man and the Wasp (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Kathryn Jones - Title Song from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation | Clip from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation | Jason Graves - Twofold - Moss (Original Game Soundtrack) | You Will Be Found - Ben Platt, Krisolyn Lloyd, Will Roland, Laura Dreyfuss & Original Broadway Cast of Dear Evan Hansen | Mike Faist, Benn Platt & Wil Roland - Sincerely, Me - Dear Evan Hansen Original Broadway Cast Recording | Rachel Barton Pine - I. Vivace - from The Favourite | Henry Jackman - Site Seeing - Ralph Breaks the Internet Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot & Cast - A Place Called Slaughter Race - Ralph Breaks the Internet Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire | Nice Peter and Epic Lloyd - Einstein vs Stephen Hawking - Epic Rap Battles of History #7 | David Cross - Stephen Hawking impression.wav | Fresh Bush and the Invisible Man - Hard Times | Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out | Kenny Loggins - This Is It | Ariana Grande - thank u, next | Superchunk - What a Time to Be Alive | 38 Special - Caught Up In You | Tyler, the Creator - I’m The Grinch | Eminem - Venom | Trailer for Once Upon A Deadpool
This Christmas we see your Bah! and raise you a Humbug! when we unwrap Holiday movies that need to take a damn holiday already! Hear us Grinch-out about all those ubiquitous Christmas flicks shown on a perpetual loop every December until that yule log begins to smell a bit gamey and we need to crack a window. And by the way, why does Christmas always need saving? Seriously, Santa seems to go missing quite a lot on the ONE night of the year he is supposed to actually work. You had one job, man. One job! Anyway, Happy Holidays from all of us to all of you!
| 0:00 Intros | 4:49 The Stuff They Don't Want You To Know (Podcast) | 6:20 The RFK Tapes (Podcast) | 7:51 This Is Not Fame - Doug Stanhope | 10:02 What's Up Doc? (1972) | 13:11 Hollywood - Charles Bukowski | 14:18 Robin Hood (2018) | 19:43 The Grinch (2018) | 23:38 Suicide Squad (2016) | 25:02 Christmas Movies | 54:05 Our Picks for which ubiquitous Christmas Movies to stop showing
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Hawk Nelson - The Wassail Song | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Clip from This Is Not Fame by Doug Stanhope (audio book) | Ryan O’Neal and Barbra Streisand - You’re The Top - What’s Up Doc? | Clips from What’s Up Doc? | Joseph Trapanese - Money to the People - Robin Hood (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Clip from Last Action Hero | Clip from The Grinch | Scratching The Itch - Seuss Type Thing | Tyler, the Creator - I Am the Grinch (feat. Fletcher Jones) - The Grinch Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Eminem - Venom | Tyler, the Creator - You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch - The Grinch Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Clips from It’ A Wonderful Life | Al Green & Annie Lennox - Put a Little Love in Your Heart - Scrooged | Clip from Saving Christmas | Welcome Christmas - from How The Grinch Stole Christmas | Baby It’s Cold Outside - from Elf | Carl Zitter & Paul Zaza - Sleigh Bells - A Christmas Story (Music from the Motion Picture) | Bing Crosby - White Christmas | Bing Crosby - Abraham - from Holiday Inn | Clip from Love, Actually | Queensrÿche - White Christmas
Jumping The Shark is the moment when a TV show has peaked then begins a slow, downward spiral into irrelevance. All shows have a definite shelf life, but it’s the ones that stay well past their recommended expiration date that resort to increasingly desperate measures to grab an ever-dwindling viewership. Adding obnoxiously cute kids, stunt casting with inexplicable celebrity cameos or presenting bizarre storylines that make zero sense within the show’s previously understood logic (like Fonzie from Happy Days literally jumping a shark) - these are the hallmarks of inevitable decline. But like any good roadside carnage, we can’t help but slow down and rubbnerneck a bit before leaving the wreck in our rearview mirror.
| 4:30 On Your Feet (Touring company) | 5:20 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) | 7:17The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) | 11:30 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) | 19:12 Fargo (TV Series) | 21:34 Daredevil (season 3) | 30:55 Jumping The Shark | 36:00 Happy Days | 40:40 House of Cards | 42:43 Replacing cast members and add-a-kid | 44:48 Battlestar Galactica | 48:07 Make it a musical! | 49:55 Spock’s Brain | 52:19 The Six Million Dollar Man meets Sasquatch | 53:10 MAS*H | 55:28 Weeds | 57:55 Fallout 76 | 1:01:53 Gunsmoke season 18
| Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Crystal Method - Over It ( feat. Dia Frampton) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Original Broadway cast of On Your Feet - Get On Your Feet | Original Broadway cast of On Your Feet - Conga | Miami Sound Machine - Dr. Beat | Nate Heller - Noel Coward / John Hancock - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | James Newton Howard - The Nutcrakcker and the Four Realms (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | James Newton Howard - Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Jeff Russo - Fargo Main Theme (Choir) - Fargo Year 3 (An Original MGM / FXP Television Series) | John Paesano & Branden Kimball - Main Title - Daredevil: Season 3 | Rodrigo Amarante - Tuyo (Narcos Theme) | Carter Burwell - The Book - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Pratt & Mc Lain - Happy Days | Clip from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | Jeff Beal - House of Cards (Main Theme) | Clip from “Roseanne” | Bear McCreary - All Along The Watch Tower (With Cylon Intro) | Chyler Leigh - Grey’s Anatomy Cast - Breathe (2 a.m.) | Oliver Nelson - The Six Million Dollar Man (intro theme) | Suicide is Painless (from MAS*H) | Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes | Rex Koury - Old Trails (theme from “Gunsmoke”) | Crowded House - Don’t Dream It’s Over
What is a budget band? Any band whose music rides the coattails of a more successful band. You’re not going to listen to 30 Seconds to Mars if you’ve got Maroon 5 around, are you?
Here's a Spotify playlist of the music in this episode! https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/6hzxT5O4QC9Ff873uJmlTg?si=gkBWAQ3eSI6CxldryNrBxA
0:00 Intro 6:10 Harry Potter (Books) 10:53 The Cat From Outer Space 13:40 Maniac (Netflix, 2018) 15:15 Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) 18:29 Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) 24:54 The Walking Dead 27:14 Budget Bands
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Bad News - Bad News Bizarre Inc. Featuring Angie Brown - I’m Gonna Get You Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat John Williams - Hedwig’s Theme - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Clip from Die Hard (1988) Trailer for The Cat From Outer Space (1978) Sandy Duncan’s Eye - Three Dan Romer - Annie and Owen - Maniac Howard Goodall - Opening Titles - Johnny English Strikes Again (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Trailer for Bohemian Rhapsody Queen - 20th Century Fox Fanfare Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh The Alarm - The Stand U2 - When Love Comes to Town U2 - Numb The Monkees - The Monkees (Theme Song from the show) Menudo - Quiero Rock Elton John - Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to Be a Long, Long Time) David Bowie - Space Oddity - Bowie At The Beeb (2000 remastered version) Triumph - Lay It On the Line Cardi B - Money Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines Marvin Gaye - Got to Give It Up Era Istrefi - Bonbon Badfinger - Come and Get It The Rutles - Cheese and Onions Greta Van Fleet - Highway Tune Krokus - Eat The Rich Jet - Get What You Need The Hives - Die, All Right! EMF - Unbelievable EMF - I Believe Stabbing Westward - Save Yourself Stabbing Westward - Shame Red Flag - If I Ever Xymox - Obsession Cause and Effect - You Think You Know Her Camouflage - The Great Commandment Scratching The Itch - Count Me Out Sum 41 - In Too Deep Blink 182 - All The Small Things Green Day - Holiday Richard Marx - Don’t Mean Nothing Muse - Time is Running Out John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads Muse - Knights Of Cydonia (Live)
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
Trick or treat! It’s the 1st Annual Magnificently Huge Halloween Hootenanny as we come to you disguised as a regular Halloween podcast. Join us during a fake costume party where we each dress as our favorite bad movie that has absolutely nothing to do with actual Halloween, then attempt to defend the choices with our typical charm, humor and eloquence. Yep, we obviously waited until the last minute - again - but accidentally made another classic episode anyway. The Worst Halloween Show Ever!
0:00 Welcome to our Halloween party 5:00 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 13:15 Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) 17:30 Colette (2018) 20:50 Metric - Art of Doubt 22:45 The A-Team - Cow Boy George 32:20 Tombstone (1993) 43:55 Species (1995) 55:15 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) 1:02:20 Halloween Candy
Clips: Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Crowd sound effect used under Creative Commons by permission of AR Sound Effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsXGCu2LsUE Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Michael Hunter - Theme from San Andreas (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto Michael Giacchino - A Room With an Entrez-Vous - Bad Times at the El Royale (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Metric - Dark Saturday Metric - Art of Doubt John Swihart - The A Team Title Theme Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? Culture Club - Move Away Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Clip from Tombstone (1993) Bruce Broughton - Tombstone Main Theme Christopher Young - Species Alan Silvestri - End Credits (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) Michael Jackson - Thriller
A long time ago people were into a thing called, “Science Fiction.” The idea was to take real - or somewhat possible - scientific concepts, apply them to fictional characters, and see how things played out. H.G. Wells, George Melies, Issac Asimov… they had a GAS with this stuff.
Cut to today and there’s a ton of stuff called "Science Fiction" that is really just Horror (like Alien) or Young Adult Fiction (like E.T.) or Action (like Marvel anything) or Screaming Abomination (like Independence Day). These things are called science fiction, but they really only carry its set dressing - spaceships, aliens, ray guns, and futurism.
In an effort to help you, our listener, understand the difference between real science fiction and poseur science fiction, we’re combing through the films, books, shows and everything else people typically call Sci-Fi when it usually ain't.
4:45 - RBG (2018) 6:25 - The House With A Clock In Its Walls (2018) 12:15 - The Hurricane Heist is now on Netflix 13:40 - Maniac (2018) 16:50 - Ozark (season 2) 19:55 - Fight Club book vs movie 22:00 - Ye Olde Tyme Sci-Fi - definitions 29:10 - Things that people call science fiction that aren’t 36:00 - Do these count? 40:21 - Bad science fiction 53:57 - Some examples of good science fiction
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Nathan Barr - Quite Different Around Here - The House With A Clock In Its Walls (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 38 Special - Caught Up In You Dan Romer - Annie and Owen - Maniac (Music from the Netflix Limited Series) Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Roy Clark - Ol Time Religion Clip from Thor (2011) Clip from Star Trek s1e20 “Court Martial” Clip from Star Trek: Voyager s3e4 “The Swarm” Clip from Total Recall (1990) Clip from Avatar (2009) Honda Asimo at USA Science and Engineering Festival Clip from Starship Troopers (1997) Clip from Black Mirror Don Davis - Main Title - The Matrix (Original Motion Picture Score) Bernard Hermann - Twilight Zone end title theme Richard O’Brien - Science Fiction / Double Feature
Need even more amazing 90’s nostalgia in your life? Well you are in for a real treat when the MagHuge crew tackles movies from the completely arbitrary year 1994! Everyone remembers cultural juggernauts Forrest Gump & Pulp Fiction - that’s the easy stuff. But we ignore those completely and instead pick our random Top Fives from The Year of the Gump. These are the flicks that invaded our normally pathological sense of Gen-X apathy to become...something. Whatever. It’s 1994.
0:00 Intros 5:17 Explained (K-Pop, Water Crisis, Gender Inequality) 11:00 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 14:00 some interesting commercials 15:14 Crazy Rich Asians 17:53 America’s Got Talent (Season Finale) 20:37 Fahrenheit 11/9 24:41 Beto O’Rourke 29:45 Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (2016) 32:45 1994 intro 38:00 Top 10 movies of 1994 46:20 Brian’s picks 56:05 Eric’s picks 1:08:00 Chris’s picks
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Ace of Base - The Sign Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Clip from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Blackpink - Boombayah Neil Patrick Harris - Angry Inch - Hedwig and the Angry Inch Neil Patrick Harris - Wig In a Box - Hedwig and the Angry Inch David Brill campaign ad Sally Yeh - Material Girl (200 Du) - Crazy Rich Asians (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Glennis Grace - Light Up (America’s Got Talent) Rachel Platten - Fight Song Clip from O’Rourke / Cruz debate The Clash - Clampdown Trailer for Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (2016) Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh The Cranberries - Linger “Weird Al” Yankovic - Gump Clip from Clerks (1994) Tasty Taste - Granny Said Kick Yo Ass - Fear of a Black Hat (1994) New Human Formantics - I’m Just A Human - Fear of a Black Hat (1994) Clip from Natural Born Killers (1994) Clip from The Professional (1994) Clips from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Episode 64 - I Can’t Believe It’s Not Star Wars, EP 1 - A Fandom Menaced
They may be blatant rip-offs of Star Wars filled with bad acting and laughable special effects, but we don’t care. Each is entertaining in its own weird way, even if it feels like we’ve seen it all somewhere before. Here is Volume 1 of our newest retrospective of shows to feature cinema inspired by the mother of all space operas, movies released to ride those coattails all the way to fat bags stuffed with cash. These odd gems run the gamut - from delightfully weird to cynical copycat garbage - and form a unique genre we aren’t going to shut up about any time soon: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Star Wars!
0:00 Intros 5:05 Mandy (2018) 10:22 Fear - Bob Woodward 12:45 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 15:40 Rushmore 18:15 Singin' In The Rain 23:17 TOBACCO 23:54 The Jesus And Mary Chain 26:15 Nine Inch Nails - Cold and Black and Infinite Tour (2018) 33:43 “You’re No Star Wars” Intro 37:09 Moonraker (1979) 40:13 Flash Gordon (1980) 52:14 Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone (1983) 58:05 Battle Beyond The Stars
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl John Barry - Overture - The Black Hole (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) John Barry - Into The Hole - The Black Hole (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Jóhann Jóhannsson - Seeker of the Serpent's Eye - Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Jóhann Jóhannsson - Starling Monologue - Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Barry Manilow - Mandy Jon Stewart on Crossfire (CNN) Staind - It's Been A While The Max Fischer Players - Out of Sight (MTV Movie Awards 1999) Donald O’Connor, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds - Main Title - Singin’ In The Rain (1952) Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor - Moses - Singin’ In The Rain (1952) Donald O’Connor - Make ‘Em Laugh - Singin’ In The Rain (1952) TOBACCO - Stretch Your Face The Jesus And Mary Chain - Blues From A Gun (Live) - Phoenix, AZ (2018) Nine Inch Nails - Mr. Self Destruct (Live) - Phoenix, AZ (2018) Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Shirley Bassey - Moonraker - Moonraker (Soundtrack) Clip from Portal 2 Queen - Flash’s Theme The Orb - Earth (Gaia) Tenacious D - Flash Elmer Bernstein - Main Title - Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone James Horner - Main Title (Battle Beyond The Stars) Clips from Battle Beyond The Stars Clip from Austin Powers: Goldmember John Williams - Finale - Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Look! Up on the internet! It’s not a bird! It’s not a plane! It’s the Magnificently Huge Podcast!
Direct from their Fortress of Stoopitude, your #MagHuge crew talks the Man of Steel himself, Superman! Plus, the new Spider-Man game for PS4 appears, and even Harry Potter gets some Muggle time in the Fresh $h!% .
Brian also talks about that unreleased Superman video game he worked on at Factor 5, so there’s some click-bait for ya.
We even built a truly EPIC playlist of Songs About Superman that you can listen to here: https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/7q8UuE4AbosvpyRBT3Ffbu?si=7n6SAQI3R9KUgi9VQD9fFQ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78N2SP6JFaI&list=PLsFUS5eZlrmgqZy74Oapp2ZbX-P-e12Nz
For more details on the Factor 5 Superman game, including concept art, character models and the trailer, check this article: https://www.unseen64.net/2009/03/09/superman-factor-5-x360ps3-cancelled/
0:00 Intros 3:48 Avengers: Age of Ultron 5:45 Marvel’s Spider-Man (Playstation 4) 12:27 Mazzy Star - Still EP 14:00 Harry Potter (books) 21:00 Lost 80’s tour 25:56 Electric Picnic in Hillsboro with Matt and Kim / Cake 30:50 The Americans 32:50 Superman 1:00:00 Inside Factor 5’s unreleased Superman video game! 1:07:00 Rogues Gallery 1:16:30 Songs about Superman
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl R.E.M. - Superman Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Danny Elfman - Heroes - Avengers: Age of Ultron John Paesano - Marvel’s Spider-Man Main Theme Just The Facts with J. Jonah Jameson (from Marvel’s Spider-Man) Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See (.ascension version) Clip from The Kids In The Hall s4e16 - Shirling Clip from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Missing Persons - Words (live) Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (live) When In Rome - The Promise Matt and Kim - Get It Negativland - Escape From Noise Danzig - Mother Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh John Williams - Prelude and Main Title - Superman The Movie Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Leon Klatzkin - Adventures of Superman Theme (Superman March) Sammy Timberg - Superman March (1941) Clips from Superman and Superman II Margot Kidder - Can You Read My Mind Crash Test Dummies - Superman’s Song Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Superman Powerman 5000 - Even Superman Shot Himself Laurie Anderson - O Superman The Dukes of Stratosphear - Brainiac’s Daughter
Episode 62 - MagHuge Goes Back to School
From the podcast voted Most Likely to Work Retail comes a show all about our favorite High School movies (that aren’t by John Hughes). You know, the ones that are total bulls**t and star people in their 30s pretending to have teen angst who are obsessed with losing their fake virginity. Follow us through a cinematic minefield of awkward crushes, fumbled kisses, pointless homework, clueless parents, mean kids, BFF’s, sticking it to the man, school dances, keggers, questionable decisions and more apathy than whatever, everything sucks. So buckle up you slackers! The #MagHuge team is going back to school!
0:00 Intros 5:10 Listener mail! 9:23 Duncan Hunter / Chris Hayes / Donald Trump / Manafort / Cohen 13:05 BlacKkKlansman 16:35 The Happytime Murders 21:00 Krull (Rifftrax) 25:35 Decline and Fall (BBC) 28:13 Fantastic Voyage (1966) 32:58 Back to School! Movies about school 46:46 School movies based on Shakespeare 48:00 Late 80’s school movies 49:34 Easy A and Mean Girls 51:00 Superbad 53:02 Freaks and Geeks 54:44 Character archetypes 1:02:00 Genre trappings 1:09:00 Our favorite school movies
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Josie Cotton - School’s In Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Clip from Blue’s Clues Salt-N-Pepa - Push It Clip from All In with Chris Hayes 8/24/18 Clip of David Duke in Charlottesville Red band trailer for The Happytime Murders TV edited version of Snakes on a Plane Jerry Goldsmith - Krull - Main Theme Clip from Fantastic Voyage (1966) Coolio - Fantastic Voyage Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Ramones - Rock and Roll High School The Cars - Moving in Stereo Bonnie Hayes With The Wild Combo - Girls Like Me Kenny Loggins - Footloose Clip from Superbad Joan Jett - Bad Reputation Clip from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
MTV doesn’t even pretend to be about music anymore. But was it EVER really about music? It’s the video network that made killing the radio star a mission statement to ensure that how music looks is more important than how it sounds. I WANT MY eMpTV!
Check out a playlist of music referenced in this episode here: https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/5WCHiJUQo2HrP8W0ag6Cp8?si=XE3OKR9gQsu9zf7Xu0Qthw
Intros R.I.P. Aretha Franklin Ex Machina Chris’s road trip America’s Got Talent: Human Fountains and Courtney Hadwin Better Off Dead The Meg MTV African American representation in the early days of MTV Precursors and competitors and VH1 Artists played on the first day VJs Duran Duran and the 2nd British Invasion David Bowie Hot chicks Favorite videos The decline and fall of MTV
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Jonathan Elias and John Petersen - MTV Top of the Hour theme music Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Val Kilmer - Skeet Surfin’ / Frank Zappa - Valley Girl Clip from The Blues Brothers (1980) Aretha Franklin - Nessun Dorma - The Grammy Awards (1998) Aretha Franklin - Respect Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - The Turing Test - Ex Machina Clip from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) Ninja Sex Party - First Date Courtney Hadwin - Hard To Handle Rupert Hine - Better Off Dub (Title Music) - Better Off Dead (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Trailer for The Meg Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Various MTV promos Top of the Pops The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody The Specials - Rat Race Michael Jackson - Billie Jean Various VH1 promos The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star Pat Benatar - You Better Run Clip from Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Asia - Heat of the Moment Duran Duran - Girls On Film David Bowie - Jazzin’ for Blue Jean David Bowie - Let’s Dance Ratt - Round and Round Van Halen - Hot For Teacher ZZ Top - Legs Madonna - Burning Up Olivia Newton John - Physical The Alan Parsons Project - Don’t Answer Me Yes - Leave It The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl DEVO - Freedom of Choice The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination Genesis - Land of Confusion Art of Noise - Close (To the Edit) Björk - Bachelorette “Weird Al” Yankovic - Dare To Be Stupid “Weird Al” Yankovic - Al TV theme The Pixies - Velouria Good Charlotte - Girls & Boys Metro Station - Shake It Dog Police - Dog Police Dead Kennedys - MTV Get Off The Air
Been there, done that, spent too much on the T-Shirt? Word of advice - don’t wear it to the same band’s show 20 years later (presuming it still fits) or people will point at the poseur. The #MagHuge crew is up to it's ears in music this week as we unearth our old ticket stubs to yammer on about all the awesome concerts we've been to and you haven't. And that's just the ones we remember! Proving yet again how very not cool we really are. So neener-neener boo-boo.
Plus, check out a playlist of the music from this episode! https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/4XMpNXMtLPWEaBjVqmqk7a?si=v7rBi168Qd-gP5z53vNQYQ
0:00 Intros 4:19 Star Trek 7:00 Teen Titans Go! To The Movies 12:36 The Venture Bros. 13:38 The Prisoner 17:17 Presidents Are People Too 19:33 Concerts intro - older people at concerts 23:18 Our first concerts 31:00 Why do we go to live shows? 38:00 Opening bands that were better than the headliner 41:15 Bands you went and saw because of a girl 46:30 Favorite stories from shows 55:43 Transcendental moments in shows 1:00:00 Shows we wish we could have seen 1:03:51 Bragging about shows 1:11:05 Brian’s stories about playing live
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Beastie Boys - Jimmy James Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Star Trek: The Next Generation s3e26 “Best of Both Worlds, Part 1” Star Trek Into Darkness Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Greg Cipes, Scott Menville, Khary Payton, Tara Strong & Hynden Walch - Go! - Teen Titans Go! To The Movies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Michael Bolton, Greg Cipes, Scott Menville, Khary Payton, Tara Strong & Hynden Walch - Upbeat Inspirational Song About Life - Teen Titans Go! To The Movies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) JG Thirlwell - No Vacancy (The Venture Bros. Theme) Clip from The Prisoner s1e1 “Arrival” Clip from The Prisoner s1e3 “A B and C” They Might Be Giants - James K. Polk Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh KISS concert intro The Wiggles - Wiggledance Live! Styx - Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) Live - Live at the Orleans Arena Las Vegas Def Leppard - Photograph (Live) - Mirror Ball: Live (Deluxe Version) Rolling Stones - Start Me Up - Let’s Spend The Night Together DEVO - Jocko Homo - Now It Can Be Told : DEVO at the Palace The Darkness - Get Your Hands Off My Woman (Live) Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole (Live from Lollapalooza 1991) ACDC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching (Live) - The Central Park Concert Jane’s Addiction - Stop! (Live) - Live In NYC Crash Worship - The Abyss (Live) Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction - Don’t Touch My Guitar Depeche Mode - Rush (Live) Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Balloon Man Pink Floyd - In The Flesh? - Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live Pixies - Trompe Le Monde (Live 1991) Oingo Boingo - Who Do You Want To Be? (Live) R.E.M. - Orange Crush (Live) Ben Folds Five - Song For The Dumped (Live) Naked Lunchbox - Freedom Child ABBA Thank You For the Music (Live)
Nothing wastes your time and money quite like a movie based on a video game. Even if by some miracle one manages to kinda- sorta get it right, the overall experience is still uniquely disappointing - even downright pointless. It’s a bit like watching your friends play video games all night because they are hogging the controller, but you are too lazy to find new friends. We talk the highs and lows of the oddball film sub-genre that refuses to die, even though it has repeatedly given us every reason to believe it should.
0:00 Intros 6:00 Downsizing 10:11 Mission Impossible Fallout 16:09 Extinction (Netflix) 20:50 Adam Ant 27:40 Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast 29:10 Tokyo Drifter 31:28 Video Game movies 34:10 Super Mario Bros. The Movie 38:25 Double Dragon 40:43 Mortal Kombat 47:30 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) 53:25 Uwe Boll 58:46 Game mechanics in movies 1:02:23 Warcraft 1:04:00 Assassin’s Creed 1:04:33 Resident Evil 1:08:30 Street Fighter The Movie 1:14:07 Hitman 1:17:19 D.O.A. Dead or Alive 1:20:35 closing thoughts
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl The Immortals - Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Rolfe Kent - The Tiny City Beckons / Estate Sale - Downsizing (Music from the motion picture) Liberty Medical - Wilford Brimley on Diabetes Lorne Balfe - Mission: Accomplished - Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Music from the motion picture) Limp Bizkit - Take A Look Around (Mission: Impossible 2) Pharsalus - Side-And-Chain (Extinction original soundtrack) Glam Skanks - Bad Bitch Adam Ant - Live banter in Cleveland 2018 Tokyo Drifter (trailer) Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Wendy Carlos - Tron Scherzo - Tron (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Bobby Albert - Super Mario Bros. Main Title Fatboy Slim - Illuminati (featuring Bootsy Collins) - Tomb Raider Ramin Djawadi - Warcraft (Original motion picture soundtrack) Flyleaf - I’m So Sick (T-Virus Remix) - Resident Evil: Extinction Original motion picture soundtrack Henry Jackman - Arcaders ‘82 - Pixels original motion picture soundtrack
Welcome to our discussion of every single car we here at MagHuge have ever owned - and subsequently drove into the dirt through a unique combination of stunning ignorance & sheer force of will. While listening, you will become acutely aware of how very little we actually know about automobile maintenance or car culture in general. It’s just like an episode of #TopGear, only funny.
0:00 Intros 3:20 Roger Waters 10:01 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 12:45 Sorry To Bother You 18:04 GLOW 21:49 Barry 24:36 Jesus Jones - Passages 27:25 Information Society’s new music 29:58 Skyscraper 34:50 Our first cars 40:00 cars we’ve gone through 58:15 embarrassing stories 1:03:00 spectacular car deaths 1:11:19 driver-less cars
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Gary Numan - Cars Laurie Anderson - Smoke Rings (Live) Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Roger Waters - What God Wants, Pt. I Roger Waters Tour Promo Roger Waters - 5:01 AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Pt. 10) Pink Floyd - See Emily Play James Newton Howard - Main Titles - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them The Coup - Oyahytt (feat. Lakeith Stanfield) from Sorry To Bother You: The Soundtrack Starship - Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now Jesus Jones - Suck It Up Jesus Jones - Stripped Information Society - Dominion Information Society - Nothing Prevails Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Trailer for “The Car” (1977) Pebbles - Mercedes Boy
This round we’re talking all about cell phone technology - Apple iPhones, Google Androids, plus a little bit of BlackBerry (mostly because Eric’s a luddite who still thinks those are awesome and we try to set him straight).
If you had said 20 years ago that we would all eventually carry a device in our pockets that let governments and corporations track everything we say, every place we go, and pay several hundreds of dollars for the privilege, no one would believe you. But thanks to streaming movies, Wikipedia knowledge, and oodles of pornography, that’s where we are!
The #MagHuge crew finally gets around to reviewing Pixar’s latest cash cow - Incredibles 2! This is a spoiler filled minisode about both Incredibles movies literally 14 years in the making - because it took Pixar literally 14 years to make the damn sequel! Hear us dish on how Incredibles 2 compares to the original movie, which also just happens to be our favorite Pixar flick and one of the greatest superhero movies ever made. Did it succeed? Find out! And as always - NO CAPES!
Soylent Podcast is made of people! It’s our supersized look at fast food, America’s culinary gift to the world… Accompanied by a side of deep-fried regret full of empty calories and washed down with an ice-cold cup of sugary self-loathing. But who cares, so long as you can put more bacon on it?
0:00 Intros 7:40 School of Rock (broadway musical) 11:00 Joywave - Content 13:40 Son of Zorn 17:29 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 22:40 The Supreme Court 25:50 Westworld 27:00 The Venture Bros. 30:45 Listener Mail !?!? 33:45 Fast food vs fast casual dining 37:40 Pizza 42:11 The Big Ones 44:30 Regional fast food joints 51:08 Fish places 53:45 Chicken 55:00 Working together at Dairy Queen 59:42 What was the worst fast food job you’ve had? 1:03:35 Russian Pizza 1:05:13 Grossest fast food menu items 1:09:41 Places that try to do one thing really well 1:11:12 Barbeque 1:13:36 Special limited time menu items 1:18:50 Fictional fast food joints 1:21:34 Our favorite fast food joints
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Charley Pride - Burgers and Fries Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat The Original Broadway Cast of School Of Rock - You’re In The Band Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen Big Data - Dangerous (feat. Joywave) Joywave - Content Joywave - Shutdown Son of Zorn - s1e1: Return To Orange County Michael Giacchino - This Title Makes Me Jurassic - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Ramin Djawadi - Main Title Theme: Westworld Clip from Blue’s Clues (mail time) Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack and Diane Mel Tillis Whataburger commercial Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go (karaoke) Meat Loaf - I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) Commercial for “The Most American Thickburger” Commercial for the “Angry Whopper” 70s Taco Bell commercial Clip from Hollywood Shuffle Clip from Tapeheads Wendy’s commercial with Dave Thomas Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper remix)
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
Schadenfreude is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from the troubles, failures, or humiliation of others.
And if you think you're above it, why don't you tell me how you REALLY think Johnny Depp is going to make a comeback.
This week we dig deep into the failures in movies, music, politics, inventions... and anything else we can think of that sucked great big donkey balls, bringing shame and humiliation onto the heads of those responsible.
We do also talk about some great things, though, like the new documentary on Fred Rogers, "Won't You Be My Neighbor," the Martin Short/Steve Martin Netflix special, "An Evening to Forget for the Rest of your Life," Season 2 of Westworld, and anything else we saw this week for our weekly Fresh Shit.
It’s the MagHuge Podcast Double Feature Show! We put on our tin-foil film programmer hats to create our own movie double features that we would totally make happen if we ran the world - or at least our own movie house. And they would be shown in an actual theater, too, because we’re cinema purists who believe that watching two random movies in a row on Netflix from your couch doesn’t count as a double feature. That’s just called one more Saturday night eating ice cream with a fork because you have chosen to give up. Which we here at MagHuge know nothing about...obviously. So, um, yeah… Double Features! How cool are those!?! 0:00 Intros 5:51 Double Features - the basics 6:39 Grindhouse 8:11 They don’t do many double features these days 10:00 Origins of the double feature 11:30 The University Dollar Theater and the movies we saw there 15:20 Movie pairings 27:13 The Fresh Shit 27:25 Upgrade 29:40 The Humans 30:44 The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 31:30 Yoku’s Island Express 32:45 Star Trek: Discovery 40:55 Stanley Cup Finals 43:15 Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice 48:08 Movie Title Mashups 50:18 Our recommended double features!
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Richard O’Brien - Science Fiction Double Feature John Travolta - Greased Lightnin’ Grindhouse Trailer Staind - It’s Been A While Mel Brooks - High Anxiety James Baskett - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Upgrade Trailer The Gregory Brothers - Unbreakable Jesse Harlin - Yoku Taidua And The Village - from Yoku’s Island Express Jeff Russo - Star Trek: Discovery theme Vegas Golden Knights Intro Hans Zimmer - Fight Night - Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice Soundtrack Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra Ennio Morricone - The Untouchables Opening Titles Laurie Anderson - Smoke Rings DJ Mike Relm - O Face (from the Webby Awards) Diana Ross and Michael Jackson - Ease On Down The Road (The Wiz - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Dominic Frontiere - The Stunt Man (Main Title) Negativland - The Answer Is
It's our tribute to the unusually large number of stone-cold classics released in the glorious year of 1989 A.D. That's a lot of iconic movies in one place - from Tim Burton's Batman to Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, and everything in between. Plus, huge cult faves like Heathers and Vampire's Kiss. It was a banner 12 months for discerning cineastes everywhere, and that even includes more dubious entries like Weekend At Bernie's, Earth Girls Are Easy and Young Einstein. Well, okay, maybe not Weekend At Bernie's…
00:00 Intros 04:14 Top box office of 1989 10:45 Lesser Summer movies 12:30 Earth Girls are Easy 17:30 D-Day (2008) 20:43 Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made 25:00 Solo: A Star Wars Story 35:40 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 43:00 Lethal Weapon 2 44:35 The Abyss 48:12 Henry V 48:26 Young Einstein 49:07 Also rans 49:49 License to Kill 51:05 More speed round 53:45 Batman 58:40 Even more speed round 1:02:24 A good year for actors 1:05:05 Which 1989 film had the most impact on you?
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Tina Turner - The Best (Edit) Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Maurice Jarre - Lawrence of Arabia - Overture Julie Brown - ‘Cause I’m a Blonde Julie Brown - Earth Girls are Easy Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam John Powell - L3 & Millennium Falcon - Solo: A Star Wars Story Motion Picture Soundtrack Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh John Williams - Finale & End Credits - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Motion Picture Soundtrack Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Alan Silvestri - The Abyss - Main title (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Young Einstein Trailer Gladys Knight - License to Kill Alan Menken - Part of Your World - The Little Mermaid Danny Elfman - The Batman Theme - Batman Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Prince - Batdance Martin Short in The Big Picture Nicolas Cage in Vampire’s Kiss David Newman - Strip Croquet - Heathers Original Soundtrack Destination Wedding Trailer Bobby Brown - On Our Own
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
You've had plenty of time by now to watch Avengers: Infinity War make over $1-billion... So just like Thanos dropped The Hulk within the first 10 minutes of this magnum opus, we drop our ultimate spoiler-filled show about the most epic Marvel superhero team-up to end all epic Marvel superhero team-ups... Until the next even-more-ridiculously-epic Marvel superhero team-up.
Enjoy a spotify playlist of songs from this episode here: https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/3m4nCSuleK8OFYHCn9Idtp?si=Y8nmX5iTQWWAkk_1JfEF9w
0:00 - Intros 4:54 - Santa Clarita Diet 7:22 - Dead 90s singers 9:50 - The impending 90s revival 12:33 - Iron Chef Gauntlet and Project Runway All-Stars 14:14 - NHL Playoffs 15:30 - Knight Rider S2E1 “Goliath” 17:33 - Avengers Infinity War
Clips: Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl The Spinners - Rubber Band Man Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (featuring Chester Bennington) Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’ (featuring Arnel Pineda) Alice In Chains - The One You Know (featuring William DuVall) Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart 4 Non Blondes - What’s Up? Clip from Iron Chef America Stompin Tom Connors - The Hockey Song Stu Phillips - Knight Rider theme Star Trek: The Next Generation S3E26 “The Best Of Both Worlds” Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)
Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars…again. Our very first MagHuge Podcast was May 4, 2017, which officially makes this episode the Magnificently Huge First Anniversary Show! To celebrate this auspicious occasion we do the unexpected and gab about yet another Star Wars Day - this year by mocking the Prequel movies that mean so little to so few. Plus, we find the true meaning of Life Day! May the farce be with you.
A special shout-out to Auralnauts, whose amazing Star Wars comedy can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp1xCZ4ODNM2OJuKoBrghDA
0:00 Intros 6:15 Episode I: The Phantom Menace 17:15 The Star Wars Holiday Special 21:22 Is Jake Lloyd worse than Jar Jar? 23:50 Episode II: Attack of the Clones 29:28 Machete order 33:00 The Fresh Shit 33:41 Eric continues down the Floyd hole 38:18 The Gumball Rally 41:29 Avengers: Infinity War 43:41 Hayden Christensen 48:50 Ian McDiarmid and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 52:35 A lot happens in the 30 years between III and IV or maybe their recordkeeping tech is lousy 55:44 The Jar Jar Binks Principle 59:30 Trivia!
Clips From: Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Meco - Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band Bill Murray - Star Wars Theme (Saturday Night Live) John Williams - The Little People Work - Star Wars: A New Hope Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Auralnauts - Jedi Party John Williams - Duel of the Fates - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Star Fox The Star Wars Holiday Special Jefferson Starship - Light The Sky On Fire The Beginning - The Making of Episode I Star Wars Epidode II: Attack of the Clones Carl Stalling - Powerhouse “Weird Al” Yankovic - Yoda Pink Floyd - Bike Pink Floyd - One Slip Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly Pink Floyd - A New Machine Part 1 Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away Dominic Frontiere - The Gumball Rally Opening Title Music The Gumball Rally (trailer) Auralnauts - Vader Mask Fail Auralnauts - Kylo Ren Outtakes Revenge of the Jedi (teaser trailer) Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Honest Trailers - Revenge of the Sith Dirty Rotten Scoundrels John Williams - A New Hope and End Credits - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Stoner movies, man. Flicks about Mary Jane. Wacky tobacky cinema. The Devil’s lettuce on film. That’s, like, this week’s dimebag full of fun and the first taste is always free. Alright, alright, alright. Spark up a virtual doobie with the Magnificently Huge Pot-cast and settle in for a crazy ride, because things are gonna get super-weird super-fast. We start with a debate about the staying power of Cheech & Chong and quickly lose track of every weed-centric comedy to come down the pike in the last 40 years. Whether you prefer to boke a smowel or just say no, don’t miss this very important episode of… uhhhhh…. Wait… What were we talking about again?
0:00 Intros 6:40 Pink Floyd - “Animals” 9:06 James Comey - “A Higher Loyalty” 9:51 Purple Rain 14:27 The Killers - “Wonderful Wonderful” 16:40 Trackmania 17:13 God of War (2018) 21:00 What Chris has been watching on HBO 22:08 Atomic Blonde 26:50 Intro to stoner movies 28:24 Euphamisms 32:00 Cheech and Chong 35:37 Tropes 41:53 Supermarket 44:03 Stoned characters don’t necessarily make it a stoner movie 51:02 Chris just starts listing stoner movies 54:50 and then lists not-stoner movies 57:49 Harold and Kumar and Neil Patrick Harris 1:01:26 Stoner music
The Toyes - Smoke Two Joints Danielle Dax - Tomorrow Never Knows Pink Floyd - Sheep Pink Floyd - In The Flesh? Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones) Staind - It’s Been A While Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin’ Prince and the Revolution - When Doves Cry Dez Dickerson - Modernaire Apollonia 6 - Sex Shooter The Time - Jungle Love The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful The Killers - The Man Bear McCreary - God of War (Original Soundtrack) New Order - Blue Monday ‘88 (12” Version) Lunachicks - Spoilt Blondie - Atomic Audio Enabled - Bong Hits With Lighter Meat Beat Manifesto - Pot Sounds Clip from Brass Eye - “Drugs” Clip from Reefer Madness Cheech and Chong - Earache My Eye Cheech and Chong - Dave’s Not Here Toddy Tee Feat. Mix Master Spade and Snoop Dogg - Just Say No Clip from Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle Clip from How High Parternship For A Drug Free America various commercials from 1984 and 1985, 1986 1987 Clip from The Blues Brothers The Uninvited - Too High for the Supermarket Sesame Street - I Can Remember ABC The Bod Squad - Watch Out For The Munchies Clip from Dude, Where’s My Car? The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up Clip from Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle Clip from Cheech and Chong’s Nice Dreams Fannypack - Camel Toe Mickey Avalon - My Dick Afroman - Because I Got High
“Surf 2: The End of the Trilogy” is the greatest movie ever made that also happens to be its own sequel! Join the MagHuge crew as we palaver about this quintessentially forgotten 80’s VHS teen-bikini-surf-punk-zombie comedy classic that also happens to be loaded with gratuitous T&A and a thought-provoking environmental message. No, really. Plus, it has one of the best unreleased 80’s New Wave soundtracks of all time (featuring an exclusive track by Oingo Boingo!) that never made it to stores because the movie was such an impressive failure at the time. You can’t even get this thing on DVD, that’s how amazing it is! Which is why it is our Lost Cinema Pick of the Week.
We did what we could to make a spotify list for this episode. You can hear the results here: https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/0WzBDpGqr14xyU40mXyZFp?si=ht8tpHRXR7-Vhz5CIApGVQ
And here’s that rare Oingo Boingo song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnXtWs-0Qaw
0:00 Intros 3:55 WWII Propaganda Films 6:50 Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi 14:24 The Meg (trailer) 16:48 Rock The Bells 20:24 Our Girl 21:40 The Witness 23:15 Rampage (2018) 29:00 Surf 2: The End Of The Trilogy
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Oingo Boingo - Hold Me Back Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat US Armed Forces commercial Land and Live in the Desert (Army Air Forces) John WIlliams - The Battle of Crait (Star Wars: The Last Jedi Original motion picture soundtrack) John WIlliams - Finale (Star Wars: The Last Jedi Original motion picture soundtrack) The Meg (trailer) Rock The Bells Radio bumper L.L. Cool J. - Mama Said Knock You Out Cypress Hill - Insane in the Membrane Biz Markie - Nobody Beats The Biz N.W.A. - Express Yourself Fat Boys - The Human Beat Box Clip from John Mulaney: New in Town Our Girl - Our Girl Edvard Grieg - Anitra’s Dream (from The Witness) Clips from Rampage (trailer) Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Clips from Surf 2: The End Of The Trilogy Clip from Heathers Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - The Wedge The Untouchables - Dance Beat Annette Funicello and Fishbone - Jamaican Ska Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad
There's more to comic book movies than just your Avengers and Justice League, kiddo. "The Watchmen," "Dredd," the original Christopher Reeve "Superman" - if you like action heroes, there are tons of movies from decades past that get the concept right, even if they didn't have the effects technology yet. This is the ultimate superhero booty call.
This week, the MagHuge crew tackle the subject of the best comic book movies you've never heard of, with a complete lack of preparation that makes this one of our worst shows. Truly. If you're an uber-fan, you'll listen through to the end. But if you're just finding us now, please, listen to any one of our other shows. You'll be doing us both a favor.
Check out a playlist of music from this episode on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/43OFN25zprQeG9Gy4N0ZEv?si=Ccsa1IDPQ8m1KvZF_7YLcg
0:00 Intros 5:15 Racism 8:09 Skankin’ Pickle 12:45 The Titan 14:05 Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle 16:50 Isle Of Dogs 19:30 Engineering disasters 23:48 Intro to this week’s topic 24:38 Dredd (2012) 26:09 Trainspotting (1996) 28:45 Captain America 31:00 Watchmen (2009) 32:28 V For Vendetta (2005) 33:30 X-Men (2000) 34:00 Iron Man (2008) 35:29 Wesley Snipes 36:20 Actors who get to be more than one superhero 37:56 Forgotten 80s superhero movies 38:45 The Rocketeer (1991) 40:24 Batman Forever (1995) 48:00 The Incredibles (2004)
Clips Mervyn Warren - Steel (Theme) (original motion picture soundtrack) The Specials - Racist Friend Mike Epps pitches “That’s Racist” / “That’s Racist” kid Skankin’ Pickle - It’s Margaret Cho They Might Be Giants - Your Racist Friend Clip from Rick and Morty Skankin’ Pickle - Onyonghashayo Ice Cube - Black Korea Skankin’ Pickle - Ice Cube, Korea Wants A Word With You Skankin’ Pickle - Racist World Grant Kirkhope - Two Worlds Collide (Theme from Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle) Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit Alexandre Desplay - Shinto Shrine (Isle of Dogs original motion picture soundtrack) Clip from The Towering Inferno (1974) Bob Seger - Her Strut Clip from Trainspotting (1996) Boots Randolph - Yakety Sax Captain America (1990) trailer Captain America (1979) trailer Tyler Bates - Rescue Mission - Watchmen (Original Motion Picture Score) Condorman (1981) - opening titles Elton John - Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going To Be A Long, Long Time) U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me Seal - Kiss From A Rose Clip from Batman Forever (1995) Michael Giacchino - The Incredits (The Incredibles music from the motion picture)
Every day after school we had the greatest babysitter the world has ever known - Television. Spending time outside with “friends” was for suckers. Instead, we ate our body weight in junk food and consumed ALL the cartoons, reruns and MTV that the glorious idiot box would provide. Then our parents showed up and forced us to do rubbish like eat our vegetables and finish our homework until we became sullen teenagers and, eventually, stunted adults. And the moral of the story is that TV rots your brain, kids. This podcast is living proof.
0:00 Intros 4:55 Jessica Jones 5:18 Santa Clarita Diet 6:58 Silicon Valley 7:25 The Director and the Jedi (from Star Wars: The Last Jedi) 10:00 Get Out 12:50 Ready Player One 20:07 Henry Rollins spoken word 21:35 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 24:35 The Bad Batch 27:47 Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff 32:40 GenX After School Special intro 34:00 Latchkey kids vs modern parenting 36:20 Internet in your pocket 37:23 Go outside and do stuff 41:19 Video games and basements 44:20 After school snack routines 52:58 UHF reruns and cartoons 56:46 Chris sings the theme to Hogan’s Heroes 58:40 KCTV movie theme weeks 59:36 Cartoons 1:08:09 MTV 1:09:27 Nickelodeon 1:12:00 Showtime 1:12:30 PBS 1:12:35 Eric sings the theme to Reading Rainbow 1:13:46 Chris and Brian sing the theme to Villa Alegre 1:16:30 Uncle Ed Muscare (“Edmus Scarey”) from KC to PHX 1:20:09 After School Specials
Clips Theme to Jonny Quest Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Sean Callery - Jessica Jones - Opening credits music Silicon Valley title sequence Michael Abels - Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga (Main Title) - Get Out (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Alan Silvestri - Ready Player One - End Credits Rachel Bloom - Heavy Boobs (from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) Black Light Smoke - Screws In My Head (from The Bad Batch) Clip from V For Vendetta Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Chuck Berry - My Ding-A-Ling (Live) Powerball (Sega Genesis game) Theme to Gilligan’s Island Theme to Hogan’s Heroes Theme to Battle of the Planets Theme to the Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (from The Jetsons) Clip from Scooby Doo Clip from That Mitchell and Webb Look I want my MTV promo Theme to You Can’t Do That On Television Alanis Morissette - Ironic Theme to Reading Rainbow Theme to Villa Alegre Theme from Zoom Theme from 3-2-1 Contact Theme from The Bloodhound Gang Clip from Edmus Scarey
STOP DON’T USE THIS The week the @MagHuge crew is splitting up the format. This episode is just the part where we talk about the movies, music, TV, games and books we’ve been into for the last week. We’ll be discussing everything from Ready Player One, to Henry Rollins, to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Sean Penn’s debut novel!
ALTERNATE: Minisode 4 - The Fresh S#!% from Episode 45 The @MagHuge crew talked way too much Fresh S#!% in Episode 45, so we decided to give it a minisode all its own. This is just the part where we talk general nonsense about all the media and more we’ve enjoyed over the last week. This round we palaver about the new Ready Player One flick and a Henry Rollins live show. Plus, we saw Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on stage and heard about Sean Penn’s baffling debut novel!
Follow the MagHuge podcast to get the rest of this week’s Episode 45 content, when we discuss after school time as unsupervised GenX kiddos who rotted our brains with way too much T.V.
We get our 90s on to remember a time when superhero flicks were rare and even good CGI effects looked like frisbees on strings. Hear about all the junk culture of the decade that would lay the foundation for every big, dumb movie spectacle we get saddled with now in the 21st Century. Yes, the 90s were plain awful. And awfully necessary.
Check out a playlist of the songs in this episode here: https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/0LhSmoieLI8OZwAQPRJCPi?si=p6FR3onHTW-aE7ZY3dRZqg
0:00 Intros 4:20 Jessica Jones 5:27 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 7:17 The Breeders - All Nerve 9:20 90s female alt-rock 12:35 Fight Club 18:15 El Barco 21:15 The Spy Who Dumped Me 22:25 Cobra Kai 24:49 Thor Ragnarok Blu-Ray commentary 26:28 The King and I 31:05 Pacific Rim Uprising 35:45 Late 90’s action movie intro 37:00 Judge Dredd 48:22 Spawn 59:45 Independence Day
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl The Crystal Method & Filter - Can’t You Trip Like I Do Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Sean Callery - Jessica Jones - Opening credits music Clip from Ren & Stimpy - “Don’t Whizz On The Electric Fence” Alexandre Desplat - Bus Attack (from Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) The Breeders - Nervous Mary The Breeders - MetaGoth Hole - Doll Parts Elastica - Connection Garbage - Push It Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time Naufragos - (El Barco soundtrack) Waylon Jennings - Good Ol’ Boys (from The Dukes of Hazzard) The Spy Who Dumped Me (Trailer) Cobra Kai (Trailer) Yul Brynner anti-smoking commercial Ted Sperling & Orchestra - Overture - The King and I (2015 Broadway Cast Recording) Jerry Goldsmith - Anna and the King (TV Suite) Lorne Balfe - Victory - Pacific Rim Uprising (Motion Picture Soundtrack) MC Frontalot - I’ll Form The Head The Cure - Dredd Song Clips from Judge Dredd (1995) Orbital & Kirk Hammett - Satan Clips from Spawn (1997) Nicholas Dodd - Fire Storm - Independence Day (Motion Picture Soundtrack) Aerosmith - I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing
This week, the movies and music with hidden meanings, agendas, or that were just poorly thought out. (Like rooting for rapists - even if they are nerds.) But first, as ever, Brian, Chris, and Eric dish the Fresh S**t. It’s all the movies, TV shows, music and games of the week that were discussed but that I cannot remember because it was recorded days ago and I’m getting so, so sleepy now. I think I’ll just take a little nap…
Check out a playlist of the music from this episode here: https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/0qUGtQsOcAWzLsoZgtxynn
0:00 Intros 5:00 Future Man 8:50 Tomb Raider 13:35 Jessica Jones 16:10 Run The Jewels - Oh Mama 18:40 Crackdown 20:00 Mad Dog Time 23:38 Invasion of the Bee Girls 25:15 Intro to main topic of the week 25:40 Pretty Woman 27:25 Time Bandits 29:05 Natural Born Killers 29:45 Say Anything 31:10 Revenge of the Nerds 32:40 300 34:45 The Parent Trap 39:30 Every Breath You Take 40:15 Born in the U.S.A. 41:45 Pumped Up Kicks 43:00 Mamma Mia 44:05 Good Riddance 45:25 The Smiths 48:10 You’re Beautiful 50:00 It’s My Party 51:10 Willy Wonka 52:30 Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind 55:25 Fight Club 57:05 2012
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Tim Cavanaugh - I Wanna Kiss Her Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Clip from Future Man S1E10: Natal Attraction Halli Cauthery - Future Man - End credits music 2WEI - Survivor (from Tomb Raider) Clip from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Michelle Pfeiffer - Cool Rider (from Grease 2) Sean Callery - Jessica Jones - Opening credits music Run the Jewels - Oh Mama Rick and Morty Season 4 Trailer The Kids in the Hall - Captain Wonderful MGM HD promo for Mad Dog Time Invasion of the Bee Girls trailer Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Clip from Time Bandits Clip from Say Anything Hayley Mills - Let’s Get Together (from The Parent Trap) Theme to The Patty Duke Show 38 Special - Caught Up In You The Police - Every Breath You Take Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks “Weird Al” Yankovic - NOW That’s What I Call Polka! ABBA - Mamma Mia Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Harry Nilsson - You’re Breakin’ My Heart The Smiths - Sheila Take A Bow The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again James Blunt - You’re Beautiful John Mayer - Your Body is a Wonderland Lesley Gore - It’s My Party Clip from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
We saw the new smash hit action extravaganza “The Hurricane Heist” so you don’t have to! Here’s our takeaway: If your entire plan to steal $600-million from a federal vault hinges on waiting for the Storm of the Century to randomly appear, you may be the worst criminal mastermind ever. This movie is so bonkers it teeters into our early pick for The Best Worst Movie of 2018! Somehow, we also came up with a spotify playlist for this episode, so listen if you dare! https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/6DlTEEn62HRn7OstAkdIJN
0:00 Intros 4:08 The Hurricane Heist Trailer 6:45 Bayonetta 2 vs Bloodborne vs Ratchet & Clank 11:00 Foo Fighters Jump cover 12:08 Old Farts Against the 90s Revival 13:25 Future Man 17:05 Crackdown 19:25 Bates Motel 21:00 The Walking Dead 22:06 Logan Lucky 24:00 Larceny, Inc. 25:30 A Hurricane is coming! 30:30 Describe The Hurricane Heist 37:50 Movies this one is ripping off 40:25 Who is the worst actor in this movie? 46:30 The heroes kill more than the bad guys 51:10 Idiot plot moments and peanut butter 1:01:00 Is this pandering to red state audiences? 1:04:54 Improving the soundtrack
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane The Hurricane Heist Trailer Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Keeley Bumford, Betsie Larkin and Hiroshi Yamaguchi - Tomorrow Is Mine (Bayonetta 2 Theme) Ryan Amon - Main Theme (Bloodborne) Clip from Ratchet & Clank Playstation commercial Foo Fighters - Jump TLC - Hat 2 Da Back Stephanie Miller Show - Screaming Baby Airlines DJ Krush - Paradise Bird Theory (Crackdown Main Menu Music) With Lions - Down We Go (Logan Lucky OST) Lord David Sutch - Flashing Lights Clip from Joe vs The Volcano Clip from The Italian Job Clip from Lethal Weapon 2 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me The Breeze 38 Special - Caught Up In You Limp Bizkit - Rollin’ Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun Nirvana - Milk It Linkin Park - Easier To Run Slayer - Raining Blood Garth Brooks - The Thunder Rolls Buckwheat Boyz - Peanut Butter Jelly Time
As a kid, did you ever watch a movie that touched your heart and moved your very soul? Did you ever watch that movie again as an adult? How did that work out for you? This week the @MagHuge crew talks about which movies and shows stood the test of time, plus the ones that most certainly did not. Check out a playlist of the music from this episode at https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/playlist/0AUYGbFAjHw6FHdVDTiaME
0:00 Intros 3:30 Planet Money 5:45 The Dandy Warhols 10:45 Radiolab 12:02 Bates Motel 13:50 The Fall Guy 15:30 “Weird Al” Yankovic 17:12 The Dr. Demento Show 18:32 You Are Not So Smart Podcast 19:25 I <3 You, America 21:47 Hate Thy Neighbor 22:30 The Last Man On Earth 24:35 Annihilation 29:10 Things from the past that resonated (intro) 33:40 Chasing Amy / Clerks 38:05 Rudy 39:55 Benny Hill 41:00 Dead Poets Society 43:20 Pump Up The Volume 43:45 The Breakfast Club / John Hughes 48:40 David Lynch 51:34 Say Anything 54:17 High Fidelity 56:00 Examples that actually do hold up 57:09 Lawrence of Arabia 59:00 Freaks and Geeks 1:00:30 Peep Show 1:02:25 Braveheart 1:03:30 Stories that define a generation, and hatred for Baby Boomers 1:04:40 Comedy has a generational shelf life 1:06:30 Music that hasn’t held up
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat The Dandy Warhols - Pope Reverend Jim (Casale Remix) The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get Lee Majors - The Unknown Stuntman (Theme from The Fall Guy) Lou Rawls - You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine “Weird Al” Yankovic - The Hamilton Polka Clip from “I Love You America” S1E1 Dan Patrick political Ad Mark Mothersbaugh - The Last Man On Earth (Theme) Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Annihilation - Annihilation (Music from the motion picture) Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh “Weird Al” Yankovic - Everything You Know Is Wrong Dave Pirner - Tube of Wonderful (Chasing Amy Theme) Boots Randolph - Yakety Sax Maurice Jarre & Peter Weir - Carpe Diem (Dead Poets Society) Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes Maurice Jarre - Overture - Lawrence of Arabia (Soundtrack) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Bad Reputation “Numberwang” from That Mitchell and Webb Look Genesis - Mama Def Leppard - Women Van Halen - Hot For Teacher Simple Minds - Don’t You (Forget About Me)
The TV spinoff. For every “Maude” or “Frasier” there are dozens more like “Joey” or “After MAS*H.” Are spinoffs just a creatively-bankrupt way to extend a familiar brand? Or, do they actually improve upon the best qualities of their original to create something unique? We may not always get the spinoff we want, but sometimes we get the spinoff we deserve.
0:00 Intros 3:12 Supertrain 6:55 Mute 8:55 Black Panther 19:43 Creed 23:40 Game Night 25:25 Blockers (trailer) 28:00 Spinoff Introductions 29:18 The first spinoff character 31:46 The Honeymooners 32:43 Swearing 33:40 How do you define a spinoff? 36:51 Sidequels, NCIS, Law & Order, etc 38:33 Shows talking about other shows (The Talking Dead) 39:17 Beloved character spinoffs 41:28 Back door pilots 48:30 Unintentional pilots 50:40 Variety shows that spawn series 51:40 Spinoffs of spinoffs 55:40 Different Strokes 58:30 Spinoffs that are better than the original show 1:01:27 Spinoffs of soap operas 1:04:25 Would you consider these to be spinoffs? 1:08:00 This podcast is itself a spinoff 1:08:50 Spinoffs we want to see made
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Blur - Coffee & TV Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Bob Cobert - Supertrain theme Twelve Titans Music - Pilgrimage" from "Mute" Official Trailer Kendrick Lamar, SZA - All The Stars (from “Black Panther”) Ludwig Göransson - Killmonger (from “Black Panther”) Ludwig Göransson - Wakanda (from “Black Panther”) Future - Last Breath (from “Creed”) Clip from The Princess Bride Blockers Trailer John Cena - Where Is My Mind Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh God I Hate Shakespeare - Something Rotten (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Clip from Fibber McGee and Molly Clip from The Honeymooners Theme to Mayberry R.F.D. Theme to 704 Hauser Theme to The Golden Girls (Thank You For Being A Friend) Clip from Star Trek S2:E26, “Assignment: Earth” Clip from The Brady Bunch S5:E14 “The Kelly Kids” Theme to The Greatest American Hero Theme to The Bionic Woman Theme to Enos Gloria Loring - The Facts Of Life (theme) Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek: The Next Generation (theme) John Sebastian - “Welcome Back” (Theme to Welcome Back Kotter) Mase - Welcome Back
And the winner is….No one. It’s our 72nd Annual Oscars Show! Come for the pageantry and wonder of Hollywood elitism at its most insular…Stay for our aggressive indifference to the de facto yearly celebration of (predominantly white, American, and male-dominated) cinema that will be wholly forgotten come next year’s new batch of zeitgeist hopefuls.
0:00 Intros 5:50 Saturn 3 10:21 Everything Sucks 11:00 Dead and Lovely 12:23 Hockey: San Jose Sharks vs. Vegas Golden Knights 14:35 Spaced 16:45 Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge 18:33 Peter Rabbit 23:00 Mon Oncle 25:35 Towing Jehovah 28:30 Oscar talk intro 29:20 Why do we have Academy Awards? 32:05 Prestige vs commerce 33:40 Shakespeare in Love vs 4 good movies 36:31 Who decides? 38:00 What were they thinking? 39:10 Red carpet fashion 41:20 What years were you most invested in the Oscars? 42:15 Categories 45:05 The Academy Honorary Award curse 46:50 The most popular corpse award 49:30 Dances With Wolves vs Goodfellas 51:30 Scorsese snubs 52:30 More snubs 59:44 Weird Oscar moments 1:02:36 2017 Best Picture Nominees 1:04:50 Trivia
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Stompin’ Tom Connors - The Hockey Song Clip from Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Elmer Bernstein - Space Murder (Saturn 3) Clip from Pulp Fiction Galaxina trailer Clips from Rick and Morty - Lawnmower Dog Wendy Carlos - "Title Music from A Clockwork Orange" (From Henry Purcell's Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary) Len - Steal My Sunshine Mon oncle (from Mon oncle) Metallica - Better Than You Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Roberto Benigni - 1999 Best Actor acceptance speech Joan Rivers on the red carpet Blame Canada - South Park Bigger, Longer, and Uncut Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It’s True Clip from Batman (1989) John Barry - Dances With Wolves - Main Title Terrence Howard - It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp (Hustle & Flow) A Whole New World - Aladdin Clip from 2017 Academy Awards ceremony Clip from 1974 Oscar ceremony Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life Jeopardy think music Clip from Quiz Show Looney Tunes theme Ethel Merman - There’s No Business Like Show Business
Suppose you were put in an arbitrary and unrealistically restrictive situation and were forced to whittle your music collection down to 10 albums. Suppose you still think of music as coming packaged as “albums”. Suppose you still consider albums to be things that come on "discs". Suppose that you had a way to play those discs on a desert island. Okay, it’s a stupid hypothetical, but this week the MagHuge crew is talking about the music we just couldn’t live without, so come along for the ride!
We’ve made playlists of the songs in this episode. You can find them here. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/quebedox/playlist/7xRL6f7LZBt2kv2GB6KhWz Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/magnificently-huge-desert-island-discs/pl.u-oRBZFR0ZPlz
0:00 Intros 3:00 “Listener” emails 5:00 Godzilla: Monster Planet 5:52 Altered Carbon 7:40 Happy! 10:35 Travel Man 12:43 The Goldbergs: 1990 something 15:42 The Good Place 16:50 AWOLNATION Here Come The Runts 19:00 People keep talking in the theater, people who use screens with no headphones in public 22:20 Hamilton 31:12 Desert Island Disc introduction 34:20 Eric’s bottom five (sort of) 38:30 Chris’s bottom five 44:21 Brian’s bottom five 54:00 Our Number 5 albums 1:02:02 Our Number 4 albums 1:09:35 Our Number 3 albums 1:18:17 Our Number 2 albums 1:25:17 Our Number 1 albums!
Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Pink Floyd - Marooned Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat Godzilla: Monster Planet Altered Carbon - Main Title Theme Stinky Wizzleteats - Happy Happy Joy Joy The Morning Blend - Tim Meadows interview AWOLNATION - Sail AWOLNATION - Miracle Man Lin Manuel Miranda & Cast - My Shot - Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording Original Broadway Cast - Non Stop - Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording Leslie Odom, Jr. & Cast - Wait For It - Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Negativland - Stress in Marriage Negativland - The Playboy Channel Gnarls Barkley - Crazy Pink Floyd - Time Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf Mix) Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone Blondie - Heart of Glass New Order - Fine Time GoGos - We Got The Beat GoGos - Skidmarks On My Heart GoGos - Head Over Heels Journey - Don’t Stop Belivin’ Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes Love and Rockets! - If There’s A Heaven Above Love and Rockets! - Haunted When The Minutes Drag Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces Ben Folds Five - The Ballad Of Who Could Care Less Ben Folds Five - Song For The Dumped bt - Suddenly Zero 7 - Simple Things Zero 7 - Distractions Steely Dan - Aja XTC - Grass XTC - 1000 Umbrellas XTC - Dear God Pink Floyd - What Do You Want From Me? Pink Floyd - Keep Talking Pink Floyd - High Hopes Black Sabbath - Paranoid Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots The Kinks - Muswell Hillbilly The Kinks - 20th Century Man The Kinks - Complicated Life Scratching The Itch - Why Bother? Scratching The Itch - Let Me Leave This All Behind Pixies - Debaser Pixies - No. 13 Baby Pixies - Gouge Away String Quartet - Here Comes Your Man Damned - Neat Neat Neat Damned - New Rose Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Lie Nine Inch Nails - Get Down Make Love Dr. Demento - “Number 3” bumper David Bowie - Watch That Man David Bowie - Cracked Actor David Bowie - Aladdin Sane Miles Davis - So What Poe - Haunted Poe - Walk The Walk Poe - Amazed Dr. Demento - “Number 1” bumper Pink Floyd - Eclipse Minor Threat - Out of Step Minor Threat - Think Again Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun Violent Femmes - Kiss Off Violent Femmes - Add It Up Michael Jackson - Dangerous Depeche Mode - Black Celebration Depeche Mode - Stripped Depeche Mode - World Full Of Nothing Depeche Mode - But Not Tonight Dead Milkmen - Instant Club Hit (You’ll Dance to Anything)
This show was recorded on Super Bowl Sunday - so rather than record our regularly scheduled program on “Why Sylvester Stallone is the hero to the stupid” or “Our favorite romcom penis jokes,” we had to do a show on sports. Didn’t we? Sure we did! Because as long as we have to know about your teams, and your fight songs, and whoever the hell A-Rod is dating, you’re going to hear our rant too. Baby, remember my name. Fame!
Gophers, golfers and the uneven comedy juggernaut known as “Caddyshack”! It’s Volume 3 of our ongoing series about the movie soundtracks of Mr. Kenny Loggins. We take a mulligan and decide to be the ball as we work through our very complicated feelings for this shambolic mess of undeniable classic comedy gold. Gunga galunga, America! I’m alright…
0:00 Intros 4:30 Book of Mormon 11:45 Black Mirror - Metalhead 12:02 Super Mario Odyssey 12:33 John Debney 13:45 Santa Clarita Diet 16:34 The Clapper 21:03 A Futile And Stupid Gesture 23:16 National Lampoon Radio Hour 25:49 Kenny Loggins 30:48 Pink Floyd does the Caddyshack soundtrack 35:42 Is Caddyshack funny if you’re not high? 37:00 Origins of Caddyshack 40:00 Dangerfield is Trump 41:55 What is Caddyshack even about? 48:00 Bill Murray and Chevy Chase share the screen 51:20 Cindy Morgan’s character makes no sense 52:11 Harold Ramis claims Caddyshack is structured as a Marx Brothers movie 58:10 Funny for 1980? 1:07:30 re-cast the remake 1:15:00 bring it back to Mr. Loggins
Clips Kenny Loggins - I’m Alright Kenny Loggins - Make The Move Spooky Mormon Hell Dream - Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Hasa Diga Eebowai - Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Hello! - Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Jump Up Super Star! - Super Mario Odyssey Santa Clarita Diet S1:E3 “The Farting Sex Tourist” The Travelling Wilburys - Handle With Care Michael O’Donoghue - Ed Sullivan Roast Kenny Loggins - I’m Alright Kenny Loggins - Nobody’s Fool (Theme from Caddyshack 2) Kenny Loggins - Art of the Deal Magnificently Huge Podcast Episode 1: Star Wars Day Pink Floyd - In The Flesh? Kenny Loggins - Playing With The Boys Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On Pink Floyd - Heart Beat, Pig Meat Various scenes from Caddyshack Monty Python - Every Sperm Is Sacred (Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life)
Where were you in 1986? If you’re like most of our listeners, you weren’t even born yet. Goddamn Millennials. But for the rest of us who were there for it, most would all agree that 1986 was most definitely a year.
This week, we’re taking a look back at another watershed moment in pop culture - 1986: When Mav first turned and burned, when Eddie Murphy was the #1 everything, and real nerds listened to They Might Be Giants. (Years before the cool kids would hijack the term “nerd” and make it their own, taking our last shred of dignity. Jerks.)
So sit back and listen to three guys talk about neat stuff. From 1986.
0:00 Intros 4:19 The End of the F**king World 5:27 Heathers (reboot trailer) 6:55 Valley Girl (musical) 7:40 Schitt$ Creek 9:05 Flight of the Phoenix 10:50 Oregon people have to pump their own gas 13:28 “Weird Al” Yankovic - Mandatory Fun 17:00 S-Town 17:20 They Might Be Giants - I Like Fun 19:00 Halt and Catch Fire 19:40 The Good Place 21:40 Cobra 24:50 Short Circuit 26:38 Space Camp 27:50 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Back to School 30:00 Legal Eagles 31:45 Labyrinth 32:30 Running Scared 34:30 Ruthless People 35:12 Psycho III vs The Great Mouse Detective vs About Last Night 35:55 Big Trouble In Little China 38:11 Under The Cherry Moon 38:42 Club Paradise 39:25 Aliens 43:50 Haunted Honeymoon 44:29 Nothing in Common 44:43 Maximum Overdrive 45:44 Pirates 47:27 Howard The Duck 48:37 Transformers: The Movie 48:51 One Crazy Summer 51:30 She’s Gotta Have It 53:12 The Fly 55:54 Stand by Me 57:42 The Manhattan Project 59:04 There were also good movies in 1986
Clips
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer Clip from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat Buzzcocks - Why Can’t I Touch It? Phantogram - Run Run Blood Schitt$ Creek - End Theme “Weird Al” Yankovic - Foil “Weird Al” Yankovic - First World Problems “Weird Al” Yankovic - Word Crimes “Weird Al” Yankovic - NOW That’s What I Call Polka! They Might Be Giants - By the Time You Get This Halt and Catch Fire - Theme Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Clip from Poltergeist 2: The Other Side Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone Clip from Cobra El Debarge - Who’s Johnny Space Camp trailer Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Lost In Emotion Rod Stewart - Love Touch Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom Clip from Running Scared John Carpenter - Pork Chop Express (Main Title) - Big Trouble in Little China Prince and the Revolution - Under the Cherry Moon James Horner - Bishop’s Countdown (Aliens - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Clips from Aliens Sesame Street - One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others Dom DeLuise and Gilda Radner - Ballin’ The Jack Pirates trailer Dolby's Cube featuring Cherry Bomb (lead vocals: Lea Thompson, background vocals: George Clinton, guitar: Joe Walsh) - Howard The Duck Theme Clip from One Crazy Summer The Kids in the Hall - Captain Wonderful Ben E. King - Stand By Me Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time
Everyone talks about President Donald Trump, but nobody does anything about it. That is, until Michael Wolff’s book, “Fire and Fury” came along! This week we talk about “Fire and Fury,” how it may or may not blow the lid off of the most corrupt and criminal presidency in American history, and how it’s just plain hilarious. We also dig into some fresh st, talk about movies music and everything that red-blooded Americans consider entertainment. Except sports. Because, hey - fk sports.
0:00 Intros
4:26 Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
8:09 Baroque!
9:28 The Toys That Made Us
11:02 Akira
13:04 My Next Guest Needs No Introduction: Obama
14:02 Hawaiian missile attack
14:40 Black Mirror series 4
16:24 The End of the F**king World
17:48 The Hitman’s Bodyguard
19:50 The Post
27:55 The Shape of Water
31:26 Eric is watching car chases
32:17 Good Omens
33:00 Fire and Fury
Clips
“Weird Al” Yankovic - Tacky Parliament - We Got The Funk Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat R.E.M. Man on the Moon Geingh Yamashirogumi - Kaneda (Akira Original Soundtrack) Black Mirror opening credits Buzzcocks - Why Can’t I Touch It? Dmitri Golobko - Amsterdam Chase (The Hitman’s Bodyguard Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Meryl Streep - Golden Globes acceptance speech 2017 Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman - I Like To Move It Alexandre Desplat - The Shape of Water (from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Clip from Take Shelter Clip from Groundhog Day Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Clip from The Producers (1968) Monty Python - The Argument Clinic Clip from The Terminator (1984) Clip from The Untouchables (1987) Clips from Back The The Future Part II (1989) Randy Rainbow - Desperate Cheeto
A long time ago, in 3 cities far away from each other…. Minisode III THE LAST JEDI SPOILERS reign. Having decimated 20th Century Fox, Supreme Media Conglomerate Disney now deploys their merciless legions to seize financial control of all genre storytelling. Only Magnificently Huge podcaster Eric Reid shows any RESISTANCE, standing against the rising tyranny, certain that he can just watch this movie on his own time. "But the rest of the MagHuge crew has been exposed. As the 8th, or 9th, or 10th Star Wars begins to leave theaters, the brave heroes finally make a podcast about it.... Clips Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam John WIlliams - Main Title and Escape (Original motion picture soundtrack) John WIlliams - The Last Jedi (Original motion picture soundtrack) John WIlliams - Canto Bight (Original motion picture soundtrack) John WIlliams - Chrome Dome (Original motion picture soundtrack) “I have a bad feeling about this” from Episodes I-VII The “Wilhelm Scream” from Distant Drums (1951) AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) John WIlliams - Finale (Original motion picture soundtrack)
Episode 33 – The Magnificently Huge Guide to Time Travel What do we want? Time Travel! When do we want it? It’s Irrelevant! Yes, an entire episode dedicated to the most irresponsible ways to use a time machine. From DeLoreans to wormholes and everything in between, find out how you can go back in time and erase your entire existence by sneezing on Abraham Lincoln just before he invents the smartphone.
Intros The Fresh S**t Lucha Underground Four Rooms 5:15 Meltdown and Spectre 9:00 Very stable genius 10:35 IT (book) 14:18 Good Omens 14:57 Mindhunter 15:20 Jack Reacher: never go back 18:24 Sword of Shannara 20:26 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 26:10 Time Travel tropes 27:20 H.G. Wells and Mark Twain 28:23 Paradoxes 30:50 Multiple timelines/dimensions, and an obligatory Rick and Morty reference 33:00 Star Trek does a lot of time travel 36:50 Voyagers 41:10 Doctor Who 45:25 Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure 50:26 Terminator 54:56 Back To The Future 1:00:22 12 Monkeys 1:02:10 Looper 1:03:05 Primer 1:04:06 Time Crimes 1:05:10 Freejack 1:05:35 Interstellar 1:06:25 Slaughterhouse Five 1:07:20 A Christmas Carol and It’s A Wonderful Life 1:08:08 Time Bandits 1:10:05 Time After Time 1:10:56 Millennium 1:13:00 The Final Countdown 1:15:22 Hot Tub Time Machine 1:17:05 Somewhere In Time 1:18:17 Peggy Sue Got Married 1:18:41 Austin Powers Clips Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Pink Floyd - Time Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat Killing Joke - Eighties Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Trailer The Sword of Shannara audio book Fleetwood Mac - The Chain Jay and the Americans - Come a Little Bit Closer ELO - Mr. Blue Sky Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Star Trek: Voyager - “Relativity” Voyagers (TV show theme song) Cop Rock - Let’s Be Careful Out There Doctor Who (theme) Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure clips Auralnauts - Terminator Genesys trailer parody Huey Lewis and the News - Back In Time Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love Back to the Future clips Time Bandits clips Europe - The Final Countdown Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
Episode 32 – Reboots Are Reediculous A reboot is just another name for a remake. But not all remakes are reboots. And some reboots are actually sequels. Unless they reimagine a previous remake. Confused? You won’t be after this episode of Magnificently Huge. Well, okay, you probably will be confused like us, because we have no idea what the hell the difference is between a reboot and a remake. All we know for certain is that reboots are ridiculous.
0:00 Intros 5:09 Ash vs Evil Dead 7:50 Travel Man 9:54 Bright 13:04 Black Mirror series 4 14:40 Train to Busan 16:00 Ellen’s Game of Games 16:19 Doctor Who - Twice Upon a Time 17:00 Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi 17:45 The Greatest Showman 21:57 The Shape of Water 24:17 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 26:35 Reboot vs Remake vs Sequel vs Modernization (featuring Batman, James Bond, and Spider-Man) 31:50 Can you reboot a single previous movie? (featuring Fantastic 4 and A Star Is Born) 33:28 Does a reboot imply future movies? (featuring Gus Van Sant’s Psycho and Ghostbusters) 34:22 What justifies a reboot? (featuring Spider-Man again, and Planet of the Apes) 36:00 Is it down to the audience? (featuring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman cartoons, and Ducktales) 37:25 Are there series that are reboot proof? (featuring Harry Potter and The Wizard Of OZ, Star Wars, and The Godfather) 38:53 What if it’s just become dated? (featuring technical difficulties with our phones) 40:00 J.J. Abrams Treks to the Star Wars for the Impossible Mission of rebooting both 45:05 How many different reboots of The Punisher have there been? 47:44 Our favorite reboots (featuring Mad Max and Superman, but not necessarily the way you think) 52:50 TV show reboots (featuring Battlestar Galactica and the sasquatch, among others) 57:59 Platinum Dunes (featuring even more technical difficulties)
Clips
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Approaching Nirvana - Reboot Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat Deep Purple - Space Truckin’ Camila Cabello & Grey - Crown (from Bright: the album) Black Mirror opening In The Loop (Peter Capaldi) The Greatest Show (from The Greatest Showman official soundtrack) Never Enough (from The Greatest Showman official soundtrack) Guns N’ Roses - Welcome to the Jungle Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Beastie Boys - Sabotage The Beach Boys - Do It Again
2017 was a year. And now it is over. Here, then, is our obligatory Year in Review show full of all the cultural nostalgia we could muster for yet another revolution around the sun by Spaceship Earth. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. And so say all of us. Here’s to 2018 being another year!
Introductions 2017 - is it worse than other years? 2017 in movies Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi The Fate of the Furious Logan Despicable Me 3 Cars 3 Thor: Ragnarok Ben Affleck It Spider-Man Homecoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 The Disaster Artist Wonder Woman Beauty and the Beast Disney movies being converted to Broadway and live action Favorite movies of the year Worst movies of the year 2017 in Technology Technology flops Snapchat Spectacles Juicero Digital security breaches of 2017 Self Driving Vehicles Xbox One X Nintendo Switch Blockchain and Bitcoin Net Neutrality Best TV Shows Ozark GLOW Curb Your Enthusiasm Billions Star Trek: Discovery The Good Place Stranger Things Game of Thrones Silicon Valley Mindhunter Twin Peaks: The Return The Straight Story Julee Cruise - Floating into the night The Handmaid's Tale Podcasts The Rachel Maddow Show Pod Save America S-Town Fake The Nation Best of the Left Podcast Kotaku Splitscreen Easy Allies How Did This Get Made? Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People The Infinite Monkey Cage Late Night With Seth Meyers Embedded (NPR)
Clips
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Kenny G - Auld Lang Syne The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis - Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom! The Kids In The Hall - Captain Wonderful The Dead Milkmen - Life is Shit Julee Cruise - Falling Brian Cox - Wonders of the Universe The Smithereens - Only A Memory
Have an idea that you think will blow the doors off of Hollywood? Can you pitch it in 20 words or less? Neither can we!
In this thrilling installment of The Magnificently Huge Podcast, we pitch our ideas for what we think would make great commercial films. Well... maybe "great" is shooting too high. These are our smart-ass ideas of what we think could get made, anyway.
Silly, violent, mindless - hell, we can do that!
We also dig into some Fresh Shit as always, with talk of video games, new movies, and music that doesn't suck. Because it just isn't weird enough yet.
Introductions Walking Simulators, The Game Awards, and a game pitch for Eric Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond Your Name Broadchurch Mac OS High Sierra root bug Sweeny Todd (the band) I’m Now: The Story of Mudhoney Zack Morris Is Trash Olaf’s Frozen Adventure Coco and Book of Life Die Hard on a ______ Eric’s pitch about The Rapture Sleepless in Metropolis Chris’s pitch about a superhero Chris’s post-apocalyptic pitch Eric’s pitch about rednecks who marry Iraqis Brian’s Black Mirror concept Brian tries to pitch something other than a “chosen one” narrative Eric pitches the SJW superhero movie Drug metaphors Roadside Leather Chap Stand
Clips
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat Kiss - Detroit Rock City Radwimps - Sparkle (Movie Version) Olafur Arnalds - Broadchurch theme Sweeny Todd - Roxy Roller Nick Gilder - Hot Child In The City Sweeny Todd - Tantalize Mudhoney - Touch Me, I’m Sick Mudhoney - Run Shithead, Run! Funny or Die: Zack Morris Is Trash Olaf’s Frozen Adventure Un Poco Loco (Coco Soundtrack) Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Christopher Walken - You Say Potato (from Saturday Night Live) Rick and Morty - Show Me What You Got
Should #DieHard and #LethalWeapon be considered #Christmas #movies by sole virtue of their being set at Christmastime? If you answered Yes, then give a listen and find out why you are wrong. Like, REALLY WRONG. So completely wrong it is almost laughable how wrong you are. We empty the coal from our stockings and scorch the Yule log but good this round with our War on Christmas-Adjacent Movies That Have Absolutely Nothing Whatsoever to do With Christmas.
This week the #MagHuge crew is in the Christmas spirit! We talk traditions, toys, holiday films and specials, and other wonderful memories. And also Justice League. Yeah, that.
This is the 2nd half of the recording we made right before Thanksgiving.
0:00 Intro 1:13 Good Omens 2:00 Justice League 9:45 Christmas with divorce (from kid and parent perspectives) 12:12 Santa 15:00 Getting and giving presents 18:10 Gag gifts 19:25 Toys! 19:35 Star Wars toys 25:10 LEGOs 27:00 Hot Wheels 28:45 Adventure people vs model rockets 29:50 Slime 30:27 Stomper 4x4 32:27 Transformers 34:36 Electronics and video games 35:35 Too many gifts and Christmas guilt 37:04 What Christmas is like for us today 38:11 A Christmas story marathon 38:40 Rare Exports 39:50 James Bond marathon 40:10 The Muppet Christmas Carol 40:55 Elf 41:15 Love, Actually 41:58 Baby It’s Cold Outside is creepy 42:50 Christmas Vacation 44:25 How The Grinch Stole Christmas 45:26 Rankin Bass, and also “Raging Rudolph” 47:47 Elmo Saves Christmas
CLIPS
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Billy May - Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat Danny Elfman - Hero’s Theme Danny Elfman - Batman Theme Danny Elfman/John Williams - Superman Theme R.E.M. - Superman Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Kenner Star Wars Early Bird Package Lego Movie Stomper 4x4 commercial Transformers Show theme Merlin toy commercial TBS A Christmas Story marathon commercial Rare Exports commercial Mad TV - Raging Rudolph Snow Miser / Heat Mister Song One Foot In Front Of The Other Carrie Fisher - Life Day Song
Gobble that turkey down, and then hurry over to Magnificently Huge for our Black Friday blowout! Listen today, and get 2 Punishers for the price of one! Don’t miss our door busting discussion of Christmas music! Doors open...NOW!
Here's a link to the Awesome/Bad Christmas playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/quebedox/playlist/4JVVzDtl3AtASAtj99KKKl
0:00 - Introductions 2:50 - The Punisher 4:03 - Hockey Music 6:55 - The Punisher again, and the other Marvel Netflix shows 12:57 - Murder on the Orient Express 14:57 - The Good Place 18:10 - Thanksgiving plans 22:52 - Butter Day 26:16 - Black Friday 32:19 - When should the Christmas decorations go up? 33:20 - Christmas Music!
Clips: Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Rush Coil - O Holy Night Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat Tyler Bates - The Punisher Stompin Tom Connors - The Hockey Song Warren Zevon - Hit Somebody Rick and Morty - True Level Imagine Dragons - Believer Theme from “The Good Place” Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Thousand Foot Krutch - Jingle Bell Rock KJ-52 - It's Christmas Time Joseph Spence - Santa Claus Is Comin to Town Run-DMC - Christmas In Hollis Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You Otis Redding - White Christmas Mannheim Steamroller - Deck The Halls Mannheim Steamroller - Carol of the Bells Woody Phillips - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Sarah McLachlan - The First Noel / Mary Mary Bing Crosby - White Christmas Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time Ringo remembers Christmas 1979 No Doubt - Oi To The World Shonen Knife - Space Christmas The Cocteau Twins - Winter Wonderland The Cocteau Twins - Frosty The Snowman Justin Bieber ft. Busta Rhymes - Drummer Boy
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: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsFUS5eZlrmin7oMd58qv1-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
Not every movie deserves a sequel, but some movies deserve the sequels they get. The MagHuge team drops trou on unnecessary sequels and discovers that very few are worth your time! Plus, hear the lads pitch their own sequel ideas for follow-ups that will never get made. Not in a million years. Sad emoji.
0:00 - Intros 5:00 - Something Rotten! 17:19 - Too Funny To Fail 22:00 - Sequel discussion intro 22:38 - “Road House 2000” 23:52 - Road House: Last Call 24:35 - Howard’s End sequel and prequel ideas 25:15 - E.T.: Nocturnal Fears 26:14 - Tara 27:30 - John Carpenter 28:40 - Ghostbusters 2 29:08 - Pitch for a sequel to Little Shop of Horrors 29:54 - A possible sequel to Honey I Shrunk the Kids 30:20 - Grease 2 32:06 - 300: Rise of an Empire 32:42 - Batman Sequels 33:22 - What would “Fabulous Baker Boys 2” be like? 34:02 - A possible sequel to Boyz In Da Hood 34:20 - Sequels made decades later 35:00 - Movies that are sequel proof 35:29 - Brian’s pitch for a Ferris Bueller sequel 36:33 - Mrs. Doubtfire 2 38:14 - Matthew Broderick’s takes on adult Ferris Bueller 39:40 - A possible sequel to Face Off 40:44 - Weekend at Bernie’s 2 and other sequels that shouldn’t be/have been made 42:03 - Oliver Stone 43:52 - Speed 2: Cruise Control 45:22 - Possible sequels to Fight Club 47:44 - Ghostbusters (2016) 48:53 - Dan Aykroyd 50:05 - The Matrix Sequels 50:37 - We need Buckaroo Banzai vs The World Crime League 51:38 - Possible sequels to Big Trouble In Little China 52:56 - Back to the Future sequels 57:20 - Roger Rabbit 2 58:23 - Christopher Nolan sequels 59:53 - A sequel to Leon: The Professional 1:01:30 - Sequels that “can’t” be made 1:02:42 - What do you consider the best sequel? 1:05:15 - There’s no shortage of sh*t sequels 1:05:44 - Eric’s Schindler’s List sequel pitch
Clips
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Harry Nilsson- One is the Loneliest Number Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat Something Rotten - God, I Hate Shakespeare Kentucky Fried Movie - Count Pointercount Book of Mormon - Spooky Mormon Hell Dream Something Rotten! - A Musical Team America: World Police - Everyone Has AIDS Michigan J. Frog - Hello My Baby A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder - Poison In My Pocket Too Funny To Fail Dana Carvey Show - All The Ingredients of Mountain Dew Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh John Williams - E.T. Is Dying Peter Frechette - Do It For Our Country (Grease 2) The Cast of Grease 2 - Rock-A-Hula-Luau Michelle Pfeiffer - Cool Rider (Grease 2) Danny Elfman - Batman Theme The English Beat - March of the Swivelheads Yello - Oh Yeah Mrs. Doubtfire as a horror movie Matthew Broderick - Honda CRV commercial Ennio Morricone - Navajo Joe Limahl - The Neverending Story TK - Speed TK Remix Speed 2: Cruise Control Trailer Clip from Speed Pixies - Where Is My Mind? Fall Out Boy - I’m Not Afraid (Ghostbusters) Michael Boddicker - End Credits (Long Version) - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) The Coupe de Villes - Big Trouble In Little China Alan Silvestri - Main Title - Back To The Future Part II (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Rick & Morty - Mortys killing Mortys The Dirty Dozen clip Leon: The Professional clip Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone Key & Peele - Gremlins 2 Pitch sketch Styx - Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
A Magnificently Huge spoiler filled review of the brilliant and hilarious Thor:Ragnarok! Because really, how can you fully appreciate this movie without us telling you what to think? Or at least us telling you what WE think?
Clips: Dread Zeppelin - Immigrant Song Lunachicks - Spoilt Joss Stone - Spoiled Monty Python - Spam Doctor Who Rihanna - Umbrella Flash Gordon Thor: Ragnarok Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley - Pure Imagination Mark Mothersbaugh - Thor: Ragnarok Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song Mark Mothersbaugh - Sakaar Chase
The continuing adventures of the Avengers in the second part of Marvel's historic, enormous, money-fat juggernaut, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Iron Man 3 Thor: The Dark World Captain America: The Winter Soldier Guardians of the Galaxy Avengers: Age of Ultron Ant-Man
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Topics
0:00 Intro 2:36 Thor Ragnarok hype 4:21 The Fresh Shit 4:35 The Silence Of The Lambs 6:18 Eric’s new car 8:59 Chris is adulting and buying furniture 9:55 Stranger Things 15:48 The Thing 17:04 Super Mario Odyssey 21:30 Marvel Phase 2 intro 22:40 Iron Man 3 29:08 Thor: The Dark World 32:48 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 38:50 Guardians of the Galaxy 46:15 Avengers: Age of Ultron 55:40 Ant Man 1:04:05 Batman Triumphant and the DCEU
Clips
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl Peggy Lee - (Sittin On) The Dock Of The Bay Magic Sword - In The Face Of Evil Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat The Silence Of The Lambs Stranger Things Theme Modern English - I Melt With You (1990 re-recording, which is so very wrong) Super Mario Odyssey Theme Weird Al Yankovic - First World Problems Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh Brian Tyler - Can You Dig It? (Iron Man 3) Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F Brian Tyler - Thor: The Dark World Theme Thor The Dark World Auralnauts - Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Party Henry Jackman - Taking A Stand (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) Captain America: The Winter Soldier Redbone - Come and Get Your Love David Bowie - Moonage Daydream Danny Elfman - Heroes (Avengers: Age of Ultron) Avengers: Age of Ultron Cristophe Beck - Ant Man (Official Theme) Billy Crystal - You Look Mahvelous
Everyone says they hate people - but unless you pay to watch hundreds of them die, you’re just a poseur. This week, we break down the rules that govern the most overlooked, under appreciated genre of mass-market entertainment.
Where in the hell is Eric? Have you seen Eric? Our loss is your gain when Brian and Chris can't find him but forge ahead anyway. It's our latest experiment in error - a Magnificently Mini Episode! Now with more riboflavin!
Trick or treat! Smell our feet! Give us all your candy or we’ll egg your house. It’s Halloween, so grab your favorite lame costume and enjoy the socially accepted tradition of soliciting candy from strangers for one night only. Then we’re gonna ride that sugar high all the way to dawn while watching scary movies that really aren’t scary at all. BTW, The Great Pumpkin is totally made up.
0:00 Intro
3:50 The Fresh S**t
4:42 Spoiler Alert - Blade Runner 2049 FULL SPOILER DISCUSSION
23:11 - Spoilers are finally over
23:40 - Chris has been watching Hockey
26:11 - Kraftwerk vs Coldplay
29:58 - Kingsman The Golden Circle
34:51 - Happy Death Day
36:06 - IT (2017)
39:30 - Costumes we wore as kids
45:30 - Special Halloween episodes of shows
48:20 - Do you still do anything for Halloween?
51:09 - Halloween from the perspective of a parent
55:35 - It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
59:36 - Wearing costumes as adults
1:03:30 - Treehouse Of Horror
1:04:46 - Sexy costumes
1:06:35 - The Young Ones: “Nasty”
1:08:13 - The Shining
1:08:40 - Prince Of Darkness
1:08:58 - A Nightmare On Elm Street
1:09:46 - Mystery Science Theater 3000
1:10:46 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1:12:06 - Mad Monster Party
1:13:19 - Monster House
Music and Clips:
Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat
Doctor Who “Spoilers” / Star Trek - “red alert”
Gary Numan - Pray For The Pain You Serve
White Zombie - More Human Than Human
Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch - Blade Runner
Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell - Dueling Banjos
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
West Side Story - Jet Song
Coldplay - Talk
Kraftwerk - Computer Love
Mortal Kombat - Fatality
The BossHoss - Word Up
50 Cent - In Da Club
Benjamin Wallfisch - You’ll Float Too
Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh
Danny Elfman - This Is Halloween
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
“Lawnmower Dog” (Scary Terry) - Rick & Morty
“Nasty” - The Young Ones
Little Tibia & The Fibulas - Do The Mummy (from Mad Monster Party)
Bobby “Boris“ Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers - The Monster Mash
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
Few years in history capture the imagination quite like the year 1984. George Orwell predicted it would be a literal Big Brother State, an awful dystopian world full of paranoia, fear and desperation. Instead we got Reagan, Cold War histrionics, and the summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Oh, and some of the best damn movies ever made. Period. If ignorance is strength, then the MagHuge team has you covered in spades this week with The Best Movies of 1984! Or, well…something.
Scooby-Doo, Justice League, chicks in cat costumes - has there ever been a more eclectic collection of entertainment as Saturday Morning Cartoons? Pour a bowl of your favorite sugary cereal, leave your footy pajamas on, and hunker down with some old school animation.
What’s in the trunk? Director Alex Cox’s only good movie – Repo Man. It’s the classic comedy/sci-fi/punk/noir/conspiracy mashup that made a generation of suburban punks want to go get sushi and not pay. We’ve got Quincy punks…Plates of shrimp…The scruffy genius of Harry Dean Stanton (R.I.P)… And how the greatest soundtrack EVER MADE dragged Repo Man from the brink of total obscurity and shoved it into our cosmic unconsciousness.
What makes a movie truly bad? The MagHuge crew attempts to explore this question through the lens of the 2014 box office failure "I, Frankenstein." We realized very quickly that one man's trash is another man's...enjoyable trash! Please join us for our take on the best Underworld sequel you've probably never seen, but really should.
A show about all the musicians that have enjoyed unparalleled success - despite sucking. A lot. These musical acts shouldn’t have gotten out of their garages, and yet for some reason odds are good a fifth of these losers are in your CD changer, old timer.
Is the third time really the charm when it comes to movie sequels? These days, practically every movie gets a sequel, but it takes true hubris – real cajones – to push a series into Threequel territory and not have it fail spectacularly. The team ponders movie sequels with a 3 in their title to answer the question no one wants answered: Why is a 3quel?
For the first time in podcasting history, a show about the Marvel superhero movies! No, really! No one has ever done this before! We discuss Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In the 1970's, television producer Norman Lear beat Marvel to the punch by several decades with the creation of a sitcom universe filled with individual shows whose characters formed an unstoppable team of comedy heroes to defeat an array of social issues. Archie Bunker is Iron Man. Maude is Thor. George Jefferson is The Hulk. Also: Adrienne Barbeau is Adrienne Barbeau.
Not one of the best guns, not the penultimate gun... the TOP gun. This week it's the second part in our talks about the soundtrack work of quasi-Yacht Rocker Kenny Loggins, and his most favorite soundtrack offering.
You know how your Dad talks about the video games he grew up with back in the stone age? We're talking about those, how cool they sometimes were, and often weren't. Brian gives a master class in the downfall of video games in the 1980s.
This week we look at the ouvre of Quentin Tarantino - the guy who made all those films Gen-X thought were so trailblazing in the 90s, and now look at and sort of say, "meh." It's an attempt at an honest look at what he does that works, and what doesn't. Also, what's up with his foot fetish?
Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker made some of the funniest and most quotable movies in history, and then one day the funny stopped. We perform a comedy postmortem on the ZAZ team to determine how we got from "Airplaine!" to "Scary Movie 4". And stop calling us Shirley.
The Magnificently Huge team savages the instantly forgettable movies of notoriously bland genre-hopping director - and American Treasure - Mr. Ron "Don't Call Me Opie Cunningham" Howard. If you've ever left one of his movies and thought to yourself, "Now THAT was a freakin' Ron Howard movie!" then you are only lying to yourself, friend. That phrase has never been uttered. Not once. Not ever.
You want to become an alcoholic, but you never seem to find the time. Good news! With drinking games, you can become the lush you've always wanted to be!
Geek out with a not-entirely-kind reflection on the cultural juggernaut that is Star Trek.
A discussion of the music we love - but don't brag about. Never going to give you up. Never going to let you down. Rickroll!
This week, we discuss all the things we have about something we love: Bond films. They're cheesy, misogynistic, artistically shallow... and brilliant anyway.
Our ongoing dissection of the film music of Kenny Loggins. When Chris suggested this, I assumed we'd dive into the KL Trilogy: Caddyshack, Footloose, Top Gun. But NAY! Chris dug way deeper than I would have though this subject deserved and found a hidden Loggins gem, the theme song from the Golan-Globus classic, "Over The Top."
A look at Batman in film and television - from the first 1940s serial to Zack Snyder's unholy abortion, "Batman V Superman."