Be prepared... for some hot lion-on-lion action. 

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Join us as we look back on the movie about a man who ran across the continent, met three presidents, started a shrimping business, fought in Vietnam, founded the city of Detroit, established Republican nomineees’ “Southern Strategy,” invented the cantilever, planned Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps, created the word “guesstimate,” set down the basic elements of falconry, and drew the newspaper comic strip “The Far Side” for a decade: Forrest Gump.

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This week’s movie is set on an airplane transport that transfers prisoners.

The plane in the movie is dubbed “The Jailbird.”

“Jailbird” is slang for prisoners. It is a compound word made from “jail,” a synonym for prison, and “bird,” an animal many associate with flight.

The movie is titled “Con Air.”

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You ever play a Mario game? That.

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Watch several traumatized children fight their parents’ will and run from a horrifically abusive private investigator so that they can synergize with the multinational corporation Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Thank you to our Patrons for being the Power to our Glove, including: Jacob Grimm, Corey Cummings, Brandon Hardy, Christine in Brooklyn, HizonerTheMayor, Jeremy Powlen, Joshua Nicholson, Karen Curd, Larissa Maestro, Dan McIntyre, Ghosts in the Burbs, Jonathon Day, Keaton Ellis, Vincent Jorgensen, @SeeNerdRun, Toxoglossa, Dan McIntyre is the Worst, Amy Parman, Emily Bucago, Jason Lumpkin, Caroline Amberson, Jarrad Holbrook, Adam Reyna, Kathleen Campagna and Kristin Carter. 

“What is life?" It’s a question that has stumped philosophers, clerics, scientists, and politicians for millennia. But it didn’t stump an 80s comedy about a kooky robot! Today, our live 100th episode: Short Circuit.

Special thanks to Vince Romanelli, Kim Wheeler, Lauren Burdock, Tylor Loposser, Caleb Mundy, Joel Gage, Andy Ellison, Dave Racine, Amy Parman and Taylor Jones for helping us pull off this live show! 

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What if we made a Batman where EVERYONE’S The Joker?

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Adam Sandler plays a stunted man-child whose kindness to his community doesn’t absolve him of disturbing fits of anger.

But this time, he’s a wedding singer.

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Do you know golf balls live in golf holes? They do. But, counter to prevailing thought, golf balls are not, in fact, too good for their homes, as their homes are being decimated by man-made developments. Please give generously to the world wildlife fund to stop this habitat destruction.

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If there’s anything we learned in this love letter to both the American educational system and the techniques that the moneyed class use to insulate themselves from actual consequences, it’s this: O’DOYLE RULES.

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Today, we discuss 10 Things I Hate About You, JoGoLev’s “nice guy” talk, Julia Stiles’s joyless dancing, and sex-god Larry Miller.

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Freddie Prinze, Jr. mom-smiles his way through a date with deformed crone Rachael Leigh Cook.

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Ssssssssssomebody stop me! ... No, seriously. This is our second Jim Carrey movie in a row. Dear god, somebody stop us.

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I don’t know if we’ve watched another movie that made us say, “Jesus...we were pretty terrible when we were tweens”. Out of our butts, of course.

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What was the original Gremlins missing? The vocal stylings of Tony Randall!

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Remember how the Grinch hates Christmas because he’s antisocial and The Whos are good-hearted people whose pure love of Christmas changes his heart? What if, instead, The Grinch hates Christmas because he‘s mercilessly bullied by the consumerist, wasteful, selfish Whos, and only changes his mind on a fluke?! Fah-hoo-dooray!

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Gaslighting Your Family: The Movie! 

Also... surprise! Robin Williams does a bunch of voices. 

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We gather together / to ask The Lord’s blessing; / He chastens and hastens / His will to munch on some grindage.

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In The Witches, a cabal of magical women want to turn every child into a mouse, but there might also be a downside.

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The question is: did we love this movie or did we LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUVV this movie?

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Today, we look back on Willow. It’s pretty much Lord of the Rings, except there’s a baby instead of a ring, Aragorn is an asshole, Gollum is Kevin Pollack, and women actually get something to do.

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Gone in 60 Seconds, but with uglier cars.

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A movie about Nicolas Cage stealing a car he’s dubbed, Eleanor, presumably after first lady and diplomat Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Classic tale: boy meets girl, boy follows girl to interdimensional fight tournament, boy meets some other girl, boy fights ice-shooting... ...Jesus Christ.

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Very little fighting. None of it on the streets. 

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God? If there is a God... Can you stop controlling the weather and tracking our every minor transgression to help an American League team win, not even the World Series, but the Pennant?

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This week we look at the rags-to-riches story of the grandson of a millionaire inheriting an MLB club, then using his clout to force himself in as their coach. In short: relatable.

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Ghost, Passenger 57, and Luigi team up to teach a small town the power of the color red.

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This week we look back on the movie that sounds like a kids’ show and gives Damon an excuse to break out his flawless Australian accent.

Sorry... Hees flewlees Esstreeleen eccent.

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You ever wondered what it’s like to be a bug? ... What’s that? .... Oh, you already saw Antz? ... Well, this one has Phyllis Diller in it.

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Real ants are ugly. With their multiple sets of eyes, alien-like mandibles, and a segmented body perched on spindly legs, they’re the stuff of nightmares. And yet, somehow, they have nothing on the ants of Antz.

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Phenomenon is a classic Flowers for Algernon story: except the mouse is Kyra Sedgwick and the flowers are a brain tumor.

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Voldemort vs. Vedder: whoever wins, we lose. In this episode we ponder the philosophical depths of Powder (1995). 

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This week, we look back on a movie that has the bravery to say, "F*ck it, let's blow up the Mir Space Station."

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Remember that meteor movie?!

No. The other one.

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Finally a movie that does what we all wish we could: push the most hated actor in a generation into a fiery cauldron of magma. SEE YOU IN HELL, TOM HANKS.

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Volcano (1997) features rough-hewn, weathered, craggy, stone-faced, stoic, hardened... ....siiiiigh...

You already got the joke, right? We're talking about Tommy Lee Jones.

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Have you ever watched a disaster movie and wished YOU were the intransigent grandmother in the boiling lake of acid? This week, Dante’s Peak!

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"IT'S A STIMPEED!"

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What if Hot Topic was a movie? This week, The Nightmare Before Christmas! 

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This holiday season, it’s important to remember the true meaning of Christmas: letting a man die of a spinal injury in the snow after you steal his clothes and transportation.

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The closest thing to a Thanksgiving movie we could find was Addams Family Values, a movie about a Halloween-y family going to summer camp.

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In 1988, Nintendo released a game that finally let you play as Mario, Luigi, Toa...

Look, let’s not play around here. You played as the Princess from 1-1 to 7-2. You can’t lie to us.

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Two servants stop a rapist cult leader scientist who is holding two innocent people hostage in a dank castle AND THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE BAD GUYS. This week: The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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A story of a pig who wanted to be a sheepdog and a man *chokes* a man who *sobs audibly*

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Join Damon and DJ as they explore the strange, shoulder pad-dominated world of the 80s. How very.

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Physically unappealing characters plod through a washed-out apocalyptic wasteland in The Land Before Time, the movie that you watched at numerous sleepovers at that one really religious friend's house.

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Today, DJ and Damon bravely debate where exactly the Danger Zone lies. Modern day Iraq? The Fertile Crescent? Or (as one religion posits) Jackson County, Missouri?

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You ever see Michael Madsen sleepwalk? You want to? This week: Free Willy!

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You can mock it, but this movie did a lot to raise awareness of facial removal surgery. This week: Face/Off!

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Y'know that feeling in a horror movie when she goes upstairs and you yell, "No! He's up there!!!"? Well, replace "goes upstairs" with "trusts white colonists" and replace "He's up there" with "He's going to kill you, enslave you and force your progeny onto reservations" and add a cute raccoon. Boom: Pocahontas!

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Sometimes -- and I think we all know this -- you just need a hotshot lawyer with a DUI who hates kids to turn your rag-tag peewee hockey team around. Damon and DJ watch The Mighty Ducks.

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We tried to get DJ to participate in this conversation, but he just kept standing in the corner doing the Hundred Hand Slap and saying "Can't you do better than that?" over and over. It was really frustrating. 

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Teenagers with attitudes.  Interdimensional beings that were in the mood. Don't just stand there; let's get to it. Strike a pose there's nothing to it: morph.

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Any one could have said, "I've never seen that. I've never seen someone drive their garbage to the curb, then bang the hell out of it with a stick. I've never seen that," but only Tom Hanks could make "I've never seen that. I've never seen someone drive their garbage to the curb, then bang the hell out of it with a stick. I've never seen that" funny. This week, The 'Burbs.

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In our 50th episode, we review Titanic with special guest Laura Taylor!

Fun fact: in the original cut, after Jack screams "I'm the king of the world!", there was a shot of King Neptune saying "Oh yeah?" while rubbing his hands together malevolently. 

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This week, we look at a movie that, if the Internet is to be believed, is IMPOSSIBLE to enjoy due to its scientific inaccuracies: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

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This week, we look at a movie that, if the Internet is to be believed, is IMPOSSIBLE to enjoy due to its scientific inaccuracies: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

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Today, we look back on Home Improvement, the story of a strong wife and her sons living under the constant threat of electrocution, flooding and fire by living with a man drunk on his own machismo and the tutelage of an unseen mentor named Wilson.

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Ghost tells the story of two white, rich, young people whose love traverses the void betwixt this life and the next.

Or something.

Also the ghost solves a mystery.

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Today, we look back on Sister Act 2, a movie that had one job: come up with a believable reason that Whoopi would have to hide her identity again. 

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Today, we look at Sister Act, a movie whose fun Catholicism made Damon question his atheism and whose FRIGGIN' CUT Harvey Keitel made DJ question his heterosexuality!

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Damon and DJ review this new holiday classic and the bizarre human courting rituals displayed within. 

Watch as a young boy fulfills every kid's dream to fly around in a silver clam-shaped spaceship and make pals with an annoying alien robot with the voice of Pee-Wee Herman. Damon and DJ review 1986's Flight of the Navigator. 

Join Damon and DJ as they review this classic tale of a half-man/half-crocodile who tears a trail of destruction through the Australian Outback and then moves on to devour New York City.  

Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski star in 1986's "Crocodile" Dundee.

We look back on the movie that had everyone saying "They're heeeeeere," which was really funny the first few times: Poltergeist.

This week, we look back on a movie about an alien hunting Special Ops soldiers for sport, of which, the most unrealistic aspect is an Austrian guy named "Dutch."

Damon and DJ review Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. 

If you ever needed another lesson on why chaining your little brother up in the basement is a bad idea, this movie is it. Damon and DJ review The Goonies. 

Former future Mrs. JC Chasez and former future Mrs. Taylor Hanson look back on boy bands of the 90s.

If you were waiting for a sexualized version of a child ghost, has 1995 got good news for you!

Damon and special guest host LT watch Casper. 

At its heart, The Sandlot is about a ragtag team of baseball fans squatting on a piece of prime multi-use real estate in their home town. Property values in the surrounding area would be negatively affected, ushering in the end of America's golden age.

THANKS A LOT KIDS. ENJOY YOUR GAME.

Damon and DJ watched the new Independence Day: Resurgence -- otherwise known as ID4:2:R. And they did it for you. For America. 

Love America, but hate its landmarks? HAVE WE GOT THE MOVIE FOR YOU!

Damon and DJ review the 1996 classic Independence Day starring Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and Randy Quaid. 

After what should have been a lengthy malpractice suit against the butcher that reset his broken arm, some kid instead makes it to the major leagues.

But for the Cubs, though. 

This week we find ourselves torn between who is the bigger villain: the socially conservative Republican Senator, or the manipulative son of a gay couple. It's a tough call. Robin Williams, Nathan Lane and Gene Hackman star in The Birdcage. 

We all remember The Warner Brothers (and The Warner Sister)!!! And Pinky and The Brain!!! And The ... Goodfeathers?

And the...uhhhh...Hip Hippos?!?

Join our hosts as they revisit this coming-of-age tale and discuss their own voyages of self-discovery, DJ's history as a hitman and that period of time when Jamie Lee Curtis lived in a camper in front of Damon's house.

In this mini-episode, Damon and DJ have more to say about Teen Wolf. Just like you were hoping. 

Wolves are known for being nocturnal pack hunters, fiercely territorial and metaphors for puberty.

In this episode we re-review 1985's Teen Wolf starring Michael J. Fox. 

This week, we re-review The Karate Kid.

If the hosts of the All-Valley Karate Tournament are listening, we could use another rundown of the rules re: face-kicking or no face-kicking, please.

In this historic (almost) year-end spectacular, Damon & DJ review breakfast cereals from their youths and compile their favorite and not-so-favorite re-watched things from our first year as a podcast!

Doctors will use this video to diagnose Type II Diabetes.

Hook: a light sequel to a beloved story? A tired uneven cash-in on a book well within the public domain? Or a film that holds an inordinate amount of sexual baggage for 50% of our hosts? The answer is yes.

A comedy nostalgia podcast with Damon Xanthopoulos and DJ Phillips

We look back on the movie "Mannequin," the story of Hollywood Montrose, a young gay man living in Philadelphia in the midst of the AIDS crisis. We watch him deal with a break up and crash diets while turning retail displays into art.

Also, there's, like, a mannequin who comes to life, or something.

Today's episode we look back on... BUH NUH NUH DUUUUUH! The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time.  DJ and Damon discuss distracting Hylians, playing volleyball with Ganondorf, and how picky Epona is over what she will and won't jump over.

Before, they were a bunch of disgraced scientists out to save New York City from a paranormal invasion, but this time they're a bunch of disgraced scientists out to save New York City from a paranormal invasion around New Year's.

In this episode, Damon and DJ look back on Ghostbusters 2. 

A Comedy Nostalgia Podcast featuring Damon Xanthopoulos and DJ Phillips

Damon and DJ look back on A Christmas Story, one the most beloved holiday movies of all time. Please send all death threats to yourinnerchildisanidiot [at] gmail [dot] com

This week Damon and DJ look back on a precursor to 'Saw', about a malicious misanthrope who turns his home into a house of horrors to punish petty thieves with a Rube Goldberg device of death. Merry Christmas. It's Home Alone.

DJ and Damon renamed this Feet, Feet & Feet.

He is the terror that flaps in the night. He is the character that owes costume residuals to The Shadow. Today, we review Darkwing Duck.

Star Fairuza Balk is practices Wicca in life, so she made sure that The Craft was a measured look at non-traditional faiths in the United States.

Just kidding. The women fly in this movie.

A Comedy Nostalgia podcast featuring Damon Xanthopoulos and DJ Phillips

History thinks of the Salem Witch Trials as an example of religiosity gone awry and a community punishing independent-thinking women for things they couldn't control. With 'Hocus Pocus,' Disney demonstrates they think it was totes legit.

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast featuring Damon Xanthopoulos & DJ Phillips

Movies about Mutant Ninja Turtles date back to Edison's first moving pictures tests, but we only developed the technology for TEENAGE mutant ninja turtles in 1990. DJ and Damon look back.

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast featuring Damon Xanthopoulos and DJ Phillips

'What if the afterlife were just some tedious bureaucracy?' is just one of the questions Beetlejuice tries to answer, along with 'Isn't Catherine O'Hara just the best?'.

Comedy Nostalgia Podcast - Your Child Is An Idiot featuring DJ Phillips and Damon Xanthopoulos

The head honchos think that Beverly Hills's Wilderness Girls are nothing but spoiled rich girls who don't know anything about camping, until Phyllis Nefler and Troop Beverly Hills prove that... ...they're spoiled rich girls who don't know anything about camping. 

And Damon proves to DJ that he might have been slightly obsessed with this movie. 

This week, DJ and Damon re-review Full House, and wonder "whatever happened to predictability?" Also whatever happened to coherent plot lines, realistic character development, and joke delivery?

We finally cover an 80s classic! A young boy meets a taciturn father figure and learns an ancient, albeit strange way of fighting. Then he learns an ancient trick that lets him best his seemingly better equipped competitors.

Oh...you probably thought we were talking about Karate Kid, didn't you?

Sorry. Poor word choice.

Yeah, it's just 'Over the Top, a movie about arm wrestling.

Punky Brewster taught us how to mismatch our shoes, stay out of abandoned refrigerators, and how to give a hearty "screw you" to the Department of Children and Family Services.

THIS EPISODE IS TOO HOT TO HANDLE, TOO COLD TO HOLD. OHHHHH YEEEEEEAH! TWO MEN ENTER THE CAGE TODAY: RETURNING CHAMP,  DEATH-J PHILLIPS, WITH HIS SIGNATURE "PHILLIPS HEAD SCREWDRIVE." FACING OFF AGAINST DAMON "THE QUEEN" X, WITH HIS PATENTED "WITHERING GLARE." WHO CAN HOLD THEIR OWN WITH AN ONSLAUGHT OF SPANDEX, ACROBATICS AND HYPERMASCULINE HOMOEROTICISM?! OHHHH YEEEEEAH!!!

Your Inner Child Is An Idiot - A comedy nostalgia podcast from Damon Xanthopoulos and DJ Phillips

Long before they made their names in "Jack Frost" and "The Bucket List" respectively,  Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson were in a small movie weighing the pros and cons of urban vigilantism. This episode, DJ and Damon re-review 1989's Batman.