B Movie Breakdown

We've seen it all here on this podcast; from killer klowns to killer robots, but we have never seen anything quite like Killer Kites! From the folks who brought us Sewer Gators, comes the story of a woman named Abby, who is left a stupid kite after her grandma passes away. But this is not just any old kite, this one is a blood thirsty killer!

Welcome back to After The Sun Goes Down, our Baywatch Nights watch-a-long podcast. This week Mitch and the gang provide us with some Payback and Pack up in episodes 13 and 14 of Season 1. In episode 13, Ryan gets wasted, we still have no idea who the hell Griff is, and we get some wonderful guest casting by none of other than Geraldo Rivera. And in episode 14, we finally get a true crossover with actual characters from Baywatch, other than Mitch & Garner, when Eddie Kramer and Michael Newman are involved in the suspicious death of a drowning victim…oh and randomly Lou is back for no real reason. 

Whistling is a lost art form that involves producing melodious tones by creating sound through pursed lips. It is a versatile and expressive skill that has been practiced and enjoyed by people across cultures for centuries. And this week on the podcast, the Wheel of Misfortune has laid at our feet a documentary about those who have perfected this lost art form. Get ready to laugh, gasp, and whistle along as we discuss, Pucker Up: The Fine Art Of Whistling. 

Just as we started to saddle up our horses to prepare for our journey out of Bonanza City, a new sheriff rolls into town in Episodes 11 and 12 of Kid Nation. In Episode 11, we learn that, surprisingly, kids don't want to learn or study while on a game show in the desert, but will in fact lose their minds and let the town burn to the ground in order to play arcade games. This chaos eventually leads to Sophia being appointed sheriff. And in Episode 12, the newly appointed "sheriff" is left in charge as the "pioneers" tell the council leaders to explore outside of Bonanza City.

Every nation has its price and its gonna cost the life of honest cop Alex Murphy for America to accept robot policing on US soil. In this reimagining of an 80s classic, we are introduced to a dystopia where America has overthrown all its adversaries via drones (clearly fiction! Never could happen!) but for some reason, congress has outlawed their use on the civilian population. The most fantastical part of this premise is that congress would stonewall this at all, but i digress. Robots aren't human! Omnicorp needs a human face to sway Washington and the American people, and recently exploded Murphy is just that hero. Will Murphy do as he is told or will he use his new super powers to crush all who obstruct his pursuit of freedom and justice? Is this a Robocop movie? Yes! Is this not your 80s Robocop? Yes! Let's get in to the details as we discuss 2014's Robocop.

This week, the Wheel of Misfortune takes us on a deep dive into the 2018 flat Earth documentary "Behind The Curve." Throughout the episode, we discuss the unconventional beliefs, theories, and arguments which challenge the widely accepted belief that the earth is a sphere. So join us as we explore the wild world of the flat Earth movement and the individuals who are leading the charge. 

This week on After The Sun Goes Down, our Baywatch Nights watch-a-long, things are truly shaken up in what feels almost like a brand new season shoved into Season 1. The show itself took a 3 month break and came back with a new title sequence (kept the theme) with new characters in it and seemingly gave the boot to yet another show staple, this time Lou Rawls. Now That Lou is out, new owner Donna Marco shows up in episode 11, aptly titled The Takeover; in which Mitch and the gang investigate the truly hostile takeover of a major corporation. Then in episode 12, Thin Blood, we meet Ryan's sister Charlie and some of her friends in the New York mafia in what ends up being a traumatic episode for Mitch.

This week on the podcast we follow a fifteen-year-old model train geek on a date with his dream girl that suddenly derails when a sinister hobby store owner shrinks and imprisons them in an elaborate, unearthly train set to swap their souls with the plastic members of that world. Will they become plastic members of the train set forever or will they escape and stop the evil Mr. Dalby? Listen in and find out as we discuss the 2001 "children's film," Train Quest.

As we near the end of our time in Bonanza City, chaos is about to erupt as we are a two parter in Episodes 9 and 10 of Kid Nation. In episode 9, the "journals" really stir things up by suggesting that the districts trade members against their will. This obviously goes over so poorly, by the end we are left with a major cliff hanger to boot out the current regime of council leaders. In Episode 10, we get the results of the next "election," while realizing how much of a bad idea the regime change and member trading really was.

This week it’s a classic B Movie Breakdown double feature! First up, we dive into a stop-motion sci-fi film called Advanced Devolnics, created by listener of the show M. Taylor Hensley. In Advanced Delvonics, a character named “T”  wakes up with no memory after surviving a storm. He is tasked with helping a team that fixes degrading universes by merging parts of adjacent universes to keep them whole, but all is not what it seems. Next up in our double feature, might be one of the saddest and most depressing things we have ever watched for the podcast, death education film Rainbow’s Remedy…..again chosen from the Wheel of Misfortune.