Disenfranchised

“Oh!..So it's a girl house.”

We’re back!

After a long hiatus, The Disenfranchised Podcast is back, but maybe a little different. You’ll see what I mean. It’s not done evolving either, so stay tuned!

This week, in honor of the recent release of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!”, we are going to talk about another “girl monster” by discussing 2006’s Monster House. Evan “Jimmy” Wilson keeps Tucker company as he tries, and mostly succeeds, to keep this ship afloat!

Our dad is at the pharmacy and our mom is at the movies with her personal trainer, but we’re on social media! :

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s new podcast with friend of the show Hope Stough - Welles University - on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are sold!
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

“Our world is a tire fire floating on an ocean of piss.”

It's our last episode of 2025 AND our first episode of 2026?! How can this be??? Listen to our annual episode on a failed franchise starter from the year that was and, along the way, discuss our thoughts on the oeuvre of David Lynch, Tucker’s explanation of the proper way to use of AI, and our frustrations with the work of the Brothers Russo.

Is it future or is it past? Hell of we know, but check us out on the following social platforms anyway:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s new podcast with friend of the show Hope Stough - Welles University - on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are sold!
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

"You guys! This is exactly how I pictured my death!"

Filmmaker Paul Feig has a new movie in theaters this week (The Housemaid), so we're rewinding ask the way back to November 2021 when we first discussed the director's work!

We discuss the cast, the writing, and the politics! Their decisions to cater to the fanboys while also making fun of them! We attack both sides of the discourse surrounding this movie, Brett has trouble articulating points and your mileage may vary! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together...mass hysteria!

If there's something strange in YOUR neighborhood, who are YOU going to call? Hopefully not us. You CAN find us on social media, though. Do that instead:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s new podcast with friend of the show Hope Stough - Welles University - on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are sold!
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

“Don’t put avocado on the burger!”

Christmas has come early this year with a new Silent Night, Deadly Night remake in theaters. In an effort to avoid discussing the film, we go deep on Season 51 of “Saturday Night Live,” plan an Eddie Murphy theme month, discuss Tucker’s controversial feelings on the subject of Malcolm McDowell, and weigh in on the Quentin Tarantino/Paul Dano controversy. Don’t miss this one!

You better watch out, you better not cry… but it’ll be hard not to because we still exist on social media! Find us out there… if you dare!

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s new podcast with friend of the show Hope Stough - Welles University - on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are sold!
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

“Hell of a day, huh? Science experiments falling from the sky.”

With Five Nights at Freddy's 2 coming to theaters this weekend, we're rewinding back to March of 2021 to one of our very first theme months when we talked about a video game movie involving animals attacking people. In this ep, we take an extended trip to Brett's Video Game Corner, discuss The Rock's appeal as an action star, and breakdown Stephen's expectations when it comes to movies about giant monsters.

Weirdos on the Internet follow us on social media. Join them, maybe?

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s new podcast with friend of the show Hope Stough - Welles University - on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are sold!
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

“Styrofoam cup…”

Happy Thanksgiving! This year, we’re thankful for all of you AND early-’90s ephemera! To celebrate the release of this cult classic film on 4K, we’re talking about Keanu Reeves’s ‘90s filmography, that time Tucker met director/star Alex Winter, movies that share this movie’s vibe (for good or ill), and Tucker’s bathroom habits (we’re very, very sorry).

Do we seem like weirdos? Better not answer until you see what we’re posting to social media these days:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s new podcast with friend of the show Hope Stough - Welles University - on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are sold!
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

“Where did Kansas go?”

With Wicked: For Good in theaters this weekend, we’re also returning to Oz with this mid-eighties Gen X/Millennial shared fever dream of a film! Join us as we discuss Orson Welles and The Brain, Tucker’s unspoken adoration of old-time radio and Mark Twain, and this film's failed attempts at capturing the magic of the 1939 classic!

Catch us defying gravity, social mores, and do much more in the following platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s podcast with friend of the show Hope Stough - Welles University - on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are sold!
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

“You are what you do. A man is defined by his actions, not his memory.”

With a remake of the Schwarzenegger film The Running Man doing this weekend, we take you back to last year's Arnie April 2: Austrian Boogaloo theme month, when we were joined by Stephen’s college roommate and all-around good guy Phil Smith to talk about Arnie’s last straight-up ‘80s action role! Along the way, we cast a Philip K. Dick biopic, espouse our shared love of practical effects, test Tucker’s good-bad dichotomy of Verhoeven films, discuss the best version of Blade Runner to watch, rate the scientific accuracy of this movie, and manage to squeeze in the briefest of Mighty Ducks deep dives! You aren’t gonna want to miss this one!

When he’s not living the life of a symbiote on the belly of a freedom fighter, you can find Phil hanging out on the internet here:

• Check out Phil’s cosplay fits at @justsomenerdnamedphil on Instagram.
• Look for Phil’s #D printed wares at @philsn3rdfoundry on Instagram or shop online at https://philsn3rdfoundry.com.
• Also, subscribe to Phil’s cyberpunk writing Patreon at https://patreon.com/philwritesbadly

If life is but a dream, then social media must be the waking nightmare. Follow us there to make it more bearable:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s new podcast with friend of the show Hope Stough - Welles University - on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are sold!
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

“It's like an alien Whoopi Goldberg.”

With Predator: Badlands hitting theaters this weekend, we're talking about this (FUN!) Shane Black-directed franchise installment without a direct follow-up, as well as hot dog-based sketch comedy, our status as a Rosa Salazar stan podcast, and on-mic planning an Eli Roth theme month!

We ain't got time to bleed! Hell, we barely have time update the following social media accounts:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s other podcast with friend of the show Hope Stough - Welles University - on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are sold!
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

“Just because I crawled out of the grave doesn't make me a freaking zombie!”

We're back on that Straight Up vibe with a film crew (at long last!) and our good pal J.P Leck to discuss our second-ever Bob Balaban film! We're talking about Tucker's enduring love of Mary Beth Hurt, the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman, and we even hear from a special guest with an instrumental role in why we're covering this film at all!

Be sure to follow the work of J.P. Leck in the following places:

• @endlesselsewhere on Facebook and Instagram
• Dive deep into Joseph's interconnected world of story (and purchase BluRays of the Circle City Supernatural films) at endlesselsewhere.com!
• Find Joseph's latest film Circle City Supernatural 2 (featuring the entire Disenfranchised crew), now streaming free with ads on Fawesome (and other platforms VERY soon)!

Your boyfriend may be back, but we're back too… on our bullshit, that is! Check it out in the following locations:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s new podcast with friend of the show Hope Stough - Welles University - on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are sold!
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod