Disenfranchised

“Spin the bishop!”

It's time once again for our quarterly foray into Tucker's cinematic influences with an all-new installment of Straight Up! This week, we're visiting the theater of the underground, doing art for its own sake, and taking a deep dive into the minds that created Ernest P. Worrell! Oh, yeah… and Brett's back! Join us as we cover this truly bizarre film experience!

Check out the standard version of the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NVHYjHapvsY?si=clqIuapbrbXrK8lA

As the second podcast to ever cover this film, we would be remiss if we didn't acknowledge the first, The Projection Booth, whose 2016 episode on Existo was a vital source of research: https://youtu.be/end_CuTDAas?si=D30OuyvGE3EfecaN

We may be excruciatingly… white, but that's no reason you can't follow us on the following social platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, 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, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• 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
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

“Sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right…”

This week, with a remake of The Crow coming to theaters, we’re talking about a fairly obvious ripoff of the original film… or, more accurately avoiding talking about it! Join us for a slew of tangents that includes the films of Steve Oedekerk, ads on streaming services, the Muppets and SNL, the directing career of Jason Reitman, and Tucker’s relationship with the movie Day of the Dead! (Hey - this movie takes place on the Day of the Dead!)

If you smell that liquor on our breath, it’s ‘cuz we been drinkin’, ฿!+¢#3$! Come find us on these social platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, 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, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• 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
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, 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, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• 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
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

“Call me an @$$hole one more time…”

When life, uh, finds a way to keep you from discussing the Will Smith superhero movie during your Will Smith theme month, it’s better if it, uh, finds a way to let you have a stellar guest on when you do get to it! This week, we’re joined by DeVaughn Taylor of the Specter Cinema Club and The Pod & the Pendulum to discuss this film’s unrated extended cut and its effect on the film’s bad reputation, the Los Angeles-ness of Hancock, the collaborative history of director Peter Berg and Mark ‘Not Appearing In This Film’ Wahlberg, and the introduction of a project we’re calling ‘Hamil-cock’! You won’t want to miss this one!

Let DeVaughn know he did a ‘good job!’ in this ep and follow all the other great work he does in the following spaces:

• Check out DeVaughn on the Specter Cinema Club and The Pod & the Pendulum!
• Follow DeVaughn at @_daddydisco on Instagram, Letterboxd, and Xitter!
• Follow Specter Cinema Club at @spectercinema on Instagram and Xitter!
• Follow The Pod & the Pendulum at @pod_and_the_pendulum on Instagram and @podandpendulum on Xitter!

If you smell that liquor on our breath, it’s ‘cuz we been drinkin’, ฿!+¢#3$! Come find us on these social platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, 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, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• 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

“I’m the best there is at what I do and what I do best isn’t very nice.”

In honor of Deadpool & Wolverine in theaters now, we’re looking back to the first time Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds played these characters together in a feature film waayyy back in 2009! We’re talking about our personal histories with the X-franchise, our feelings on Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds in the roles they’ve come to embody, and trying to figure out where Tucker knows various actors from this film! Join us!

We may not be the best there is at what we do, but we’re doing it anyway! Come find us on these social platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Wish Stephen a very happy birthday today! You can find him at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• 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

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Wish Stephen a very happy birthday today! You can find him at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• 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
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

“Do not misunderstand me: danger is very real, but fear is a choice.”

This week, or Gettin’ Jiggy in July theme month continues as we take a look at Will Smith's attempt to make his son Jaden into the next big thing with this 2013 M. Night Shyamalan bomb! Two big names in need of a hit and the child caught in the balance! Join us as we talk this movie's overt influences and world-building and how badly they were trying to build this into a franchise! PLUS, Stephen records during an actual tornado and Tucker gets conflicted about nepo babies!

Let us know we’re not alone on this [after] earth please say hello to us on these various social platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Wish Stephen a very happy birthday today! You can find him at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• 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
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

“This is Ground Zero. This is my site. I can fix… I can fix this.”

Well, friends, we’ve had a doozy of a week! This week, life, uh, finds a way once again as we move forward with our Gettin’ Jiggy in July theme month by looking back at our third-ever Spooky-thon to Will Smith’s foray into action-horror during a downward trajectory in his career! Together, we discuss how well this movie holds up in the wake of COVID, what Will Smith was up to in the mid-to-late-aughts, and what exactly these monsters are supposed to be!

Show our buddy James McCormick some love by checking him out in these spaces:

• @wonkakillskids on Xitter
• @fistfulofmedia on Instagram
• Listen, subscribe to, rate and review The Cast of Cthulhu on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Check out Cast of Cthulhu @castcthulhu on Xitter

Let us know we’re not alone on this earth please say hello to us on these various social platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, 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, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• 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
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

“Let’s break down the word ‘redneck.’ First word, ‘red’: color of power, fire, passion. Second word, ‘neck’... hey, I can’t think of nothing for ‘neck’ right now, but without that, you still got red and that’s something to be proud of.”

We’re kicking off a brand new actor-centric theme month taking a look at the failed franchise starters of Big Willie Style himself, Mr. Will Smith, starting with what might be his first major misstep as a star! We’re digging deep into the ‘90s runs of this cast, including Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek, and director Barry Sonnenfeld, discussing Smith’s music career, and - inexplicably - doing a deep dive into the filmography of Sir William ‘Billy’ Joel! Don’t miss it!

We may not have Jim West’s raw charisma or Artemus Gordon’s affinity for gadgetry, but we do have a social media presence! Find us here:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, 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, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• 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
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

“Charlie, there are two kinds of thieves in this world: those who steal to enrich their lives and this week steal to define their lives. Don't be the latter. Makes you miss out on what's really important in this life.”

This week, we celebrate the life of legendary Hollywood actor Donald Sutherland as we look back to one of our earliest episodes from way back in February 2021 (seriously, listen to our constant COVID digressions) on this F. Gary Gray remake! Also, fun drinking game idea: take a shot every time we mention an episode we could potentially cover that we've already covered by this point!

No need to do a heist to know what we've got going on - just follow us on these social platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, 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, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• 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
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!