Pitch Shift

Tramps like us, baby we were born to punch Mike Appel's brother in the face.

After appearing in two of Tansy's pitches, Bruce Springsteen is finally getting his own episode! And it's not just a movie based on a Springsteen song, it's a movie *about* the making of Born to Run, the album that was being held hostage, the band member who punched the manager's brother, the saxophone franken-solo and the guy who still isn't that comfortable with being called The Boss.

Bruce Springsteen Songs Featured:

Born To Run

Shackled and Drawn

Out on the Street

There Goes My Miracle

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If you read this far, tweet me your favourite Springsteen song. Mine's probably Thunder Road, but it's close.

Woo-ah!

Vampires are real, they're capitalists and they're going to college! This week Charles is pitching a college rom com about Petra, a young vampire who is getting sick of the whole bloodsucking game, and Valerie, an undead zombie who eats brains and takes names. But maybe... the system is the problem?

Kim Petras Songs Featured:

- All The Time

- Close Your Eyes

- Got My Number

- Personal Hell

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Rule number one: you gotta do cons...

The problem with working with professional liars? You can't trust them, or at least you probably shouldn't in Tansy's pitch for a twisting, backstabbing con artist film inspired by Marina and the Diamond's perennial banger, "How To Be A Heartbreaker". Tom has been happily providing backup for his gregarious cousin Marina and her cons for years, but when a difficult mark puts Tom in the spotlight and the Russian mob on their case, Tom is left wondering if he's the one really being conned.

Also we cancel God in like, the first 30 seconds.

Marina and the Diamonds songs featured:

How To Be A Heartbreaker

Savages

Obsessions

Primadonna

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As we proceed to shoot you in the knees*

Special guest Saro is back with another slightly unhinged movie pitch, this time for Notorious B.I.G.'s "Who Shot Ya?" In classic gangster film style, Big Papa (Winston Duke) has got a plan to bring crack back to Brooklyn, and he'll fight any crooked mayors, street level stalkers and even his own past to get to the top of the food chain.

Plus a foul mouthed Katherine Langford, a pretty good Werner Herzog impression, podcast ads for crack and Victoria Police's ongoing attempts to recruit us.

Songs Featured:

Who Shot Ya? (Notorious B.I.G.)

2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted (2Pac feat. Snoop)

Ether (Nas)

In Da Club (50 Cent)

HUMBLE. (Kendrick Lamar)

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* yes I know it's the calf muscle, I just needed something to rhyme. I work really hard on these descriptions and I don't think anyone reads them. Tweet me a Baby Yoda gif if you do.

Everything IS awful!

In our farewell to 2019, what better song to make a film of than Everything Is Awful? Charles pitches the story of Henry, a man whose awful 2019 leads to him to join a questionable commune (not a cult) and take revenge on those who wronged him in 2019 (including Elon Musk).

Plus our first ever language warning, helpless mourning for our lost episode and a teaser of what's to come in 2020!

Songs Featured:

Everything Is Awful (The Decemberists)

The Infanta (The Decemberists)

January Hymn (The Decemberists)

A Beginning Song (The Decemberists)

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Last Christmas, I gave you my farm....

In a truly loose, improvised episode, Tansy and Charles are riffing their way into creating a Christmas classic based on Taylor Swift's 2019 Christmas song and their mutual desire to fix the most Pitch Shift movie of 2019, Last Christmas.

After losing her Christmas loving husband Nick (Henry Golding)on Christmas day, Taylor (Emilia Clarke) retreats to his Christmas tree farm, which of course is haunted by Nick's ghost. But can you move on with life when your husband is still kinda there? And so is Oscar Isaac?

Song Featured:

Christmas Tree Farm (Taylor Swift)

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We got really off topic recording our Christmas Day episode and it spiralled into a 12 minute review of this movie and I ain't wasting that content baby!

All I want for Christmas is You(r life)

The ultimate Christmas song deserves the ultimate Christmas movie pitch! Tansy is combining everything we love from every Christmas movie into a turducken of a winter classic - Die Hard, Love Actually, The Princess Switch, The Santa Claus, everything except Gremlins (which, honestly, she probably could have included if she really tried).

Baker Sam (Elijah Wood) just wants to win the big Christmas baking competition. Loose cannon Secret Service Agent Chris (Daniel Radcliffe) just wants to save the President (Mariah Carey). But when they meet in a bar, they decide to swap lives for the week before Christmas - what could go wrong?

Songs Featured:

All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey)

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (Noah Cyrus)

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland)

White Christmas (Michael Bublé and Shania Twain)

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It's alright, I love you!

Charles is throwing a yule log on that Christmas Spirit fire with his pitch for a film version of Sufjan Steven's truly bizarre song for the season, Christmas Unicorn! It's been 30 years since the Christmas killer tore through small town Connecticut, and while the Christmas killer isn't back, the Christmas Unicorn that was created to deal with the trauma is!

Plus our favourite films of 2019, Charles's continuing attempts to rewrite It: Chapter Two and an Anchorman style fight between true crime podcast hosts.

Songs Featured:

Christmas Unicorn - Sufjan Stevens

Christmas Time - Bryan Adams

Say All You Want For Christmas - Nick Jonas & Shania Twain

Rocking Around The Christmas Tree - Miley Cyrus

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Six white boomers... and hell, any of them could have killed him....

Christmas is upon us, so we're getting into the Christmas spirit with some Christmas pitches! First up is Tansy's Aussie Christmas murder mystery, Six White Boomers. When Mr Howard is found dead at his annual Christmas party, it's up to Detectives Long and Short to find the killer, but with so many suspects and so many motives, how will they know which of these six white boomers did it?

Also the shocking truth that Charlie has never played Clue, a crash course in the last twelve years of Australian politics and a shuffle round pitch for Bonnie and Clyde starring Michael Bublé.

Songs Features:

Six White Boomers (Russel Coigt)

Baby It's Cold Outside (Michael Bublé and Idina Menzel)

Home For Christmas (Meghan Trainor)

Holly Jolly Christmas (Michael Bublé)

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