So Do We Still Like This?

That is a very long episode title.

Sam and Rob join me to talk music and movies as we look at the recently completed "From the Screen to your Stereo" trilogy of albums from pop-punk band New Found Glory. For those who don't know, these are covers of movie themes and songs. We discuss the band, the songs, the movies and cover songs in general. And mummy fatigue. We cover that too.

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It's Mel's time to shine as we (Sam and I) indulge her with the other movie she has been wanting to do since the beginning - 1990's The Witches. Based on the Roald Dahl book, and about to be remade with Anne Hathaway in the lead role, this is a bizarre product that claims to be for kids but then spends most of its running time determined to terrify any children that may be watching it. Is this remake worthy? Is it oddly sexual for a kid's film? Are mice as terrifying as this movie purports? All great questions and all are answered here!

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With Space Jam in our rear view mirror (except for the fact we keep bringing it up, this week included) it's time to look at Michael Jordan's another bizarre 90's kid's product - the cartoon Pro Stars. This is a real thing that happened for three months in 1991 where a cartoon aired on NBC featuring Jordan, Wayne Gretzky and Bo Jackson fighting bad guys and helping children. It only had 13 episodes and yet I still remember it well to this day. 

Resident Sportsmen Rob and newcomer Jordan (not the athlete...yet) join me to talk about this oddity that only could have existed in the early nineties. 

It is time to once again break a whole bunch of podcast rules. We eat, we noisily open packages and we even loudly close doors! It has been a while so we felt it was time to rebel against the podcast man. It has also been a while since we had a crew of four but this week Drea, Sam and Rob join me as we lay out a spread of junk food that were staples of our childhood lunch times. Jos Louis. Passion Flakies. Fruit by the Foot. Weird stuff that Rob brings in. We also discuss the mystery of Dunkaroos. 

Oh and we tried out a new recording space so hopefully we all sound incredible now.

Rob hasn't selected an episode topic since Episode 4 so it was time once again. Rob has selected a UK game show that looks to be a phenomenon - Knightmare. Sam joins us as we check out this high concept show where a group of kids have to guide their friend(s) through a virtual world that the friend can't see. It has virtual children getting sawed up by virtual saw blades so hop on in!

We promised to do something besides tv shows and movies and here we go - a music episode! And we are joined by a new guest - Renee! And Rob! But I mean you already know Rob. He's the British one.

So, Big Shiny Tunes is a series of Canadian compilation CD's that were released by Much Music and contained many of the biggest hits of the year. There were 14 of the things but we are only covering the first four as those are the ones we remembered the most. Get ready to get angry at the musical taste of others as we look back at the stuff we listened to 20 years ago!

We promised this back in the She's All That episode and as the most promise keeping podcast of 2019 we had to deliver. Sam and Drea join me to celebrate the 20th anniversary of 10 Things I Hate About You. Is this one a teen comedy classic or a 90's relic? How should you shorten Joseph Gordon Levitt's name? What's it like having a sister? Also we revisit Space Jam and toss a little love its way. 

It's March Madness and we looked at the rich history of basketball movies to find the one that best represents the sport and it's legacy. Naturally we selected Space Jam. Look it was either this or Air Bud and I think we can all agree this was the right decision. Space Jam rookies Rob and Mel join me to see if a movie where Bugs Bunny teams up with Michael Jordan to play basketball against aliens is as amazing as it should be. 

Dim the lights and grab the wine because it's time to get sexy. Cruel Intentions is twenty years old so it's time to see if teens talking dirty is as engaging now as it was twenty years go. Sam is here and we introduce Wads to our podcast family as we watch Buffy and the guy from McGruber talk about boning each other.

The Gentlemen are coming by. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a huge topic to cover so we thought we would carve out a small slice and talk about a single episode, season 4's "Hush". Always right at the top of any Buffy episode ranking, Drea and I wanted to go back to this one to see if it's just as effective and just as terrifying as we remember.