The Bricked Pit

Are you trying to hack the Pentagon on an Apple IIe? Are you wearing suspenders with a t-shirt and blazer? Is a Culture Club cassette stuck in your mom's Chevy Caprice Wagon's tape deck? Are your Air Jordans kicked up on the mall food court table? You may be stuck in an 80's teen movie. I mean existentially. You really need to get help. Your hairline is not what it used to be and all those bills are way past due. While you wait for your family to show up and take you home, listen to Adam, Josh, and Jason talk about 80's teen movies. What made them great? How well have they aged after 30 years? They talk about 3 O'Clock High, The Breakfast Club, Better Off Dead, Ferris Bueller, Adventures in Babysitting, Iron Eagle, Dream a Little Dream, Say Anything, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and more. 

As you sit back in your LazerBoy recliner wearing your Levy jeans and drinking your Dr. Thunder soda, you see by the time on your Rollex watch that it's time to watch a movie. Well, there're only one kind of movie for someone of your caliber. That's the mockbuster. A movie that knows that it doesn't have the budget, cast, marketing, or originality of your big studio A-list titles; but knows that it can be made cheaper and in just the nick of time to ride a blockbuster's coattails to profitability. Jason, Adam, and Josh discuss such films as Troll 2, Death Race 2000, Mac & Me, Missing in Action, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

You sit in the living room of that old house that you just bought. The door swings open as that old rocking chair squeaks back and forth. Is it all due to that cold draft that you felt chill your bones just a moment ago? Or is it something much worse? An entity of pure dread? At that moment you hear the disembodied laughter echo around you and your heart sinks in the realization that it's Adam and an omen of a new episode of The Bricked Pit. This episode, Josh, Jason, and Adam welcome John from the Open Pike Night podcast to talk about haunted house movies. Join in as they discuss The Changeling, Ghost Ship, The Shining, Poltergeist, Event Horizon, and The Haunting among others. 

The earthquake's damaged the nuclear reactor. Its heat is attracting the Killer Horny Toads towards the town. The guys in the Pit decided that since their podcast was a disaster that maybe they should do an episode on disaster films. What are the hallmarks of a disaster film? Why do audiences love them? How much money was Michael Caine's tax bill to cause him to be in so many? The guys talk films like The Poseidon Adventure, Twister, Dr. Strangelove, Armageddon, The Martian, Greenland, The Swarm, and others.

The Great Miffed Lord Josh is out, so Jason steps in for this week's Hate Box to talk about his most hated movie. A live action adaptation tarnishes his favorite toy line, but is it really that important?

Are you strutting around to the cool groove of a smooth Stevie Wonder track? Cranking out the reps in the gym to some Outcast? Driving cross country to some classic Tom Petty? Or just getting drunk to some Hank Williams? Music informs the moments of our lives, and the movies that we love. The guys in the Pit talk about some of their favorite movie score composers and soundtracks. Somehow Adam, Jason, and Josh are able to whittle down their favorites to people like John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, John Carpenter, Vangelis, Danny Elfman, Howard Shore, and Prince to start and soundtracks like The Crow, Snatch, the Guardians of the Galaxy films, and American Graffiti.