The Enematic Cinematic

The spring fevered film choices at TEC headquarters

continues! This time with a straight-to-video childhood monstrosity you

either never saw or permanently pushed back to the recesses of your

brain! It's 1986's live action MY PET MONSTER! You know, based on that

sort of huggable, adorably chained stuffed monster doll from the 80's! Along for this trip down someone's memory lane is special guest, comedian DAVID LEON! Expect groaning, memories, the stages of grief and also MONSTROUSLY BAD RAP SKILLZ!

They say with April showers comes May flowers, but

what about in the meantime? Don't worry, TEC has the perfect

prescription to turn that frown upside down! HUGS. And not just any

hugs, A WHOLE BUNCH OF HUGS. In the spirit of spring

fever, we are bringing you one of the most f****ed up children's TV

movies to feature live action plush puppets ever, 1985's THE HUGGA BUNCH! Along for the accidental nightmare is Seattle comedian and very patient person, BETTINA MCKELVEY! Expect hugs, more hugs and the unquestionable faint sound of our slowly collapsing souls!

It's Episode 81 and as you know, March is the

time of year we usually trot out some terrible Leprechaun movie for all ye to

enjoy, but this year we decided it's time for other mythical creatures

to get their time in the commentary lime light which means we bring you a

movie about a gnome, but not just any gnome, A GNOME NAMED GNORM

(1990)! Gnorm IS a gnome who has witnessed a murder! Anthony Michael

Hall IS Casey, a cop who needs Gnorm's testimony to put the bad guys in

this slammer! This movie IS something that really exists! Also along for this buddy cop ride-along is special guest, comedian ALBERT KIRCHNER! Expect the praise and persecution of Anthony Michael Hall aka Tony Mike, Albert getting really pissed someone said he looked like a gnome and incredibly creepy sexual things said by a gnome puppet!

Episode 80 was recorded in February which of course means

store-bought-and-falsely-manufactured love is in the air! And speaking

of store-bought-and-falsely-manufactured love, this episode we wax nostalgic over quite possibly one of the most bizarrely

misogynistic and literally store-bought love stories you've ever grown

up with and told was normal, 1987's MANNEQUIN starring a very wooden Kim

Catrall as an "Egyptian" "princess" "cursed" to "live" as a department

store mannequin and the Andrew McCarthy that creepily loves her! Also feeling the love, special guest, artist and member of Seattle's premiere Michael Bolton cover band Lightning Bolton, EMILY SHAHAN! Expect dead grandmas, a rap dedicated solely to the butt-related pleasure skills of actor James Spader and SO. MUCH. STARSHIP.

It's Episode 79 and the beginning (kind of) of the year 2015! It's real! We're back to the future (2)! So we're ringing in the new year TEC-style with 1981's weird-ass, faux punk horror movie, NEW YEAR'S EVIL and special guest, comedian BRENDAN KELLEY! Expect weird voices, ignorant thoughts on punk rock, familial dysfunction and raps that will elevate your mind, spirit and body (because they are literally about elevators)!

Happy Holidays, Enemaniacs and do we have a special present just for you! It's a horrible holiday horror movie episode just in time for way past Christmas, featuring 1984's classic Santa slasher, SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT and special guest, Scarecrow Video's RICH GRENDZINSKI! Expect naughtiness, sexy Santas, lots of rapping involving the words "sled" and "dead" and a totally adult discussion about the perfect amount of butt hair!

It's November! The month all about eating food! So for those of you trying to cut back on the calories over the holidays, TEC has brought you perfect dietary supplement, 1991's THE REFRIGERATOR about a killer appliance that is sure to take more bites out of you than you do out of it! Along for the personal journey, special guest comedian SARAH SKILLING! Expect chills! Thrills! Cheese! And some refrigerator raps that probably should have stayed on ice!

For our special Halloweenish Episode 76, we've dug up a real dog turd that is seriously not available anywhere (even at Scarecrow)! It's 1988's rock-n-roll horror movie, LONE WOLF starring some middle aged old high schoolers and a werewolf that just WANTS TO ROCK! J/K, he just wants to kill people, but it's pretty similar. Back as always every Halloween is our frightening favorite guest this time of year, comedian DOUGLAS GALE! Expect 40-year-old angst, cheese for your whines and a Wrap Up Rap Tune that WILL FOREVER HAUNT US ALL!

It's not only Episode 75, but it's also our 2 year anniversary here at TEC LIVES

so to celebrate we watched a movie with twice the terribleness AND

forced two separate guests to watch it too! It's 1987's sword and

sorcery shit storm, THE BARBARIANS

starring those bodybuilders people called the 'Barbarian Brothers' back

when they cared, Peter and David Paul! Our guests for the evening were

comedians YOGI PALIWAL and CAMERON MAZZUCA

(but Yogi left before we recorded the podcast, I assume because it was

all TWO much for him)! Expect reminiscing, possibly sad 80's memories

and uncomfortable acts of brotherly love!

We've traveled to a lot of places in our time at TEC LIVES, but never have we traveled as far as back 1991 aka PRE-HISTORIC TIMES! It's Episode 74 and we've fallen into a fake time warp to hang out with some boring kids and shitty puppets in a little kid's movie known as ADVENTURES IN DINOSAUR CITY! Along for this dino-mite adventure (sorry) comedian DANIEL CARROLL! Expect dinosaur puns, stories from our childhoods and the very first wrap up rap REFUSAL!