The Pitch-off Project

Josef and Leete are alone in the boardroom answering listener questions about bad investments, movies we love that everyone else hates and rewatchability. Followed by a lighting round of movies titled: Smile, Broadway Baby Goes to Bucharest, Babe 2: Pig in the City, Drive My Horse to the Stable, The Long and Short Of It and Anytown USSR. Spoiler alerts for… pretty much every mystery you haven’t seen yet.

We welcome Jessica Fife, our new Executive Marketing Guru, to the boardroom. Marketing discussions include Stoli Vodka and baseball bats.

City girl Megan Poole and Small-town boy Andrew Gaunce are workin’ hard to get their fill of a movie adaptation of the song Don’t Stop Believing by Journey. Megan creates the civil rights story for the ages. Andrew, on the other hand, decides to shit all over the working class. And in the end, the adulation will fall on one contestant like dominoes.

Trevor and Jordi crack the code on a movie about hacking. Trevor reveals the secret phone number to the moon. Jordi invents a 3D printer for ice. And in the end, a bag full of cake will change everything.

Jake and Hana take the plunge and pitch movies set entirely in a bathroom. Jake wows us with his extensive knowledge of bird anatomy. Hana uses some sublet sonic plagiarism. And in the end if you get it, you just get it.

Andrew and Clover throw off the shackles of oppression and test their mettle with the YA dystopia genre. Andrew discusses the physics of a meteor going boink off a guy’s head. Clover proposes a hero as sexy-horrifying as Doug Jones in The Shape of Water. And in the end, the movie is sold on the strength of one actor’s performance, as it shall ever be

Josef are Leete are alone in the boardroom today, answering YOUR listener questions and doing a lightning-speed development round. What’s the best method for getting actors to cry? How deep can a 1940s underwater explorer get with an Aqualung? Can Siri create the greatest screenplay ever written? And in the end, the sequel to a mediocre Jack Black vehicle will predictably be all the rage.

Kris Maki and Ryan F. Hughes scrub in and try to resuscitate Zach Braff’s career with an original action vehicle. Kris’s movie shrinks in scope from a globetrotting action adventure to claustrophobic torture porn. Ryan’s weirdly ripped Braff goes on a murder rampage on a bunch of actors we can’t cast. And in the end, Josef screams the name of our winner into the abyss.

Kristen and Martina try to make use of the 20 wooden rocking chairs bequeathed to Leete by his Nana Gram Gram. Kristen turns the rocking chairs into Mad Max-style killing machines. Martina cashes in on her history with Martin Sheen. And in the end, we will destroy Leete’s only tangible reminder of his Nana Gram Gram and declare a winner!

Grace and Brianna put their literary skills to the test as they create modern adaptations of classic works. Grace works her way through a series of tag lines and posters. Brianna parades a series of Martins through the studio. In the end, Ishtar Studios retains the gravitas which you, the listener, have come to expect.