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MOVIE MIKE: The Best “Mid” Childhood Movies That Would Fail Today + Movie Review: Mickey 17 + Trailer Park: Death of a Unicorn
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
You should not be postponing your happiness. Your greatest happiness is not necessarily going to like come from a relationship. Your partner should add to your happiness, but your happiness is really coming from within you.
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Young Pueblo
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
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Ryan Seacrest
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
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Ryan Seacrest
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host, Movie Mike. Gonna be a nostalgic episode. I've been fired up since last week talking about mid movies. I want to talk about the best mid movies from my childhood that would not succeed today. These movies would fail by today's standards and that makes me sad. In the movie review, we'll be talking about the new Robert Penson movie that I've been waiting for forever. Mickey17 was it worth the almost two year wait to finally see this in theaters and in the trailer park? We'll be talking about the new A24 movie, Death of a Unicorn, starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega. They play a father and daughter who hit a unicorn with their car and then discover that, well, unicorns have magical healing powers that all the corrupt people in the world want. Movie. Maybe it's a little bit too close to home, but thank you for being here. Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday morning Movie Crew. And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike's Movie podcast. This might be one of the topics I am the most passionate and fired up about. So much so that I was working on this list and it just goes on and on and on that I just want to get on here and rattle off movies from my childhood that I think would not succeed by today's standards. Last week got into a big discussion about mid movies and why a movie can't just be average anymore. There's nothing wrong with being average. I am an average movie reviewer. I have made a career out of being mid. And through my lifetime there have been movies that have just been okay. But sometimes these movies resonate with me more than I think. And maybe they're not the movies that run to the top of my list. So these are the best movies ever. But these movies specifically with my childhood built the foundation. They were there for me when I had nothing else to watch. And are they my go to's right now? If I go sit down and watch a movie, I love watching nostalgic things. If I'm gonna go back and watch things, it's probably gonna be the top tier stuff like Toy Story and all the big ones or Shrek. But these are the movies that were there for me in between those movies. In the dark days when there was nothing else to watch, when I was scanning through broadcast channels or basic cable channels or in a hotel somewhere in another city and I just had to watch something these are the best mid childhood movies for me in my opinion that I think would not exist by today's standards. I'm going to focus on the years 1991 to 2003 which would be what the Internet defines as childhood. 0 to 12 years old. This would be my childhood. The 90s was an incredible time where you can make movies about anything. And one movie from my childhood that I love, that I still reference now to this day that just makes me think of a time where it was so important for there to be trailers before a VHS that you would see all the things coming out soon on home video. I have in my memory associated with certain of my favorite movies. I remember all the pre trailers. Some of them had Burger King commercials. I remember them all. There are a lot of movies that I never got to see. But I know those trailers from the beginning to the end. And one trailer that always stuck with me was the Homeward bound trailer from 1993. This movie would not exist by today's standards. Homeward Bound, the incredible journey. It is about kids who have to say goodbye to their childhood pets. The family moves away. So they leave them on a farm with some other family. Which is a wild thing. Remembering when what this movie was about. I remember just watching a movie about a dog who was the leader, a dog who was kind of a dummy and then the cat who was sassy. And I just thought that was fun but I kind of forgot. Why did they leave the the dogs and the cat with a family member? Why didn't they take them? I'm sure they had an explanation why, but that seems kind of sad if you thought about that happening today of somebody saying, yeah, we're moving across the country and we can't take our dogs because we're moving into the city or we're moving where we can't have dogs. These would be the most terrible people in the world by today's standards. But back in the 90s you make a movie about it, a Disney movie where the dogs and the cat are so sad that they have to go find their owners. But I want to take you on a trip back and put you back in the 90s. Here's a clip of the VHS trailer for Homeward Bound. Just listen to the sounds and tell me if this doesn't instantly take you back to a time when everything was more simple.
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Young Pueblo
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
Can own from Walt Disney Home Video. I'm gonna miss you so much. Left behind with family, friends have a nice vacation and far from their home Three beloved pets take matters into their own paws. He's Shadow.
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Colleen Witt
Something doesn't smell right.
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
She's sassy. Cats rule and dogs drool. He's Chad.
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
Get nine of them. In the classic tradition of Walt Disney Entertainment, comes Homeward Bound, the Incredible Journey, coming this fall on video cassette. That instantly takes me back. Another movie that this reminds me of was Wild America, which came out in 1997. You had Jonathan Taylor, Thomas, Devin Sawa and Scott Bartow, who played three brothers, which that is an incredibly 90s cast. But they go out on a cross country camping trip. I didn't know it at the time, but this movie was actually based on a true story. This movie felt incredibly deep to me as a kid. It came out in 97, so I was like 6 years old and I was at a point in my life where I was only watching animated movies and really just movies geared towards kids. But this almost felt like that in between time. And I think at that time I idolized any kind of teenager. And I saw these kids as like being the coolest. They had the very 90s bullish haircut, which was such a statement back in the 90s that was like, oh man, if you have that haircut, you are so cool. I always wanted to grow my hair out because of that. I always wanted to get highlights, even though I would look terrible with that in my hair. And we think about now making fun of some teenagers who have like the broccoli cut or the really foofy hair and think, oh, these kids look ridiculous. Do we not remember the bowl cut that was so popular in the 90s that had a chokehold on every 90s heartthrob on the COVID of Tiger Beat. That bowl cut was annihilating in the 90s. I would say it was more ridiculous than anything that kids have nowadays in teenagers. So I thought this movie was super cool. I was always inspired by any kind of nature movie, even though myself I've never really been into camping. But when it comes to movies about it, I find it incredibly inspiring. It's movies like Wild America and later down the line into the Wild, where that movie got me onto an incredible kick of transcendentalism and the focus of, like, loving nature. I got super into that for a while in my teen years. But it all goes back to movies like Wild America and you couldn't really make a movie like that anymore. So I included that in my list here. Another movie, a big one from the 90s, is Blank Check from 1994. Although this movie did have pretty decent box office success, had a budget of $13 million and went on to make 30.6 million at the box office. It's all about a kid who cashes a blank check for a million dollars. But a movie like this would not happen anymore for a couple of reasons. One is because it is hard to make a kids movie now with somebody who isn't famous. And this kid by no means was famous whatsoever in the 90s. You could really just sell the idea that right there a kid gets a million dollar check. And what you would expect a kid to do with a million dollars, Buy a bunch of crazy things and blow it in a few weeks. And not only that, there's a really questionable scene in this movie that's now been debated a lot. I covered it a long time ago and now people talk about it all the time. But he starts to fall for this undercover agent who is trying to expose his boss that he's actually posing as. That doesn't really exist. But at one point in the movie they share a kiss and it's really weird. I haven't rewatched the movie since on Disney plus since it kind of became more of a thing of how weird it is. So I'm not sure in between the time when I got Disney plus and maybe rewatched it back in like 2020, before that's been a little bit more publicized if they've gone back and taken out that scene. But that is a no go by now. I think there was always a weird theme in the 90s of like younger kids trying to get after adults, which is really weird when you think about it. And at the time it didn't feel weird because I was a kid watching it, thinking that makes sense. Like me as a kid, I would probably have those thoughts. But when you think about that this was a movie that an adult wrote the script, an adult directed it. There were so many adults working as the cast and in the crew, somebody should have said something. So for those reasons, because you don't have a bankable star. Because now Disney movies don't really take a whole lot of risk anymore. And because of the questionable scene, this mid movie would not be successful today. Next up on my list, I have Little Giants. From 1994, the movie had a budget of $20 million and only made $19 million at the box office. That sounds crazy to me because I see this movie as a success because I didn't see it in theaters, which looking at those numbers, I guess not a lot of people did. But it ran so much on tv. I remember watching it on Disney Channel. ABC Family, it would run all the time. And I think that's probably where a lot of us were exposed to it. It's about a group of misfit kids who form a football team trying to compete against the big boys in town. About the Little Giants versus the Cowboys, which obviously in the 90s everybody hated the Cowboys or you love the Cowboys based on their success. Man, if we could get a little back of that right now. That's why everybody hates us, because we haven't been good since the 90s and we're still so arrogant every single year. If you don't know, I'm a huge Cowboys fan. And I think it's because every year we're optimistic and say it's. It's gonna be our year. And the fact that we keep saying that and haven't won anything significant since the 90s, I think is why people hate us so much. But you look at this movie and think, oh man, those glory days of when they were then what the chiefs are now of getting all the hate in the world. But back to the Little Giants. This movie is so fun, so dumb and irreverent and such a pivotal part in all of our childhoods that you have to wonder what the equivalent is going to be these days of a movie like this if it doesn't have success in theaters. Which we have a lot of family movies that come out in theaters and they bomb. And some see A Second Life on streaming, but it doesn't really have that same weight as it did before. Unless it's like a big Disney movie that gets put onto Disney plus and then gets streamed over and over again. It is hard for a movie that doesn't succeed in theaters to go on a streaming service and have a second life. Like these movies that didn't have success in theaters but had a second life through either TV airplay, DVD or VHS sales. So what is that gonna look like nowadays? Are kids gonna have any of these type of movies like we did when we grew up? That makes me a little bit sad. Speaking of sports movies, a mid movie that would not work by today's standards and just not have the success that it did back then that it would now air. Bud from 1997, this movie only cost $3 million to make, which is pretty much by a big movie standard, pretty dirt cheap. If you look back on the trailer and rewatch this movie, you could see that the movie wasn't that expensive, but it was the idea of A dog being able to play basketball in the original one. He went on to play football and all these other sports. Dude could do it all. Could you imagine getting benched so they could put airbud in? I don't even. Like, I wouldn't have a problem playing against the dog, but if I was on airbuds team and I was playing, I was a starter, and they're like, you know what? Distro, you're out of there. We're putting in Air Bud. I'd be like, dude, I just got benched for a golden retriever and he's dominating. I couldn't do it. I would switch teams and go play against Air Bud because that would be less demoralizing. But the movie went on to make almost $30 million at the box office. And I think overall, it's a mid movie. Like a lot of what we associate with all these movies is the memory of it, because we grew up with it and we experienced at a time where our brains were smaller. Kid brains. That is why we love these movies. If you were to watch them now with fresh eyes of if I went back and watched a movie from the 90s, I wouldn't feel the exact same way. I wouldn't build that nostalgia. So a lot of these aren't like the top tier kids movies. They're not the Lion Kings, they're not the Aladdins, they're not. They're not the Toy Stories, they're not the Monsters, Inc. But they did play a big role. And if you think about now, if they tried to make a $3 million movie about a dog that can play sports, it wouldn't happen. It wouldn't succeed. No way would they even make the $30 million that they made off the first one, which they made a lot of sequels. A lot of them went straight to video. So maybe, who knows, they're rebooting everything at this point. Maybe they bring back Air Bud. Another movie I wanted to include because it holds a very special place in my heart. It's a movie I feel maybe the most of you haven't seen, but it was the first movie I saw in theaters back in 1997. Nobody talks about this movie, but it's Leave it to Beaver had a budget of $15 million and only made $10 million at the box office, which I didn't realize how big of a bomb this movie was. Again, a mid movie by critic standards. And now looking back on how much it earned, but to me, this was one of the best movies of my childhood. It was based on the TV show Leave it to Beaver, which was way ahead of my time. The thing about things being ahead of my time, it's different when you're broke. We grew up without a whole lot, including tv. We would really only have cable. I think my parents would sign up for like a free month of cable. We would have it for a little bit, then they'd cut it off. So there was periods of my time as a kid where I did have cable. Well, for the most part, it was just watching regular tv. And sometimes on regular TV there'd be channels where they would just re show a bunch of old shows. I know. I think it was on TV Land was actually on cable. But there was a random channel like at the very end of all the channels that they would re show black and white TV shows. That is where I was exposed to shows like I Love Lucy, where I watched a lot of Three Stooges and also where I watched a lot of Leave it to Beaver. So even though that TV show was way ahead of my time, I knew all about Wally and the Beef and his parents at Cleavers way before this movie came out. And I think that's why I was excited for it. Maybe one of the only kids excited for it because I was exposed to the TV show before and this movie was all about, okay, we're going to take those same members of that family. But now they're placed into the hip 90s where it's not the 1950s anymore. And it's all weird because you can't have this wholesome family like you did back then work by today's standards. But the movie didn't do well. It tanked at the box office, it got bad reviews. And I think there was a period in the 90s where a lot of just classic things from back in the day like Leave it to Beaver, Little Rascals, Flipper and Casper, those shows that had a life way, way, way back, were brought back and made movie adaptations of. So remakes have always been a thing. I think that would almost be similar now to a lot of things from the 80s being remade today. Because anything in that 30 to 40 year window, it feels kind of like, okay, it's time to remake this. And you have a lot of people who maybe grew up with it or knew about it way back then, but now we're going to reintroduce it to an entirely new audience. So there's no way this movie would even get made today. Another great Disney movie that had a second life through VHS sales was Heavyweights came out in 1995. The movie had a budget of about $10 million. It made $17.6 million at the box office. This was another instance of it was a movie made by adults, but for kids. And some of the subject matter was, I don't want to say darker, but a little bit more adult. If you look back on the best kid movies, in my opinion, it was always ones that kind of push the boundaries. You have people farting, you have people making innuendo jokes, and you have, in this movie, kids who don't look like your typical kids that you would expect in a Disney movie. And that's why I love it. And it's just a ragtag group of individuals, and it's all about the camaraderie and it's all about the friendship. And I think that is why that movie has had so much success and nostalgia over the years, because that is what we remember from it. And for me, being a chunky kid, I was like, man, there's finally a movie where kids look like me. I haven't seen a movie now, by today's standards, where a kid looked like I did back in the 90s. And if there is one, which I think they've probably gotten away from it now, it's always like the token chunky kid. And I hated being the token chunky kid because they always treat him the same way. They always write him the same way. He's never a cool kid. He's always like the lame one who doesn't get the girl. But Heavyweights flipped the script on that ahead of its time in the 90s, where the chunky kids were the cool kids and they made fun of the skinny kids. The movie this year is celebrating its 30th anniversary. I don't really want a sequel, but it would be cool to see a reunion. I know a lot of them, some of them have gone on to be successful from Heavyweights. Some of them have gone on to live some harsh days, some harsh lives. But I think it would be pretty awesome to see them all come together and do a Disney plus special. Another one that Heavyweights reminded me of was house arrest from 1996. The movie cost about $5 million to make and only made $7 million at the box office. It's about this group of siblings that lock their parents in the basement to prevent a divorce. And then other kids from the neighborhood get wind of this idea, get wind that their parents are locked up, and they're like, hey, my parents are going through something Right now they're struggling. They're always fighting. We're gonna lock them down in the basement too. It's movies like this with wacky premises that we've been talking about that just don't happen anymore. Studios don't want to take risks on dumb ideas anymore. And I know I'm putting a lot of blame on studios not taking the risks. I will also say that I think audiences have become harsher when it comes to things that are weird. And we're so quick to shoot things down if it's not a level of sophistication, and I'm probably guilty of doing this from time to time, but sometimes, can we just have fun while watching a movie? There are certain movies that I just want dumb things from a premise like House Arrest. It has a dumb premise, but it also has heart. And maybe that's where some things miss out on is if you're gonna have as ridiculous of a premise of a group of kids locking their parents in a basement, you have to have heart. And that's what this movie did. You have the lead character played by Kyle Howard. His name was Grover, which. Oh, man. Kyle Howard was in some good movies in the 90s. His character in this movie had a lot of heart. He was just trying to prevent his parents from divorcing. And then he also develops feelings for Jennifer Love Hewitt's character, who she was like. My biggest crush in House Arrest is probably another big reason why I enjoyed this movie so much. But he had heart. Not only did he want his parents to get back together, but then he's also trying to get the girl. He's trying to be a good brother, trying to be a good friend. There are a lot of layers here of just having good characters, which maybe that's the other thing of just movies like this lacking development in the writing. You gotta write a good script. Especially when it comes to kids movies when it feels like, oh, you can just throw out any idea, it's all for kids, it doesn't really matter. I just feel like these types of movies used to try a lot harder to actually make a good movie. But House Arrest is right up there. But still, it's a good movie. It's not one of the best movies of the 90s. Again, we're talking about mid movies here. A great mid movie, a top tier mid movie. House arrest from 1996 just wouldn't succeed today. Now we'll get into later 90s and early 2000s. Office space was a movie that barely made its money back in theaters. But it became a huge hit on VHS and DVD sales and was really big with cubicle workers. A comedy like Office Space I just don't think would work. Because even though it laid down, I would say, the foundation for the Office and other. Not that Office Space was a mockumentary, but it kind of laid the ground for other workplace comedies. Not that it was an entirely new concept, but it was something about it being set in a workplace that felt familiar, but also had a bunch of wacky characters and had a comedy style that resonated with a lot of people. Not in theaters, but later through vhs. And I think it's hard for a comedy like Office Space and really any comedy to have success now is because we're all so used to short form comedy. And Office Space is one you really got to lean into. Watch the entire movie. Because I'm not sure that there are a lot of just individual bits from Office Space that I remember thinking being the funniest parts, obviously, like when they go and break the computer in slow motion. The soundtrack to this movie, the old guy in this movie, there are some key moments, but overall it's the composition of the movie. It was a movie in the 90s, like a lot of other comedies where you put in that VHS and you watch it from beginning to end and you just enjoy taking in the entire movie. And I remember just there's a point in my life where I just had movies on a loop. Just turning on a movie felt comforting. We don't really do that anymore because we're so intentional and we have this feeling of we can't be bored at all. If I get up on a Saturday morning and I don't have a set thing to watch, I feel like I'm wasting time and I can't really scroll through channels anymore and just pick something random. I had much more freedom in the 90s to just watch whatever I wanted. Now I feel like I gotta be watching something new. I gotta start a series. I gotta watch this movie, I gotta watch that movie. It just feels like there was a little bit more just like enjoyment in watching things then when there was less to watch. When we didn't have phones to constantly show us these things coming out and watching short form content. There was more intention to sitting down to watch a comedy that like with Office Space, you could just sit down and enjoy it and be free of distraction. I think that's why comedies also have a problem now and really all movies is because it's so hard just to keep your attention. If you're not going to see it in theaters. You're looking at your phone, you're talking to your smart device. There are all these distractions that don't allow us to focus in. And a movie like Office Space does still require your attention. So it is hard for a movie like this to succeed by today's standards and go on to be as big of a hit as it is, as much of a staple as it is now, because we just don't have the attention span for a movie like Office Space with its dry comedy and workplace humor. So that is sad, man. To think a movie like Office Space wouldn't work by today's standards is really sad. I'm about to go watch all these movies after this just to feel my need to go back to the 90s. Moving out of the 90s 2001 saving Silverman was a comedy that came out and got pretty bad reviews. It only made $26 million against a budget of $22 million. And and I pulled an old review for Saving Silverman that was also published in 2001. This review comes to us from a guy named Ryan Buell. Published it on 3222001 on Penn State's website. So I think he was a movie reviewer for Penn State back in the 2000s. And I was like man, I just like going back and reading old reviews right when the movie came out. Because I do believe Saving Silverman is a great mid movie. An underrated comedy with Jason Bigs, Jack Black, Steve Zahn about them trying to save their friend Silverman from making a bad mistake and marrying a girl that they can't stand. So here is a review from 2001 saving Silverman is nothing but a washed up PG13 wannabe version of There's Something About Mary. The grotesque jokes and sexual humor just don't work. The sad thing about today's society is that anyone can get away with ripping off a movie. More than likely, Silverman will do well at the box office, but in a few years no one will remember it. However, Columbia Pictures isn't trying to make a decent film, it's just trying to cash in on other gross out comedies such as There's Something About Mary and American Pie. It looks to me like the producers took the screenwriter, placed them in a burlap bag and and beat him until he came up with this cinematic piece of crap. But then again, you get what you pay for. Poor Silverman needs more than Neil diamond to be saved from this bomb of a movie. Grade D minus Ryan from 2001's Penn State website went in hard on Saving Silverman. A couple of things he got wrong. He said, in a few years no one will remember it. This was published in 2001. It is 2025. I remember saving Silverman. I love this movie. A lot of great scenes in this movie, a lot of physical comedy, a lot of what makes Jack Black great at comedy are in this movie. And it's wild to think that he's saying that this movie was ripping off. There's something about Mary, which he mentioned it twice in American Pie. I think that's the connection between Jason Biggs, because looking back on it now, I think he got that wrong. I don't think this movie was trying to rip off those films whatsoever. And I don't even associate this with being a ripoff movie or trying to be something else. I feel like Saving Silverman is very uniquely itself. And the only argument he has is that it has Jason Biggs in both of them. So it just proves to you how wrong some people can be about a movie success. He also said that it was gonna do pretty well at the box office. It did do very well at the box office, but still it is a movie that people remember. And this review also allows me to take a moment and look in inwardly of movies I have ripped to shreds and think that maybe in 20 years someone will pull a clip from my podcast and say, look what this idiot said about this now cult classic. He said it was dull. He said it lacked imagination. He said 30 minutes of this movie could have been cut off. He said it's a waste of your time. You should only watch it in streaming services. So maybe sometimes I'll think about that. I'll try to be at times less harsh on movies that I think other people could find enjoyment in and think 20 years down the line. But again, I always speak from the heart. I speak with my feelings. I speak with my true intentions when reviewing movies. So hopefully an old review doesn't come back to bite me in the butt like it did for Ryan. But shout out to Ryan from Penn State in 2001. Close out the list with a couple of more from my childhood. Rounding out, the 2000s dude wears my car in the year 2000 was actually a pretty successful movie. I would say pretty big pivotal roles for both Ashton Kutcher and Sean Williams Scott. But that movie is so dumb it very much encompassed the comedy of the 2000s, which it was right on that line in 99 and 2000. So maybe it's Still a little bit of the remnants of the comedy from the 90s, but a movie with such a dumb premise of two dudes being too stoned and too messed up to not remember where they left their car, running into a group of hot chicks who are undercover spies going through a drive through and taunting the box and all the crazy characters that they encounter them trying to find the continuum trans functioner. It's just such a bizarre movie that would not succeed today. It would probably be a movie that I would give a review much like the guy did from Penn State and say this movie is another piece of crap. But for the time it worked. Although I don't think Dude, Where's My Car Is really a movie that I go back and revisit. I don't partake in the recreational activities that would probably enhance this movie and make it funnier. But it is a great mid movie from the 2000s. And finally from 2001, Super Troopers, which did not do that well at the box office. But this movie skyrocketed. I would say is one of the most successful DVDs from the 2000s that spawned a sequel that launched the Broken Lizard to create their entire cinematic universe to create more movies like Beer Fest, Slammin Salmon, which all feature a lot of the same cast. They direct these movies. This was a movie that was notoriously passed around in middle school and high schools across America. These guys have become legends because of this movie. They have made careers out of this that people, myself included. I've had the guys from Super Troopers on this podcast to talk about it. A movie that came out now 24 years ago still has this legacy and they're still making new movies. I enjoyed their last movie, Quasi, which was their first movie that went directly to streaming. It was on Hulu, didn't have a traditional theatrical release. So it's interesting to see them have to navigate that of not having what they have relied on a lot of their career of having titles in their filmography that haven't been the biggest at drawing a lot of numbers at the box office, but have developed a cult like following through people watching them on physical media. You don't have that anymore. So I would be curious to talk to them again just to see how they felt after that movie came out on the streaming and what kind of impact it actually made. Is it only important that people watch your movie by any means, whether they're paying for it, whether they're watching it for free? Do you only want people to consume your art or do you want to make the money like you could with physical copies. I mean, it's hard to say no, I don't want to make the money. But I think there's something to now just having your product be seen. When you spend so much time making your art, you just want to get it out to as many people as possible. Is that worth more now than having the DVD sales to rely on? Because you could just not put it out in theaters and try to do it the old school way, but then you get even less people watching it. So that is my list. There are some other honorable mentions like Baby Stay Out, Beethoven, Dennis the Menace, Mouse Hunt, even though that was a pretty successful movie at the box office. But movies like Richie Rich, Dudley Do Right or really every earnest movie, Ernest Scared Stupid in particular. Those movies would not succeed by today's standards. I'll come back and give my spoiler free review of Mickey 17.
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Ryan Seacrest
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Colleen Witt
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Young Pueblo
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Colleen Witt
Okay then.
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
Terms apply. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free Movie review of Mickey 17 this movie has nothing to do with Disney. Not that Mickey. Different Mickey. A much more disturbing Mickey. In a way, it is the new film from Bong Joon Ho. His first movie sins Parasite. Much anticipated in this room. Because man, I've been waiting for this movie to come out for so long. It's been delayed. It took forever just to get made. But it is. Here you have Robert Patson, who plays an expendable. He is a guy who is down on his luck, has a really bad financial investment with a dude who really screws him over. So his way to get out of it, it takes place in the year 2054. I believe he can go to this planet and become an expendable who doesn't really know what he's signing up for. But essentially they're going to make him do a bunch of harmful experiments and he dies time and time again. His entire conscience and memories are uploaded on this hard drive so that every time he dies, a version of himself actually comes back with those memories intact. So it's not just them reprinting an entirely new human that looks like him. It pretty much resembles him in every way. Each version is a little bit different, has a slightly different personality, but at the core of it, it is still Mickey who is kind of dumb but very lovable. And I think Robert Pattinson doesn't get enough credit for how good of a character actor he is, especially when it comes to accents. Mickey17 sounds unlike any other character he has ever done before. So whether it's the Lighthouse, whether it's good time, even going back to Twilight or Devil all the time too, that was another good Robert Pattinson movie. He just kind of surprises you in these different looks that he can give you, even doing Bruce Wayne in the Batman. And there's still some people who can't see Robert Pattinson as not the vampire guy. That was so long ago. That's so 2008, everybody. So this was a movie. Going into it I thought I was going to instantly love no matter what. I'll say I had a bit of a bias that given the director who has done some great movies, some of my favorite movies of all time, I would put Parasite in my top 15, especially of the last. Oh man. Thinking back, 2019 isn't five years ago now. That's the last six years in the past 10 years. Probably top 10 for me of my life. Probably 15 or top 20. That movie changed me. And Bong Joon Ho is known for his sci fi movies. He's known for his more realistic movies. He is really great at building worlds. And although this movie is based on a book, it still feels very original to me. So going into it, he is a type of director now that I'm gonna have that bias of like, man, I'm kind of a fanboy. I'm kind of gonna like anything that he does or appreciate it. But even with that bias going into it, I had to warm up to this story because it felt a lot different than what I was expecting. It felt different than anything I'd really seen in the sci fi genre, where I would say it took me a good 40 minutes to really settle into it. But once I was it, which sounds like a lot of time. Normally I say if you don't love a movie by those first 20 minutes, that you're gonna have a bad time. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy it in those first 20 minutes. It was just a lot of world building. And they kind of hop around in time because what you see in the trailer actually happens later in the story. So it kind of goes back and forth of him already on the planet to how he got to that planet, and then it kind of leads all back around. So those first 40 minutes, I was just trying to get used to Robert Pattinson's dialect, the character interactions, and just trying to get my grasp on the story. But once I was in about that 40 minute mark, I was totally in. And the movie's about 2 hours and 10 minutes, but by the end of it, I was really satisfied. I thought the sci fi elements were fantastic. Bong Joon Ho, I feel in this movie took inspiration from all of his films. One that I really loved, that he drew inspiration from was Okja, which he creates these very mythical creatures. And there are these animals, these alien type animals in Mickey 17 called Creepers. I thought that was amazing and unique. And in a world where we kind of just keep regurgitating everything sci fi, this felt fresh to me. Like I said, it is based on a book, but it feels very much original. And if you're going to want to go see something unlike you haven't seen before, and you don't want to take a risk on a movie like Mickey 17, then you can't say they're just making remake that. They're just throwing out another Star wars movie in the sci fi genre, you gotta check out what is out there in Bong Joon Ho. Whether it's this movie where he's drawing inspiration from Okja. I also saw a lot of inspiration from Snowpiercer in this. Maybe it's because it was an ice planet and also being on a vessel. In this case, it Takes place pretty much entirely on a ship, which sometimes when movies have limited locations, it gets a little bit boring. But there was a lot of places to explore in the ship. They go outside a bunch. Interacting with the creepers off and on the ship, I thought were great. And then there were even some Easter eggs from Parasite in this movie. A little bit of his movie, the Host. So it was kind of him borrowing and being inspired by himself. And I almost feel like he made Parasite, which got a lot of critical acclaim, won the Oscar, and now he is wanting to make movies that he's always wanted to make and being able to be a big nerd, which is awesome. I love it when nerds are filmmakers and are able to create these worlds and they have a lot of freedom now and what they are able to do. When you are a level of director that Bong Joon Ho is, but also just knows how to make a great story, knows how to make characters you root for, which by the end of this movie, you feel for Mickey 17 and all the crazy things that he encounters. And even though it's so futuristic and dystopian, there is some heart there. And there's a lot of comedy in it too, which I feel could turn some people off. Mark Ruffalo's character is a very eccentric one. And some of that stuff I could see people thinking like, oh, this is kind of dumb. What is Mark Ruffalo doing? But I think his character, much like a lot of Bong Joon Ho's characters, are used to get a message across, which every movie of his has that overall arching social and moral dilemma. Because this one does make a big statement on how people can take over a planet, or it could be a country and kicking out the people who are already there. It also makes a statement in a more sci fi way of human cloning and the Morales of that. Like, I started thinking about it, would I sign up for this? The hard part would be dying. And throughout the entire movie, they keep asking Mickey, like, what does it feel like to die? That's what everybody wants to know. And he struggles with answering that question. Obviously, it hurts. He gets more and more used to it as he gets through all the numbers, which that is why it's called Mickey 17. They number him each time after he dies, so he's Mickey 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And then whenever he hits 17, that is when something goes wrong and there are duplicates. And you see this all in the trailer, so it's not a spoiler, but it's that moral Dilemma of what happens when you have two of these people. Now, I don't know that I could be an expendable. Because, oh, man, some of the things that he has put through and the pain he must still feel. Because even though you come back with your memories intact and it's still you. And you no longer fear dying as much because you know you're going to come back. You still have to feel it. And sometimes we don't know how bad dying hurts because we can't really report back from those people. He can report back, and he knows the worst ways to die. But I think I would be open to them taking all my memories and putting them on a hard drive. Also, in a way, it made that idea seem a little bit more plausible, like it could happen and we're not. I don't know. With AI becoming so advanced, I feel like the first step would be like us putting some kind of chip in our brain where we can see things and have a computer in our brain. I think a level after that would be human printing. I mean, we have 3D printing, which whenever that first started, we were like, what is 3D printing? This sounds so weird and futuristic. But now kids in like high school are working with 3D printers and building things, and that's become a little bit more normal. 20 years, we start human printing. Right now, we're all like, oh, AI is going to replace everybody. It's going to take all our jobs. Once AI becomes a little bit more like, oh, that's the norm. So I don't know, man. But that's the other message of this movie and moral dilemma where this movie ranks on my favorite Bong Joon Ho films. Because I think my Robert Pattinson list is probably different. And that's a whole other episode I could get into. But I would say Mickey 17 is in my top five now. At number five, I would put the host. At number four, I would put Mickey 17. At number three, I would put Okja. At number two, I would put Snowpiercer with Chris Evans, which is fantastic. And at number one, I would put Parasite. If you aren't familiar with his work and go see Mickey 17 or planning to see it down the line and just want to get ahead of it. I would say start in that reverse order. I would say start with Parasite because I feel that is the one, even though it's in subtitles, which I love. What he said whenever he won the Oscar for that movie, saying that one inch barrier that people can't get over. I get over it you'll be exposed to a whole new world of films if you can just get over that 1 inch barrier and watch movies that aren't in your language. So aside from that, I think it's the most widely receptive of all of his movies and the one you can dive into and enjoy because the story in that movie is really powerful. It is so well done, shot beautifully. There's nothing bad, I would say, about Parasite. It is a rare 5 out of 5 movie in my opinion. Snowpiercer has a little bit more action. Also still has that moral dilemma of like social statuses. Oh those, those both are really good. I still say start with Parasite, then go to Snowpiercer and then Okja is a little bit more sci fi, a little bit more fun and comical. And then Mickey 17 is kind of right in between there too. It has a great deal of sci fi, has some comedy in it as well and then has, I wouldn't say a horror aspect to it, but there are some bloody and violent scenes here and there. And then the host, I believe, is just the all out great horror movie. So those are my top five of his movies. The sad part about this, even though the movie was number one at the box office making 19 million dollars, it had 118 million dollar budget. And that was the sad part is we went to the movie on a Saturday and I hadn't seen the theater this empty in a while. We got in line for snacks and there was nobody there. We got into a theater which normally when we go see a movie on opening weekend, it's pretty full. There were so many empty seats. I think I counted. There's probably four other people on our row. Maybe another four people on the row ahead of us. And that was it. This felt like a really slow time at the box office. So it's going to have a really hard time making that money back. It must feel kind of weird to have the number one movie in the country but only have made $19 million. Like before at a time where it was like when you're number one, you're making $100 million or even like $50 million to make $19 million. It's like, oh man, we're number one. But are we going to make any money off of this? But I'm still rooting for it. I think Robert Pattinson gives a really great performance. Maybe not his best performance of all time, but it's an entirely different look. So he's taken some risks there. I love it when an actor takes risks and do things that require them to act. Steven Yoon was also great in this for Mickey. 17. I give it four out of five expendables.
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Ryan Seacrest
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Debbie
Hi, this is Debbie, your blinds.com design consultant.
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Colleen Witt
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Young Pueblo
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Debbie
I'm here to help you with everything from selecting the perfect window treatments to.
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Colleen Witt
Mmm, I've got a complicated project.
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Debbie
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Colleen Witt
I didn't realize you did that.
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Debbie
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
Wow.
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Colleen Witt
I mean, I always thought I needed a designer to come to my home, but scheduling's always a Nightmare.
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Debbie
Not with blinds.com, we're on your schedule and there's no haggling, no pressure, no hidden fees either. Hmm.
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Colleen Witt
I just might have to do more.
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Debbie
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Colleen Witt
Okay then.
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Debbie
So the first room we're looking at.
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Colleen Witt
Is for guests coming.
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Debbie
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Colleen Witt
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Mary Kay McBrayer
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Ryan Seacrest
It's time to head down to Movie Mike's Trailer Park.
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
Another week and time to talk about another A24 movie coming out. I'm not trying to be an A24 fanboy, but when it comes to original ideas, ideas, interesting concepts, great trailers, A24 is right there at the top of the list when it comes to just movies that I never thought could be made. Sometimes I didn't know I wanted these movies. Death of a Unicorn, which we're about to talk about, is one of those movies. I'd say it's right up there with a 24 and neon that those are the studios that I look to when I want something that's not super mainstream. Even though I feel like those studios now are becoming mainstream because they are bigger. They do have movies in a lot of theaters at any given time. But still, compared to your Universals, your Disney's, they are on a much smaller scale. But a couple of parallels here because also Paul Rudd is in this movie. Will Poulter is in this movie. We've talked about them both recently in two different A24 movies. Paul Ruddy, he's going to be in that Tim Robinson movie Friendship Will Poulter was just talking about last week. He's going to be in warfare. This one stars Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega. They play a father and daughter duo. It is a horror comedy. They get caught between a retreat with a billionaire boss played by Richard E. Grant, and then this mythical unicorn appears. That could be, well, the key to living longer, the key to all these diseases, the cure to cancer, even eternal life. But then it brings up this moral dilemma. If you kill this unicorn and harvest it for parts, are you an evil person? It looks like Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega are going to try and stop the unicorn from dying, from being harvested for parts. But it also looks like this unicorn isn't going to go down lightly and going to fight back against the humans. A lot of thoughts in this trailer. It is pretty unique. But before I talk about it more, it is coming out soon on March 28th. Here is just a little bit of the death of a unicorn trailer. Unicorns used to be seen like these divine monsters because people fully believe that they could heal literally anything. It's an opportunity for immortality. We have a moral imperative to harvest every last one they're gonna kill. Called it. There's no negotiating with monsters. So that is the premise. I think this is going to make a statement on why we as humans can't have nice things. Because if you have something nice like a unicorn, you're going to have people who want to exploit it. You're going to have those who want to harvest it for parts and make money off this thing. Especially if it's the cure for cancer, the key to eternal life. This is why we can't have nice things. If there were actual unicorns in the world, or any mythical creature for that matter, we would try to find a way to harvest its parts. You see this right now. That's why we have endangered species. Because we can't be trusted as humans. We can't have nice things. So I think that's going to be the message here. Obviously it is a very wild premise. If you watch this trailer, there are moments that it feels like Jurassic park and instead of the T. Rex, you have the unicorn. Because there's a moment where Paul Rudd is running by this car and he's kind of looking overneath it. There are a couple of moments you have the scene Whenever Paul Rudd is running, he hides behind a car. It's at night, and the unicorn is creeping beside the car very much like the T. Rex would be breathing into the Jeep. Whenever they get caught in that situation in the first Jurassic park, you also have Jenna Ortega coming face to face with the unicorn. I don't think throughout this entire trailer, you see the unicorn in all of its glory, but in that moment, you see its mouth enter the frame. It's this very just, like, gnarly snout that looks much like a T. Rex's mouth would look with the teeth. It is growling. Looks like it's about to bite her head off. And that really gives me a lot of vibes of Jurassic park as well. So it's almost like you take Jurassic park, you remove the dinosaurs, and you add in the unicorn, which, if you think about the plot of Jurassic park, not only the first one, but in the Lost World, that is essentially kind of what I've been talking about so far is in the first movie, obviously, it was all about getting people to pay to go see the dinosaurs at the park. And then in the Lost World, you have these people trying to capture the dinosaurs to be able to use them and exploit them. And then later down the line in the franchise, people turning them into weapons. So that is the thing about us as humans is we can't have anything nice. We're gonna either harvest it for parts or want to use it in our military. Thinking about other instances where unicorns have been in movies. In the Harry Potter series, you see Voldemort drinking the blood of a unicorn. And in the Harry Potter world, that is like the ultimate crime, killing a unicorn, because that means, well, it could destroy a kingdom, tarnish the food supply, turn the water to sand. It puts this curse on anybody who kills a unicorn. So you don't want to do that. I really like the pairing of Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd. I don't think I've watched a bad Jenna Ortega movie. Even though Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice wasn't. It was never going to be as good as the original. I enjoyed it. A lot of people ripped that movie to shreds. My only thing with Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice is it kind of just came and went. There was a lot of anticipation because it was a Legacy sequel. I thought the movie itself, the plot was kind of all over the place, but I found that movie enjoyable in theaters. And overall, I left thinking okay wasn't a total cash grab. I think the fact that Tim Burton was still a part of it and it still very much felt like a Tim Burton film. It just felt a little bit too overly polished at times and almost like it had a little bit too of a big studio feel to it. When the first one felt obviously more novel because it was back in the 80s, but it almost felt like it was more Tim Burton being very punk rock and making the first Beetlejuice. This one just felt like, okay, we got to check a lot of boxes. A lot of the special effects weren't exactly the same. I guess there's just some charm into the stuff from the 80s not looking as good. So it was almost like the gloss of a big studio with more of a budget took away from the heart and soul of that movie. But overall I enjoyed that. I just can't recall a Jenna Ortega movie that I've seen and thought, you know, that wasn't very good. I really liked her in the screen movies. Said she's not going to be a part of those anymore. She had a pretty decent role in X, one of my favorites of hers, even though it is kind of a dark, not depressing movie, but not obviously about the brightest of subjects to Fallout, which was a movie on Max. It's about a school shooting and the effects that it has on the students who were there that day that weren't injured, but they kind of have to live with that trauma for the rest of their lives. A pretty simple story obviously packs a lot of emotion in that. And she's really good in that. And she's only 22 years old. That is wild. She's already been in so many big movies, has more coming out. And to think that all of her best movies are probably still ahead of her. That is wild. Obviously you have Wednesday on Netflix, which I'm excited for that to come back this year. And then Paul Rudd, I feel like he's in that point of his career where he's just doing whatever. He has the Marvel money. Even though people didn't like the last Ant man movie, I enjoyed that movie in theaters. I have not revisited it since. I don't really think I need to. I thought it was a mid Marvel movie. I didn't think it was terrible. But now with King the Conqueror not being a thing anymore, there's not a reason to revisit that movie. So he has that money. He has that Marvel bag. I feel like he can do smaller movies like this and Friendship and kind of do whatever he wants at this point, which it's a really big deal for an actor of his caliber to do. A movie like this because I heard Nicole Kidman whenever we went to go see Baby Girl, which is another A24 movie, talking about how it's a much different set. They are usually longer days because they have less days to shoot. And when they are there and rolling, they are trying to get this entire movie just cranked out. I think Baby Girl was probably filmed in like a month's time. Not all together, but I think the total amount of days was probably a month's worth. I would have to imagine. Probably the same with the movie. Like the Death of a Unicorn, but it looks like it could be fun. Hopefully some laughs in there. I can't wait to see the full reveal of the unicorn. I like the fact that they just kind of teased it up a little bit, much like you would any other monster movie, even in the first Jurassic park movies, where they really just kind of tease you with the T. Rex and you don't really get them until that third act. So hopefully they have something in store for us like that. Death of Unicorn is coming out in theaters on March 28, and that was.
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Ryan Seacrest
This week's edition of Movie Mike's Trailer Park.
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
You bet it was. And that's gonna do it for another week here on the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week this week. I'm going over to Tick Tock. I did post a bonus episode last week with a full Oscar review. I posted a clip over on Tick Tock and this person, it was kind of a nice troll. I've had some mean comments on tick tock and YouTube primarily, but I'm gonna shout him out anyway. Maybe I'll shout out a good comment as well, but Disco Duck on Tick Tock wrote talking about me said I wouldn't trust this character to fix a tuna fish sandwich, let alone the biggest award show of the year. So this was in reference of a clip I posted of me talking about how I could fix the Oscars. And it was just an idea to make the entire show move a little bit faster because what was supposed to be a three hour show turned into an almost four hour show. And I just said add a play clock. As soon as that play clock expires, your film gets a penalty. If you get too many penalties throughout the course of the night, the movie behind you gets a chance to win. And I also felt like they should have a little bit more discretion on the amounts of votes that each of these movies get. Much like you would on election night. Show the percentages of what is leading. So Disco Duck, I know you're trying to be mean towards me by saying you wouldn't trust me to fix you a tuna sandwich. And I know in the clip I did look ridiculous. I was wearing my tuxedo hoodie and I was also wearing the straight hoodie over my headphones so it looks like I have a giant Spaceballs helmet on. So Disco Duck, I know you were trying to troll me, but that wasn't that bad. And I don't want to challenge you because I know you'll come out and just start poking more and more. But I'm okay with that one. Sometimes I just have that anticipation of going to look at the comments because I'm like, man, I gotta be in the right headspace. Because you never know. It's always those negative comments that just kind of stay with you. Like I can think back to random comments that I got like months ago and you're like, man, those. Those just kind of cut through. But Gray Street Glass also commented on this Tick tock and said Mike D. Thoughts on the Demi loss? Sad face. And I said in that episode, the recap episode, I was sad for him. I was really pulling for Demi Moore and the substance as a whole to win more awards at the Oscars. I was glad she won the Golden Globe because that was a big moment for her. The Golden Globe was the first ever award she won in acting ever. So I just wanted to see her hold that Oscar. Take it home for a horror movie. As much as an advocate as I am for horror movies, modern horror to prove to people it is a valid genre and we need to have more Oscars come to us out of horror movies. So that is one shout out positive, one shout out negative. Thank you everybody for listening this week. Hope you return next week. I hope you tell a friend. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.
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Ryan Seacrest
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Young Pueblo
Love at first swipe. I highly doubt it. Reality TV and social media have love all wrong. So what really makes relationships last? On this episode of Dope Labs, poet and relationship expert Young Pueblo breaks down the psychology of love and provides eye opening insights and advice we all need.
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
It's a big realization moment that you should not be postponing your happiness. Like your greatest happiness is not necessarily going to come from a relationship your partner, they should add to your happiness, but your happiness is really coming from within you.
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Young Pueblo
Listen to Dope labs on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Are you hungry? Colleen Witt here and Eating While Broke is back for Season four every Thursday on the Black Effect Podcast Network. This season we've got a legendary lineup serving up broke dishes and even better stories. On the menu we have Tony Baker, Nick Cannon, Melissa Ford, October London and Carrie Harper. Howie turning into Big Macs into big moves. Catch Eating While Broke every Thursday on the Black Effect podcast network. IHeartRadio app Apple podcast Wherever you get your favorite shows, come hungry for Season four.
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Brendan Patrick Hughes
My name is Brendan Patrick Hughes, host of Divine Intervention. This is a story about radical nuns in combat boots and wild haired priests trading blows with J. Edgar Hoover in a hellbent effort to sabotage a war. J. Edgar Hoover was furious. He was out of his mind and he wanted wanted to bring the Catholic left to its knees.
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Ryan Seacrest
Listen to Divine intervention on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Mary Kay McBrayer
I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast the Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told. This season explores women from the 19th century to now. Women who were murderers and scammers, but also women who were photojournalists, lawyers, writers and more. This podcast tells more than just the brutal, gory details of horrific acts. I delve into the good, the bad, the difficult and all the nuance I can find because these are the stories that we need to know to understand the intersection of society, justice and the fascinating workings of the human psyche. Join me every week as I tell some of the most enthralling true crime stories about women who are not just victims, but heroes or villains, or often somewhere in between. Listen to the greatest true crime stories ever told on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.