#530 - Space Jam 2 + We Pitch Our Own Pop Culture Mash-Up Movie Ideas

This week on the podcast, Ray Harrington joins us to talk about the gigantic Warner Bros. commercial that is Space Jam: A New Legacy!
We discuss how movies like this came to be, the concept of pop culture mash-ups (or "IP mash-ups"), the history of this phenomenon, and the future of making movies based on bringing known characters together.
We close the show with our segment "Pitch Doctors," where we each pitch our OWN ideas for pop culture mash-up movies, including our favorite franchises and characters (Back to the Future, Ducktales, The Peanuts, The Fast and the Furious, the Ninja Turtles, Scooby Doo and MANY more are all in play)!
- Chuck

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#463 - Chris Graue, the Amazing Johnathan Documentary, and So-Bad-They're-Good Movies

We start out this week with a quick greeting, and then dive into a Skype interview with our pal Chris Graue. Chris has directed music videos and promo videos and any other needed video things for a huge number of punk and ska bands. We talk with him about his start and his involvement in the music scene. What a good dude! After that winds up, we are joined by another good dude - Ray Harrington! We discuss some comedy and improv news (Seinfeld! Oswalt! Middleditch/Schwartz!), then riff on the Doogie Howser, MD reboot on Disney Plus. We then discuss Ben Berman's Hulu documentary on The Amazing Johnathan. A fascinating film! After a quick toss to RI Food Fights' own Jim Nellis, we discuss some films I watched recently that weren't great. This leads me to ask the question "When does a movie go from bad to so-bad-it's-good?" A fun discussion follows!
- Brad
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#444 - "With Ray and Derek" - The Podmas Castacular

We dive into the archives this week, bringing up a blast from the....wait, these weren't our archives. We introduce a long-forgotten episode of the podcast "With Ray and Derek," which features comedians Ray Harrington and Derek Furtado doing a 70's-style Christmas variety show (including an appearance from our pal Brian Beaudoin) from a few Christmases past. We think it's too good NOT to share, so we recorded a wraparound and called it our show! We're like Buzzfeed!
- Brad

#386 - Halloween 2018

We are joined this year for our annual Halloween episode by our pal Ray Harrington. We open (somewhat incongruously) with a long discussion of comic strips and their appeal. We plug some upcoming shows, then Chuck recaps our Halloween season so far, including Chuck and Ray's Vermont trip and some fun movies we've seen. We segue into a discussion of horror movies and stories that have stayed with us long after the stories end. We discuss the new Halloween movie and also try to convince Ray to watch the Paranormal Activity series. After that, Chuck and Ray try to convince me to watch Eli Roth's horror documentary. Chuck tells a bizarre story from his youth that relates to a current political race in the area. Ray tells us about his experience with Halloween as a youth and how the relationship has changed up to and including fatherhood. We revisit the topic of horror stories that have stayed with us. Chuck talks about the original Pet Sematary movie and reveals Gina's amazing detective skills, then we close with a discussion about adapting novels to movies.
- Brad