You have used your eyes to ingest far more than the FDA mandated Maximum Ocular Hot Dog Intake (2 franks/day). Letās give them a break and switch to cramming tubed meats straight into your earholes. Itās Podcasting Day! Today the illustrious David Bell arrived on a palanquin carried by six fit eunuchs cut solely by natural causes (the rarest and most prized of all) to grace us with his royal presence.
You might know him from Gamefully Unemployed, the excellent podcast empire he co-dominates with the cruel but beautiful Tom Reimann. Whether itās Story Mode or Hype Cast, We Just Watchedā¦ or Fox Mulder is a Maniac, he casts pods so frequently you honestly have no excuse not to have heard and loved one by now. I would not admit to that in public if I were you, Iād just correct it right away.
We had a simple but powerful prompt for David: Whatās the worst movie that you unironically love?
He brought Miami Connection, 1987 Floridaās love letter to electric guitars, ninjas, and friendship.
Brockway brought Equilibrium, the himboās treatise on likeā¦ how art is pretty good and stuff.
Seanbaby brought Traxx, an absolute lunaticās smeared suicide note of a film.
Words cannot do it justice, which is too bad since thatās all we used on this podcast.
Listen to it with both ears so it feels like we have you surrounded! Then please subscribe at your preferred service, donāt forget to leave us a review, and tell a friend or respected enemy about us. We really need your help to grow this podcast, and those are by far the best things you can do for us, who have given you so much and only ever asked for more in return.
11 replies on āPodcasting Day: The Worst Movie You Love, with David Bell šā
This is two podcasting days in a row (on a Friday and Monday so no written content for four days now) and in order to enjoy this one I have to watch 4.5 hours of movies and listen to an hour of podcast. I love you guys, but Iām exhausted.
Thereās a lot to unpack here, especially since it looks like somebody else jumped in to immediately agree with you. So letās talk this through. Weāre still feeling out how to do this thing. Some of what youāre saying is unfair, some might be a misunderstanding, and some seems like problems we can fix.
No written content for four days is unfair. We do not update on the weekends. Thatās not something that is even on the table. Weāre two guys running this whole thing, plus one regular article contributor, no staff. Thatās it. We donāt even take the weekend off ā I usually layout and program the site on Sundays, and we record or have community events on Saturdays. I get one day off every two weeks if I keep totally current and there are no extra project. I didnāt have any days off for the past month. Two podcasts in a row is TWO days without written content, on the days when there could possibly be content.
Are you upset with them being in a row? That might be a misunderstanding, and it might be something we can fix. The podcast roves throughout the week because each of our days is themed, and we didnāt want to lose a day. So it landed on Friday last week and Monday this week, but the next isnāt for ten days. Itās still a once weekly podcast ā weāre not upping the frequency. Is it better if theyāre on a regular day instead? Or do you have a problem with us doing a weekly podcast at all?
You having to watch 4.5 hours of movies to enjoy the podcast is hopefully a misunderstanding. That is, if I assume you havenāt listened to it yet. Ideally you shouldnāt have to watch the movies to enjoy a podcast about them. Lots of podcasts about media do it that way, the goal is to either give you reasons to watch the movie, play the game, read the book, or else give you enough grounding about the movie in the podcast so you can enjoy us talking about it anyway. Now, the question of whether or not weāre pulling that off in this episode is a different thing. Like last weekās was about an impossible to find book. You shouldnāt have had to read the book to enjoy the podcast. Do you feel lost here? Should we do a better job of summarizing and explaining the movies? Was it just too many movies to bring up ā should we limit it to one?
Help us figure this thing out.
Agreed
Iām assuming youāre agreeing with Jesse above, and are unhappy with the podcast. If so can you read my reply and give me a couple answers? Itāll help us refine our process.
Iām just being a bitch because I donāt like podcasts. I get plenty of great content here for a ridiculously low price and I have no reason or right to complain. Iām sorry.
Personally, I usually donāt get an hour to listen to the podcasts usually until the weekend, so a Monday podcast drop feels like sacrificing an article I want to read right now for an IOU to future me.
But there just might be bigger problems in the world than not getting a new article to read on a random Mondayā¦.
I would throw out National Treasure 2 as a mainstream one, as it made me become the first person to literally unironically roflol, and Food Fight!, the utterly broken cgi disaster, which I foisted on people like it was the video from the Ring.
The latter also has the benefit of a multidimensionally fascinating backstory of its creation and a level of total failure that profoundly rewarded the hubris, gall, and sociopathy of attempting to make a unvarnished product placement vehicle that both claimed to be a Pixar challenger and prominently featured incredibly poorly animated panty shots of its cat-girl romantic lead.
Dear Lord, Miami Connectionā¦ The movie is justā¦never has a martial arts movie made so little sense when it wasnāt meant to be a comedy, and had so many annoying people. When I saw it several months back, I wanted to throw bricks at every single character and was rooting for the ninjas.
Hell, that āAgainst the Ninjasā song doesnāt even make sense unless, in that universe, itās just understood that there are a lot of evil ninjas in Miami; which would also make them terrible ninjas (which they are to lose to those dorksā¦).
I do prefer the articles, but Iāll happily take an extra podcast or two if it means new weekly material from the venerable Seanbaby, along with all the talent that Cracked.com ever had and apparently ever will have.
And I have seen Traxx, thankfully before you gave away the part where Robert Davi blew himself up with his own flatulence. That caught me off guard to the extent that I missed the next 5 minutes of the movie because I simply couldnāt stop laughing.
Brockway, have you watched Best of the Worst by Red Letter Media? They watch awful movies and then make fun of them in a panel. (They actually have a Miami Connection episode.) One guy tries to sum up the movie and they make jokes about all the insane things in it for a half hour. They have the benefit of being able to show clips as itās a YouTube show but I donāt think Iād enjoy it less without them. I have never watched a single movie featured on BOTW (save for KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park because of an old roommate with an unhealthy obsession) but I still never miss an episode because of the guysā personalities. That might be a good jumping off point if youāre looking for something that already works.
Miami Connection is a lot easier to watch if you see the Rifftrax version.