30something Movie Podcast

Episode #112: "It's Not Us... It's Roy" | Overboard (1987)

Joanna is a wealthy woman who lives aboard her yacht with her husband Grant. When she wants some work done on the boat, she hires carpenter Dean Proffitt. After an argument, she refuses to pay him. Later when she falls overboard and suffers amnesia from a bump on the head, Dean tricks her into coming back home with him and pretends she is the mother of his four children.

Episode #111: "You Down With OTT?" | Over The Top (1987)

The world meets nobody halfway, least of all Lincoln Hawk. He's a hard-working truck driver who's driven to bond with his estranged son and does so through truck driving and arm wrestling. It's a rocky start, but we won't leave you with a cliffhanger. He must go all the way to the arm wrestling championship in Vegas to keep his son. It's over the top. And that's the title of the movie too.

Episode #110: "Your Feet's Too Big" | Harry and the Hendersons (1987)

Let's say you hit an animal in the woods. Do you lash it to the roof of the car and bring it home? Well, if you enjoy roadkill cuisine... sure! But if you're the Henderson family returning home from a camping trip, you'll either come to regret that decision... or you might just have your life changed by it.

Episode #109: "Crapping You Negative" | Raising Arizona (1987)

When biology and the prejudices of others conspire to keep H.I. and Ed childless, what do they do? Steal a baby, of course. Now they're embroiled in a scheme that involves Huggies, the Federal B.I., The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse, blackmailing best friends, Dr. Spock, and two convicts who released themselves on their own recognizance. It must be Raising Arizona!

Episode #108: "Goodnight, Sweetheart" | Three Men and a Baby (1987)

Our first delivery of 1987 is Three Men and a Baby. Three bachelors have their lives turned upside down when a new woman appears. At first they try to change her... but it's their lives that end up transformed.

Episode #107: "There Are Two O's in Goose" | Top Gun (1986)

The best of the best come together to make themselves better... and when they do, they sit around and talk about Top Gun. This podcast is unpredictable. And dangerous.

Episode #106: "Boom, Shake Shake the Room" | The Manhattan Project (1986)

Paul Stephens is a brilliant high school student who decides to build an atomic bomb in order to teach a lesson to weapons researcher Dr. John Mathewson, who has hidden his top secret lab in the middle of Ithaca, New York. Paul takes his show on the road to the National Science Fair, but is nearly intercepted by the military. Can Paul unmask the secret government facility in time, or will it blow up in his face?

Episode #105: "One With the Force" | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.

Episode #104: "War Is Hell" | Platoon (1986)

"Elias was a crusader. Now, I got no fight with any man who does what he's told, but when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. And I ain't gonna allow that in any of you. Not one." Platoon.

Episode #103: "Lend Me Your Ears" | Blue Velvet (1986)

She might've worn blue velvet, but that didn't really change how we felt about this movie. We came away from this one not hating or loving David Lynch... just realizing that he might not be our cup of tea. John and Pat talk about deconstructing American life, threnodies, and Laura Dern.