DISASTERPIECE

SPIELBERG?? ON DISASTERPIECE?? If you’re asking this question, it’s obvious you’ve never heard of 1941 , Steve Spielberg’s oddly horny and decidedly unfunny World War II comedy. But Justin and Steve can’t fight this war alone, so they’ve drafted DISASTERPIECE legend and Spielberg expert Paul Ramsdell to help them tackle this edition of THE WORST OF THE BEST. Join the boys as they try to figure out...

If these Cops are Rockin’… DO COME A KNOCKIN’!! Because it’s time for an episode of COP ROCK! Justin and Steve are back on the beat and back to covering their favorite TV show of all time: Steven Bochco’s hard-edged cop drama that’s also a full-on musical. Episode 7: Cop-A-Feeliac is the grittiest, darkest episode yet. But as the boys discover, even in the darkest hour of Cop Rock, there’s still t...

It’s time to talk about Dog Star Man—and we don’t mean Stan Brakhage’s classic experimental film series. We’re talking Tatum and JUPITER ASCENDING! Justin and Steve launch a new series, The Worst of the Best , a deep dive into the biggest whiffs by some of the greatest filmmakers of all time. And the boys kick things off with the Wachowski siblings’ JUPITER ASCENDING. A modern sci-fi fairy tale fr...

The birds are back!!! And we couldn’t be less excited about it. But we ARE excited to have Rollie Williams (Climate Town) back on the show. And not only is Rollie back for his 3rd Birdemic movie, but he’s here for the launch of a brand-new format for the pod… a commentary track! Watch along with the boys as they watch Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle for the very first time. Or maybe just listen along, ’caus...

Sequel Summer might be coming to an end, but not before Justin and Steve record a sequel to their episode about the sequel to PREDATOR, PREDATOR 2, and talk about one ugly motherf*&#@r of a movie: THE PREDATOR. But unlike the Predator franchise, we’re actually bringing back our big star! Legendary radio host (and Justin’s dad), David Jones! David and the boys crash-land back in 2018, when the...

The Blues Brothers are back! Well, at least one of them is. But this time, there’s a kid! And everyone else is old! This week, Justin and Steve put on their dark shades and sunglasses to cover 1998’s BLUES BROTHERS 2000. But it wouldn’t be a true Blues Brothers episode unless we put the band back together, so this week the boys are joined by musician (and Steve’s actual former bandmate) Stephen We...

Today, the original Nokia cell phone is more of a fable than a product, but back in 2003, the cell phone market wasn’t yet dominated by a black rectangle, and ingenuity was everywhere. Which is why the former pulp manufacturer Nokia launched the N-Gage, a cellphone/gaming-device combo, in an effort to take down a little-known company called Nintendo. And since you’ve probably owned a Game Boy or D...

Once again, we’ve got more cops, more rock, and more Randy Newman sweating his butt off while playing the piano. It’s Cop Rock Episode 6 - Oil of Ol’Lay . This may be Justin and Steve’s sixth Cop Rock assignment, but this time the chief is sticking them with a new partner and resident musical expert, Ellen Gutoskey. She’s here to help the boys understand how musical logic works and conduct a full...

Did you know that Coca-Cola once changed the flavor of Coke and called it New Coke? Well, if you were a red-blooded American soda drinker in the mid-1980s, you definitely knew about it, and you were most likely very angry that it happened. This week, Justin and Steve go on a globe-trotting soda taste test while exploring one of the weirdest corporate decisions ever made in an effort to fix a probl...

IT'S SEQUEL SUMMER!! And we're kicking it off with a sequel to Steven Spielberg's generation-defining hit, JAWS . It's JAWS 3-D ! That's right! The shark is back. Or it's a new shark... we're not sure. Either way, it's here with a boatload of cheap '80s 3-D thrills designed to make you scream but more likely to leave you laughing. Justin and Steve put on their wetsuits to explore the deepest reach...

Nukie is on vacation this week, so Justin and Steve are doing something a little different. Instead of the boys taking a deep dive into a DISASTERPIECE, they're letting you take a deep dive into them! It's the first AN EVENING WITH JUSTIN & STEVE . The boys will interview each other about their own personal artistic disasters, disappointing childhood toys, calamitous family vacations, and what...

Yup yup!! Disasterpiece is in full effect this week as Justin and Steve breakdance and break down Vanilla Ice’s 1991 star vehicle, Cool as Ice . This steamless riff on Romeo and Juliet is a soggy mess that didn’t do Vanilla Ice, or anyone involved, any favors. But just like how the movie’s charmless lead is able to steal a nice girl away from her boyfriend, this film somehow landed the Academy Awa...

The boys are back with another episode of Steven Bochco's Cop Rock . If you're reading this, you know the deal: it's a gritty '90s cop show that also happens to be a musical. Like, a real musical. There isn't much else to say at this point, except that Justin and Steve were very happy to discover that Cop Rock Episode 5, "The Cocaine Mutiny," guest-stars Gina Gershon. Watch Cop Rock Ep. 5 - The Co...

WE’RE BACK!!! And the boys are covering our third animated feature film, WE’RE BACK! A DINOSAUR’S STORY . It’s a mammoth-sized flop that was so incomprehensible, not even the dino-craze of 1993, or STEVEN SPIELBERG’S name on the poster, could save it from extinction. With a star-studded cast that includes John Goodman, Jay Leno, Rhea Perlman, Martin Short, Walter Cronkite, Julia Child, and Lisa Si...

This week, Justin and Steve take a trip to the underworld to talk about one of their all-time favorite DISASTERPIECES: Empire of the Dark . It’s a rip-roaring, demon-slaying, hellhound-filled ’80s action movie starring a guy who looks like the physical incarnation of the city of Chicago. The boys do their best to unlock the mystery of writer, director, and leading man Steve Barkett, whose all-too-...

Justin and Steve take their first real look at a reality TV DISASTERPIECE by heading down to Kid Nation , a show where kids are forced to build their own society from scratch. To make things even more dangerous, they have to do it in an abandoned Old West town. Between real natural hazards, filthy conditions, and feats of strength that would make even the most seasoned Survivor alumni sweat, the b...

Derek Savage's Cool Cat Saves the Kids is almost impossible to explain. On the surface, it’s a feature-length kids’ movie starring a talking cat who helps his friends deal with bullies. But underneath is something much more sinister and corrupt that has Steve and Justin convinced that Cool Cat might actually be a harbinger of doom, here to signal the end of times (or maybe he’s just a weird guy in...

By this point, you know that Cop Rock is a gritty police TV show that is also, somehow, a musical. And if you knew about Cop Rock before listening to this podcast, it’s probably because of this week’s episode, “A Three Corpse Meal,” and not because of the insane title. Steve and Justin are finally talking about—and singing along with—“The Baby Merchant (Tots-Я-Us).” It’s one of the weirdest episod...

Chuck Norris is gone. But in his wake, he left behind countless roundhouse kicks, thousands of bad jokes, the best Conan O’Brien bit of all time, and a handful of bad-to-okay movies. There is no better way for Justin and Steve to talk about the highly problematic man who should have just stayed a meme than by partnering up and investigating the scene (obviously without a warrant). 1995’s Top Dog i...

Crank the theme, Randy! It's COP ROCK time! Justin and Steve are back on the beat to cover the third episode of Steven Bocho's ill-fated, gritty musical cop show COP ROCK. The boys are three episodes in, and they still can't believe their ears and eyes. Subscribe to join us on our journey through one of the most insane shows ever put on the air. Check out more from Justin here: justindodd.rocks Ch...

What’s more Irish than a mint-flavored milkshake? Lots of things! But aside from Wendy’s baked potato, the McDonald’s Shamrock Shake is the most Irish thing you can order at a fast food restaurant. This week, Justin and Steve sit down to do a live taste test of the world’s only Irish-themed dessert and learn about its humble beginnings—and how it might have actually saved a bunch of kids’ lives. T...

EMERGENCY EPISODE! The boys call an emergency episode to talk about MERCY, a movie that came and went faster than Chris Pratt’s lovable era. Steve and Justin have a million questions about this Philip K. Limp Dick entry in the hard sci-fi genre, like: “Is this pro- or anti-AI?”, “Why did Rebecca Ferguson agree to this?”, and “WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED, ANDY DWYER??” Luckily, Judge Maddox herself is h...

The boys are going back to where it all began to check in on their pal, QUIGLEY , the heaven-sent Pomeranian reincarnation of Gary Busey. A lot has changed since Steve and Justin launched the Disasterpiece franchise with QUIGLEY , including the meteoric rise of LONGLEGS director Osgood Perkins, who is somehow the second lead in this faith-based family film. Will this K-9-of-kindness kids’ adventur...

COP ROCK!! If you listened to our episode about the pilot of the gritty ’90s musical cop show COP ROCK, you know that Justin and Steve fell in love with the boys in blue who sing the blues. So they’re heading back out on the beat to cover the second episode of this mismatched genre mash-up, titled “Ill-Gotten Gaines.” Will the second episode be as fun as the pilot? Will the songs still come out of...

DISASTERPIECE IS BACK! This week, the boys are taking a look at the cult classic KILLING AMERICAN STYLE from SAMURAI COP director Amir Shervan. Robert Z’Dar leads this domestic thriller that is unfortunately light on action (or anything exciting, really) and heavy on the ZZZZZZZZs. The charismatic gentlemen Justin and Steve may have had to fight their way through this wet noodle of an action movie...