Gleaming The Tube

We're back! This time Kevin and Mike tackle 1987's "Hard Ticket to Hawaii", a direct-to-video-and-late-night-premium-cable action film featuring a mutant snake puppet, a frisbee-related beheading, enough former Playmates to fill a dozen Whitesnake videos, and one of the wildest skateboard-related sequences ever committed to celluloid. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Back to the Future is a beloved science fiction comedy movie from the 1980s with a surprisingly large amount of skateboarding in it. Kevin and Mike discuss how much they like this movie, Kevin's disappointed with the sequels, Mike's desire to emulate Alex P. Keaton in his scholastic career, the script, the cast, the obligatory lamentation that we are now further away from 1985 than 1985 was from 1...

In our efforts to find a spooky movie with some skateboarding we settled on the found footage horror anthology film "V/H/S Viral" - a film we did not enjoy but that does have a whole segment devoted to skateboarders who fight monster cultists in Tijuana. We also wound up discussing a lot of other scary movies that we *do* like such as Halloween, Friday the 13th, The Shining, Poltergeist, Paranorma...

This week's skateboard movie is Crystal Moselle's Skate Kitchen from 2018, about a teenage girl who befriends a group of female skateboarders in New York City by connecting with them via Instagram. It's inspired by the real group of female skaters who call themselves "Skate Kitchen", and features the group's members playing fictionalized versions of themselves. Also discussed: gatekeeping, poseurs...

Kevin and Mike tackle 1987's Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol which, along with the usual hijinx from Mahoney and the gang, features an extended skateboarding sequence with the Bones Brigade. A terrible movie with some pretty great skateboarding. Also discussed: Ninjas, backdoor pilots, stunt doubles, The Facts of Life, that episode of The Brady Bunch about Ken Berry and the three orphan kids,...

Kevin and Mike take on their first documentary film: Helen Stickler's "Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator" tells the story of Mark "Gator" Ragowski, a skateboarding icon who is currently serving life in prison for murder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's 1995 and the impossibly rich kids of Beverly Hills are playing matchmaker, wearing Dr. Seuss hats, and navigating teenage life in Amy Heckerling's Clueless! Kevin and Mike tackle the role skateboard kid Travis Birkenstock (played by Breckin Meyer) plays in the film and how that maps to the experience of being "a skateboard kid" in high school. Also discussed: Jane Austen, the stupid late 90s...

Kevin and Mike kick things off by watching Josh Brolin in the 80s skateboard classic Thrashin'! They discuss the proper amount of badass eye makeup to wear to a joust, why Meat Loaf was a weird choice to record the theme song to a movie about skateboarding, Kevin's lack of appreciation for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and whether or not skating off a ramp at 64 miles per hour is something that shoul...

Kevin and Mike lay out what they plan on doing with the show and generally test out their microphones. Mike talks about skateboarding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.