SoL-Mates: Love and MST3K

This episode ended up a touch longer than normal, but that’s only because we’re such a fan of teenage stranglers. No – people who strangle teenagers. Wait – this is coming out all wrong. *backs out of room* *turns off lights* Strangling semantics; life with Mikey; barf medium; Jeff gets defensive – just like an only child; Devori’s Wide Wide World of Serial Killers; hysterical feedback loops; our...

This week, we talk about a movie about beatniks that inexplicably has no beatniks in it. Seriously. Not a beatnik to be seen. There’s a crooner. Some juvenile delinquents, maybe. But we didn’t see one beret. Nor did anyone snap. And we watched really carefully. Host segments: You Might Be A Beatnik; do these people have parents?; Tony Travis is The One; dill comma whole; hungover children; Harry’s...

This episode, we're delving into one of our favorite Rifftrax Lives - Jack the Giant Killer! Along the way, we find we just can't help bringing up Samantha Fox...again. Listen as Devori is slowly driven mad by her own childhood existential crises and her fear of 1960s-era Disney animation. You can also audibly hear the moment Jeff is reminded that Birdemic exists. Host segments: the pragmatics of...

Magical May™ continues with the Bert I. Gordon clunker (or banger, depending on to whom you speak) The Magic Sword. More importantly, this is the episode when we FINALLY explain broasting to Jeff. Host segments: durty Joel; a satchel of Richards; the logic of circulating the tapes; SLP; friend zone; Sybil Wick; The One Where They Pause Riff MVP to Explain Broasting to Jeff. Please remember to like...

It's officially Magical May ™ here at SoL-Mates, and we celebrate it by *checks notes* listening to Jeff talk about how much he wants to nail Samantha Fox. Mostly we're just amazed how much we relate to Kor when we come out the other side. Host Segments: The Wizard Chigur; missing David Bowie tracks; manticore padding; we don't get this kingdom; Teddy Fuxpin; Joel holds MST3K in an iron fist; Kor...

The SoL-Mates were reunited for this episode, and it feels soooooo good. Join your favorites and a special guest as they discuss Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders. This one is really a feast for the ears because...well...there's Jello shots. This means there's 100% more mouth-sounds in this episode, and we didn't charge you a penny for them. Host segments: Emo Phillips visits a Renaissance faire;...

AAAAH. WE'RE HUGE...fans of this episode. Well, some of us are. What does it mean to be amazing? Colossal? A man? More importantly - how does someone who decides to bull-charge an atom bomb end up being SO WHINY? Host segments: only rich kids get vitamins; The Great Hasting's Rent-Off; save me bomb; Joe goes there; Jeff comes from a long line of broads; Amazing Colossal Man 2: The Raging Nudge; Th...

We're tackling an MST3K classic, and the take-away is WE ALL WANNA BE A DANCER! We dissect the doings of Michele, Buzz, and Critter, and marvel and the discomfort of a love triangle with the oldest greaser WITH THE WORST PLANS EVER. Also, be sure to listen to the end for our #TryPod recommendations. We'd love to hear your recommendations on Twitter or on Facebook - what podcasts make you happy? Ho...

We wanted to talk about hard-boiled detectives, hysterical dames, and the pseudo-scientific origins of the modern Prometheus myth, but mostly we just end up screaming about taquitos. Host segments: not normally Devori's thing; MiMi's all bitter; don't invite The Butcher to your heist; a taquito fancast; two chicks at once; hysterical in the Angry Dome; the problem with serial shorts; very intersec...

We’re finally taking on the new classic from Season 12, Mac and Me! We have so many questions that we want to address; What happened to the dad? How could the aliens have been contained in the facility? Is Mac from the moon? Mars? An asteroid? But most importantly, we discuss just would happen if Joe Don Baker was loose in a McDonald’s. A series of liquid and gas-filled bladders, super-human/sub-a...

How better to celebrate our last episode of Nuclear Winter than at Party Beach? Surely nothing can go wrong at Party Beach? Right? ...Right? Host segments: Heck's Angels; Scooby-Dooing this shit; sand in your tender bits; My Favorite Ford Fairlane; drunks, teenage girls, and out-of-towners; no boys allowed; Angry Dome presents Carol Clover; tantric rants; Those Were the Days; sometimes a wiener's...

First off, we're absolutely thrilled to finally have an episode that doesn't sound like one of us is down a well. Secondly, we're continuing Nuclear Winter with a kaiju who's certainly one of the kaiju - Gamera! On the cutting room floor - a lengthy conversation about whether or not Jeff has seen Fletch, and whether or not Fletch is good. Devori writes the episode descriptions, though - so Fletch...

We're still trapped in this bunker in Tennessee, but while we were at it, we recorded an episode for you! What happens when three hot young women get trapped in a house with a diabolical old lady, a henchman, a dog-man, and a disgraced nuclear scientist? People stop being polite, and start being real. Real terrible, that is. Host segments: We're in a bunker!; Jeff's like a hagfish; crazy from the...

Inexplicably, it happened again, folks. Somehow, we were all definitely together...in the same place...when we got trapped, sitcom-style, in a location! While we're trapped, we reminisce about the last season of SoL-Mates, and look forward to the future -- while we're all definitely in the same place. Really. Also, before you tweet at us, WE KNOW NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF IS DEAD. Host segments: true pro...

The holiday season is upon us here at SoL-Mates, which means we're discussing an MST3K Christmas classic, Santa Claus! Feel free to listen with your families because we cut out all the swears and sex toy jokes! If you want to know what to get us for Christmas, we sure to love likes, shares, ratings, and subscriptions! Host segments: It' a Wonderful Martha; a visit from Old Pitch; glowy feelings an...

It's starting to get cold out dere, and that reminded us of the day that dang ol' Earth froze, don'tcha know? How many dead geese did your boyfriend get YOU this year? Put down your lutefisk and enjoy this take on an MST3K Troika classic - The Day the Earth Froze! Host segments: the long and whiny road; sampo - where art thou?; mother of mothers; Cape Fear; logical reactions to clowns; many of us...

Happy Thanksgiving, SoL-Mates! In honor of the holiday, we're taking on one of the biggest turkeys in the entire riffing canon: Rifftrax: Live - Birdemic! Enjoy this super-sized SoL-Mates, even as MiMi visualizes Norman Krasner's physiology in a truly distressing way. Host segments: Devori's sleep routine; Normaniad; blank man; Victor Rios' C-Court; eagleluftwaffe; Wiseau's creepy black heart; Bir...

Here at SoL-Mates, we have your up-to-the-minute election coverage on the contentious race between the Robot and the Aztec Mummy! Hear our guest anchors break down every scintillating element of this electoral bout! Get the most recent exit polling data after we escape the clutches of a mummy who wants to beat the ever-loving hell out of us! Wonder exactly how a pre-recorded and edited podcast man...

What happens when Joe can't stop Devori from filling a whole short with material he would have otherwise cut because HE'S NOT THE BOSS OF HER? It's a very spoopie SoL-Mates Halloween episode! Chill and mildly thrill as the SoL-Mates tell their favorite spooky stories and JOE. CAN'T. EDIT. THEM. OUT. Warning: Joe's spooky story will harrow your very soul and leave you a husk of your former self. Ho...

It's yet another terrible week for accents here at SoL-Mates as we tackle the first sci-fi western, season 11's Beast of Hollow Mountain! Dios mio! Host segments: MiMi and Jeff are NOT at a Three Dog Night concert; spot-on Pancho; weird, weird West; Mundo Jurasico!; Jeff throws stones in glass houses; irrational fears; dad bod sexy; mah claim!; therapods on meth; Stack v. Farina; a slow priest and...

Listen as the SoL-Mates kick of Halloween month by plumbing the depths of their fears AND their Southern accents with Squirm! Also, be sure to look for literature regarding our burgeoning Cult of Coily! ALL HAIL THE SPRING! Host segments: sex and sketti; The Birds, but worms; Devori has beef with Mick; mostly water and goo; Gil's Paul/Saul moment; Jeff's worm academy; masturbation trunk. (CW: atte...

The SoL-Mates have done it again! Through our patented combination of wit and ribald humor, we've turned a mediocre episode into a romp more fun that Joe Don Baker hiding in a closet watching you with your lover. Duck and cover for Rocket Attack U.S.A! Host segments: totally unhelpful apocalypse tips; a long short; totally reliable narrators; sweet, sweet caldera death; hooray for jingoism!; the v...

For the 40th episode of SoL-Mates, we searched high and low amongst the best experts we could find who were related to us and were currently staying in one of our houses at the time this episode was recorded. That's right! SoL-Mates has a special guest this week while we talk about The Touch of Satan and how silky smooth it is! Host segments: Joe's searing insight into shitty plots; Melissa's magi...

In this episode, the SoL-Mates take on MST3K's treatment of the space opera classic (yes, classic) Manhunt in Space! Along the way, everyone learns how they feel about Winky, and Devori and Joe are definitely, wisely childless by choice. cw: rape/sexual assault narratives and suicide Host segments: Vena's little helper; indignant Winky; CAN WE GET A PREDICATE?; Joel Hodgson - Space Ranger?; the sa...

We're tackling MST3K favorite Overdrawn at the Memory Bank this week, and you know what that means! PLEDGE BREAKS! But, like, cool pledge breaks. And 100% less Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul, & Mary. Be sure to listen to the end to hear how to win a prize in our very own Review Pledge Drive! If you don't, you're no better than a mangy old baboon. Host Segments: a five-star episode; Teeny Little Sup...