The Avid Indoorsmen

Baby Step to 100 episodes...Baby Step to 100 episodes...Baby Step to 100 episodes. We baby stepped our way to 100 full episodes! We’re so happy we could celebrate this momentous occasion with the classic Bill Murray comedy, What About Bob?!!! Can’t believe it has been in our lives for 30 years now. Our good friends Nate Stone and Jeffrey East enjoy this film as much as we do and we were happy to l...

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.” This iconic quote was said 35 years ago by one of the most recognizable characters in cinematic history, Ferris Bueller. Pretty deep stuff coming from a comedy about a high schooler wanting to skip school with his friends. We brought back a couple of friends we would have loved to skip school with, Aaron...

It’s officially been over a year since Home Free’s last live show, so we thought it would be fun to get the people who make those shows happen all in the same Zoom and play some games together! Welcome to Movie Game Night: Home Free Crew edition! Big thanks to Jenika Marion, Nate Stone, Abe Sword and Chris Worley! We had so much fun it almost felt like we had just performed a show and were goofing...

Good Morning Zamunda! It only took 33 years but the sequel to Coming To America is finally here and cleverly titled Coming 2 America! We brought back Seggie Isho from Straight No Chaser since he broke down the original with us and it was fun talking about a brand new movie with him! This episode ends with a newer game we’re calling Before and After and since there were so many musician cameos in C...

Good Morning My Neighbors! We have discussed doing an episode on Coming To America forever since it’s one of our favorite comedies and now seemed like the perfect time since a sequel has finally been released. Seggie Isho from Straight No Chaser shares our love of this Eddie Murphy classic and we asked him to come back to the pod and give some smokin’ hot takes! We end this episode with a Starting...

Fresh off of Daniel Kaluuya’s Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Film Golden Globe win, we talked about Judas and the Black Messiah with our good friend, Neil Ghosh. We were excited that a new film came out that was worth doing an episode on. JATBM will be up for a bunch of Academy Awards and we highly recommend checking the film out on HBO before listening to this episode. Big thanks to Neil for co...

We have another fun Movie Game Night episode for your listening pleasure...and viewing pleasure if you’re a supporter on Patreon. We were joined by a couple of returning guests: Home Free’s monster bass, Tim Foust; and Home Free’s manager, Luke Pierce. Making his Avid Indoorsmen debut is fellow Sing Off alumn and wildly successful podcaster, Jeremy Lewis! So much fun was had, we hope you’re not to...

The hilarious 1996 La Cage aux Folles adaptation, The Birdcage, is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary! To commemorate this big occasion we devoted an entire episode to it! We brought back to the podcast Broadway/film/TV actor Benny Elledge and making his AI debut fellow NYC actor/UMD alumn Brian Skellenger. It was fun to reminisce about our old college days and break down this comedic classic. We e...

This was a really special episode for us because we were able to talk with an actor that we have loved for a very long time, John Carroll Lynch! We had a great time picking his brain about his experience with Fargo, his time spent in Minnesota and his directorial debut. Then we break down Fargo, just the two of us, and end with a movie game called Last Man Stanton. Our Patrons then get to hear us...

The last time a film won Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Picture was 30 years ago for The Silence of the Lambs. We knew we wanted to talk about this film since it’s celebrating it’s 30th Anniversary and it’s so iconic. We found a couple of wonderful returning guests who had some great insights, The Hound + The Fox’s Reilly and McKenzie Zamber. W...

We’re back with another Movie Game Night!!! We thought it would be fun to get a bunch of returning guests who just so happened to all go to the same high school as Rob, Park Center HS located in Brooklyn Park, MN. This episode features: Benny Elledge, Tim St. Sauver, Dan Ristrom and J.Michael Trautmann. It was so much fun to have a little high school reunion and things got pretty goofy in this one...

2020 is in the books and we thought it would be fun to do a 2020 Year in Review episode ranking our Top 10 favorite movies of the year. Many movies that were supposed to come out were rescheduled (like so many things in 2020) and we saw way fewer new movies than we would during a “normal” year. However, there were still many worth seeing so listen up if you want some recommendations! Our Patrons g...

We are joined again by two wonderful humans, @samimatarante and @olenanoelle, to talk about the newest superhero film, Wonder Woman 1984. This movie has gotten some mixed reviews and our takes are all over the place. After we give our thoughts, we end the episode with a fun game we call The Starting 5 and our Patrons can hear us draft our Top 5 Favorite Movies Where A Wish Is Granted. Wonder Woman...

For the first episode of 2021 we wanted to talk about the 2017 film Wonder Woman, in preparation for the sequel that just came out to HBO Max, Wonder Woman 1984! It’s a new year so we had to bring on a new guest to the pod, our good friend Olena Lysenko! She is joined by one of her best friends and one of our favorite recurring guests, Sami Matarante! These two had some really fun insights on the...

Hooray! We are almost done with 2020! We thought we’d end the year with one of our favorite Rom-Coms of all time and a film that always reminds us of New Year’s Eve, When Harry Met Sally. Rob’s much better half, Kelsey, came back to the pod to give her thoughts on this film and she is always a delight. We end with the Blockbuster movie game we haven’t played in a long time... Way back in March we...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Hoping you’re all feeling the holiday spirit because we are here to talk about The Santa Clause! We put up several polls on what Christmas movie we should chat about for our Christmas Eve episode and The Santa Clause sleighed the competition... We decided to keep it nice and cozy and just have the two of us discuss Tim Allen’s portrayal of Santa Claus. It...

The Coen Brothers film that gave us the Soggy Bottom Boys, O Brother, Where Art Thou, is having it’s 20th Anniversary. There are many reasons we wanted to talk about this southern take on Homer’s Odyssey, but the biggest reason is because Rob’s bandmate, Austin Brown, is great friends with Quinn Gasaway who played Boy Hogwallop in the film! We were able to get Quinn to tell us some really fun stor...

We’ve reached the third and final of the Christopher Nolan Batman films, The Dark Knight Rises. On our Movie Game Night with The Filharmonic we found out Niko Del Rey and Jules Cruz were into this film, so we invited them back on for a real episode! They are very entertaining guys and we had a blast chatting with them about the observations they made about The Dark Knight Rises. We even got them t...

We are so serious, we love the second film in the Christopher Nolan Batman Trilogy, The Dark Knight. Why so serious? Because it’s amazing!!! Jenika Marion and Reilly Zamber are huge Christopher Nolan/Dark Knight fans and BEGGED to be on this episode, so we obliged and were so happy to have them back on. They bring some great takes, like they always do. This episode ends with us playing a newer gam...

It’s the 15th anniversary of Christopher Nolan’s take on the caped crusader, Batman Begins. A gritty, dark version of Batman that we hadn’t seen before comes to life in the first of the Nolan Batman trilogy. We had to bring back a recurring guest to the show who loves all things Nolan and Bale, Straight No Chaser’s Seggie Isho! He’s so funny and has a new Christmas album and some live shows they’r...

Home Free had gotten together to film their Warmest Winter Holiday Special and Buegs made the trek to Nashville to hang out (and maybe be a part of the special????). Rob had driven by himself from Minnesota to Tennessee and Buegs accompanied him on the way back to the Twin Cities. We had 13 hours in the car and for a little over an hour of that we played a Movie Game and recorded it for your liste...

The movie that brought us “It’s Not A Tumor” “I’m a cop you idiot” and so many more classic Arnold one-liners is having it’s 30th Anniversary! Kindergarten Cop was a huge part of our childhoods and we had to do an episode on it. We brought in one of our buddies from college who has the best Arnold Schwarzenegger impression we have ever heard, Evan Kelly. Even if you don’t want to hear an entire ep...

By the time we’re releasing this we may know who won the American Presidential election, so we thought Aaron Sorkin’s The American President was a perfect choice for this week’s episode. It also happens to be having a 25th anniversary which seemed even more of a reason to deep dive into this film. Timmy St. Sauver is a lifelong friend of Rob’s and has been on the pod numerous times. We know he’s a...

Happy early Halloween everyone! We thought since this has been the most terrifying year of existence that we would talk about a funnier Halloween film, Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods! Reilly Zamber, who you know as half of the music duo The Hound + The Fox, is a lover of Halloween and all the spookiness it brings, so we had to have him come back on the pod and give his most terr...

Since the MLB World Series is upon us, we thought we would talk about one of our favorite baseball films of all time, Major League. This film gave us Wild Thing Ricky Vaughn, Willie Mays Hays and Bob Uecker’s hilarious one liners. We had to get someone who appreciated these things as much as us and thankfully Seggie Isho from Straight No Chaser is also a big fan. We always have a great time talkin...