The Avid Indoorsmen

While we get ready for barbecues and fireworks for the 4th of July weekend, we should also celebrate the 25th anniversary of the epic alien disaster film, Independence Day! The film where we got to see Will Smith punch out an alien and Bill Pullman inspire us with a presidential speech, turns 25 on July 3rd. We asked Neil Ghosh, a great buddy of ours and recurring guest, to come on back and give h...

The candy-coated classic, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary! 50 years of Everlasting Gobstoppers, Golden Tickets and Oompa Loompas. We knew that Broadway Actress and previous guest, Stephanie Torns, loves this film so we got her to come back on the show and bring along her man/one of our besties, Benny Elledge. These two are a riot and we had a very silly ti...

It’s been 15 years since Meryl Streep played the cutthroat fashion empress, Miranda Priestly, and it remains an iconic cinematic character. The Devil Wears Prada is a favorite of ours and we knew that Sami Matarante also enjoyed it so we were able to get her to come back onto the podcast to talk about it! She has some great takes on this one that should not be missed. We ended with a brand new gam...

25 years ago there was a hostage takeover during a tour of Alcatraz and the only people who could help were Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery. It’s a perfect scenario for a super entertaining film and we were so excited to do an episode on The Rock. Our good buddy Benny Elledge came back on the pod fresh after his leading role feature film debut in Kringle Time, which can be seen at www.brooklynfilmf...

Baz Luhrmann’s film that taught us “the greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return” has just turned 20 years old. That’s right, Moulin Rouge is celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary! This was a big film for us and to talk about this wildly original musical, we got a wildly original musical guy in Austin Brown to come back to the pod. He had some fun takes on this that we t...

We are back with another Movie Game Night and this time we decided to bring our old roommates on the show! Back in 2008 we all lived in a house in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis and it was a very fun time in our lives. Many nights were spent across the street at the Green Mill as we procrastinated on figuring out what life path each of us should take. This was a great excuse to all hang ou...

Shrek is 20 years old and we celebrated by chatting about it with our good friends Reilly and McKenzie Zamber from The Hound and the Fox! We always have such a great time with these two and this was even more special because we recorded this on Reilly’s Birthday! We ended with a fun Imitation Game and our Patrons can listen to us draft our Top 5 Favorite Green Characters! Feel free to listen to th...

Every year we take the Academy Award’s Best Picture Winner and devote an episode to it. This last year’s winner was the Frances McDormand-led road trip romp, Nomadland. This film won Best Picture, Best Director & Best Lead Actress, which gave us a lot to talk about. We had a fun time breaking this down with just the two of us. We end the episode with a Last Man Stanton that was chosen by an Indoor...

If you’re a regular listener to our show, you know that Buegs is a big fan of the comedy led by Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids. We saw that Bridesmaids was reaching it’s 10 year mark and knew we had to devote some time to talk about it. Some of our favorite people in the world feel the same way as Buegs, so we got Adam Chance and Sami Matarante (Chami) to come back on the show! It’s always a blast havi...

We are back with another Movie Game Night and this time we got the Home Free Founding Fathers: Chris Rupp, Adam Rupp and Matt Atwood. Rob spent many years touring with these guys and we had too much fun reminiscing and playing some movie games. This one got pretty silly, enjoy listening to us have a good time! 1:08 @christhehatguy 1:25 @matthewatwood 2:00 @adamhfbeatbox 2:22 Plugarooni’s: www.chri...

Although a little delayed, the Academy Awards are finally here! And that means we have to give our predictions! Before we make our predictions we do our normal intro where we discuss the last movies we’ve watched, what we’ve been streaming and our favorite recent meals. We had a great time making our predictions and we had very different answers this year. Excited to see who gets the most correct!...

25 years ago Adam Sandler gave us the big-hearted, volatile hockey player turned golfer, Happy Gilmore. To celebrate this momentous occasion we brought back Cash Campbell, who just so happens to be an avid golfer and grew up loving this film as much as us! We enjoyed hearing Cash’s takes on this golf comedy classic. There are some quotes we use in everyday life and many that are used every time we...

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...