The Avid Indoorsmen

It’s been 20 years since the Scorsese film about 1860’s New York was released. We brought back a couple of our favorite recurring guests who also happen to be the newest members of the Home Free touring crew, Abe Sword and Neil Ghosh, to talk about it with us. We end this episode with a Starting 5 and our Patrons can hear us draft our Top 5 Favorite Movie Facial Hair. Enjoy! 2:36 Austin Powers: In...

We decided to devote an episode on easily our favorite movie of the year thus far, Everything Everywhere All At Once. We brought in Josh Adams who has made several Home Free music videos and has handled social media content for many bands and currently the very popular comedian, Jo Koy. Josh makes his AI debut here and we just had a great time chatting with him about this wildly original film. Enj...

Adam Rupp, Chris Rupp and Matt Atwood started up the singing sensation, Home Free, and we thought we’d bring them back to the show for another movie game night! Tons of fun was had by all. Check out Home Free on tour at www.homefreemusic.com and also preorder their new album So Long Dixie! Check out Chris’ group Cypress Fyre and their latest video https://youtu.be/K6BAEh0oIJs Check out all of the...

Al Pacino won Best Actor 30 years ago for his portrayal of Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent Of A Woman. We decided to talk about it and brought along one of our favorite recurring guests, Seggie Isho! We end this episode with a Plot Tub Time Machine and our Patrons can watch us draft our Top 5 Movie Monologues. Enjoy! 2:40 Prey (HULU) 4:13 Platoon 5:51 Crush (HULU) 7:21 Our Flag Means Death (HBOMax)...

The iconic 80’s action movie, Predator, is 35 years old. It’s given us some amazing quotes and so many sequels. We brought back our hilarious buddy, Max Felsheim, to give us his takes on this Arnold classic. We end with a Plot Tub Time Machine and our Patrons can watch us draft our Top 5 Muddy Movies. Enjoy! 3:56 Last Night In Soho 6:10 3 Days of the Condor 7:58 Hello My Name Is Doris 10:06 The Be...

We haven’t covered many westerns on this podcast but figured that the Best Picture Winner at the 65th Academy Awards deserved to have an episode devoted to it. We finally got our good friend and fellow A Cappella alumnus, Eric Patenaude, to make his AI debut. We’ve both sang with Eric in the past and knew he was a film nerd & figured he’d be great on the show. Thankfully we were right and we had a...

It’s been a while since we had a Movie Game Night episode and thought since the fantasy football season is so close, we’d bring in a couple guys from our fantasy football league of 15 years. Brandon Miller and Nick Post have been on the show before and we had a great time playing some games with them. Enjoy! 1:13 Nick Post & Brandon Miller 2:20 The Starting 5 18:30 Before and After 37:13 Bend It L...

We got our good buddy and Home Free’s new Tour Manager, Abe Sword, on the pod! We talk about Lady Bird, the Oscar nominated film from writer and director Greta Gerwig. Always a blast talking with Abe and we’re glad he watched this movie to come on the show. This episode ends with a Plot Tub Time Machine and our Patrons can hear us draft our Top 5 Favorite Movies Written and Directed by the Same Pe...

We got resident Marvel expert, Reilly Zamber, back on the pod to discuss the latest Thor film, Love and Thunder. Reilly is super dialed into the MCU, he’s basically the closest thing we have to Kevin Feige. Always love hearing his takes. We end this episode with a Starting 5 and our Patrons can hear us draft our Top 5 Films Where Actors Have Starred With Their Kids. Enjoy! 2:22 The Gray Man (Netfl...

Happy Madison Productions have released yet another movie on Netflix and this time it’s a pretty great basketball movie starring Adam Sandler. We enjoyed it a lot and thought that our good buddies over at the Full Court Fresh Podcast, Niko Del Rey & Jules Cruz, would have some good insights. Turns out we were right, we had a great time chatting with them and we are featured on an episode of their...

A League of Their Own is turning 30 years old and we knew we had to take a swing at this one. We brought back our good buddy and NYC-based actor, Benny Elledge. He brought along a cinematographer in the film industry, Brendan Banks, giving this podcast some credibility. We had a blast talking about this iconic sports film and devoted a bunch of time on what we thought actually happened at the end....

The episode that Buegs has been pumped about for some time is finally upon us. Reign of Fire is an apocalyptic action film with dragons and a couple Oscar winners that Buegs watched many times 20 years ago. Fun episode with just the two of us. We end the episode with a Last Man Stanton and our Patrons can hear us draft our Top 5 Matthew McConaughey Films. Enjoy 2:57 The Worst Person In The World (...

🎶Here comes the Men In Black🎶 The MIB came into our lives 25 years ago so to celebrate such a momentous occasion we thought we’d spend some time talking about it. We had some guests fall through on this one, so you just get to enjoy the Avid Indoorsmen in all our glory. Enjoy! 3:05 Spiderhead (Netflix) 4:16 Uncharted 6:08 The Old Man (HULU) 7:58 The Boys Season 3 (Prime) 10:25 Plugarooni’s 10:50...

Frank Abagnale Jr and Carl Hanratty came into our lives 20 years ago in the Steven Spielberg classic, Catch Me If You Can. This is a perfect film and we got a perfect guest to talk about it with us in Neil Ghosh. He has some great takes and we always love having him on the show. We end the episode with a Plot Tub Time Machine game and our Patrons can hear us draft our Top 5 Favorite Steven Spielbe...

The rodent infested Pixar film, Ratatouille, just turned 25 years old. We love Ratatouille and brought back one of our favorite recurring guests to talk about it with us, Heatbox! He doesn’t love a lot of movies, so when we know we’re going to do an episode on a film he’s into, we beg him to be on before anyone else. We end this episode with a Quotes Game and our Patrons can hear us battle it out...

The much anticipated sequel to Top Gun that was delayed over and over again is finally here and boy did it deliver. We won’t spoil it for you here but we were into it. We’ve known for 2 years that we were going to have J.Michael Trautmann on for this episode because he is a Top Gun fanatic. So glad we were able to chat with him about this film! We end this episode with a quotes game we call Malkov...

Steven Spielberg’s heartwarming film about an alien wanting to get back to his planet is 40 years old! We loved E.T. as kids and brought in someone else who felt the same way, our good buddy and prolific songwriter, Jeffrey East. Always a great time talking with Jeffrey and getting to hear his thoughts on this film was very fun. We end the episode with a new game called Plot Tub Time Machine and o...

The Nicholas Cage/John Travolta classic action film, Face/Off, has just turned 25 years old. This was a big film for Rob growing up and couldn’t wait to talk about it with returning guests Benny Elledge and Adam “Renegade” Wilson. This episode ends with a Starting 5 game and our Patrons can listen to us draft our Top 5 Nic Cage/John Travolta films. Enjoy! 2:13 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumb...

The film that brought us such characters as Cyrus the Virus, Diamond Dog, Pinball, Baby-O and Cameron Poe just turned 25 years old. Of course we’re talking about the Aviation Sensation that is Con Air. Frequent guest, Tim Foust, and his good buddy returning to the show for the first time, Chris Chatham, have some serious history with this film. They know every deep cut quote you can think of by he...

Our last film in Spider-Man MAY-nia is the most recent Peter Parker film, No Way Home. We brought back Reilly Zamber from The Hound + The Fox to finish the Tom Holland trilogy. We always love talking Marvel with Reilly. Enjoy! 1:47 Everything Everywhere All At Once 4:45 Minx (HBOMax) 6:33 Severance (AppleTV+) 8:39 Buegs’ Meal of the Soul 9:48 La Belle Tonki https://www.labelletonki.ca/ 11:50 Pluga...

We got Tim Foust and Jenika Marion back on the pod to talk about Andrew Garfield’s first take at Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man. It’s celebrating a 10 year anniversary and our 2nd film in Spider-Man MAY-nia. There are some scorching hot takes in this one, you’re not gonna want to miss it. We end this episode with an Imitation Game and our Patrons can watch us draft our Top 5 Films Where So...

Sam Raimi took his shot with starting a Spider-Man franchise 20 years ago this week. It’s hard to believe the film that brought the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man to the big screen and that infamous upside down kiss is 20 years old. We were supposed to have our good buddy and Hollywood actor, J.Michael Trautmann, on the episode with us, but he got rocked with laryngitis and Rob was heading out o...

It’s been a while since we did a Movie Game Night and we decided to bring the ladies back! We had a MGN Ladies Night last year with some of our great friends from college and had so much fun that we wanted to do it all over again. Big thanks to Jessie, Molly and Kelsey for playing some games with us. Enjoy! 1:13 Molly Pernu, Kelsey Lundquist, Jessie Pellowski 2:33 The Starting 5 24:40 The Quotes G...

Maybe you saw the reunion of Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes and Rosie Perez at the Oscars…it was the biggest thing that happened that night…the reason they got together was because White Men Can’t Jump just turned 30 years old. Our good buddies Niko Del Rey and Jules Cruz from The Filharmonic have just started a basketball podcast called Full Court Fresh. We told them to pick a basketball movie th...

We finally got our good buddy on the show, Mr Chris Chatham! Most of you who follow Home Free are familiar with Chatham as he ends up in a lot of Home Free behind the scenes videos. Super talented and funny dude that just so happens to love Grosse Pointe Blank. It is celebrating 25 years of existence and since it’s a favorite of Chatham’s, it seemed like the perfect time for him to make his Avid I...