The Avid Indoorsmen

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...

We were thrilled when we heard CODA won the Oscar for Best Picture! Mostly because we knew we wouldn’t have to do an episode on The Power Of The Dog. Also because it is a beautiful story that touched our hearts. We had a blast breaking down this Best Picture Winner. This episode ends with a fun game of Last Man Stanton and our Patrons can watch us draft our Top 5 Movie Audition Scenes. Enjoy! 4:27...

Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic cinematic treasure, The Godfather, is celebrating it’s 50th Anniversary! This film is considered to be one of the best movies ever made and we decided to tackle this episode with just the two of us. We end with a Blockbuster Movie Game and our Patrons can watch us draft our Top 5 Movie Mobsters. Enjoy this episode or you’ll sleep with the fishes. 2:06 The King’s Man (...

It’s almost Oscars time! We went through each Oscars category and gave our predictions and also picked who we wanted to win. We will be posting our Grouchies Ballots on our social media accounts, we want you to fill those out and send them back to us. The biggest winner who supports us on Patreon can force us to watch a movie and we’ll talk about it on an episode! Enjoy! 3:00 Drive My Car 5:43 The...

Last year we both lost the Oscars competition we play every year, The Grouchies, to Carolyn Schult and she made us watch Strictly Ballroom. We decided since it’s having a 30th anniversary that we would just do a whole episode on it! Since this movie revolves around dancing, we brought back a guest who dances in competitions all over the world, our buddy Chris Rupp. We got some great dancing insigh...

We love Liar Liar and it just so happened to be Jim Carrey’s first leading role playing a somewhat normal person. It came out 25 years ago already and we brought back someone who enjoys this movie as much as we do, one of our favorite humans, Broadway/TV/Film Actor Benny Elledge. Had too much fun with this one. We end this episode with a Starting 5 game and our Patrons can watch us draft our Top 5...

My Cousin Vinny is 30 years old and it absolutely holds up all these years later. We brought back to the pod Adam Chance and Sami Matarante to share their thoughts and explain how they relate to the characters, both literally and figuratively. We end this episode with a Starting 5 game and our Patrons can watch our Top 5 Movie Courtroom Scenes Draft. Enjoy! 2:36 Nobody (HBOMax) 4:42 Spencer (HULU)...

5 years ago Jordan Peele made his directorial debut when he released the Academy Award winning film, Get Out. We have loved this movie since it came out and brought back someone else who feels the same way, Neil Ghosh! We end this episode with a Starting 5 game and our Patrons can watch us draft our Top 5 Favorite Horror Films. Enjoy! 3:36 The Tender Bar (Amazon Prime) 5:12 Old Henry 6:22 Reacher...

The super funny film about some super goofy state troopers is turning 20 years old…you guessed it…Super Troopers! We had to bring back a guest who thinks this film is as hilarious as we do, and that guest is Seggie Isho! We love Seggie and had a lot of fun breaking down this film with him. This episode ends with an Imitation Game and our Patrons can hear us draft our Top 5 Favorite Films With Main...

We hate talking about Wayne’s World…NOT! One of the best Saturday Night Live films ever is about to turn 30 years old. Wayne and Garth have been a big part of our lives and same goes for one of our favorite recurring guests, Adam Chance. We had so much fun talking about Wayne’s World with Chance and how it made us feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class. This episode end...

Eternals was released a while ago but thought since it was just released on Disney + that we would continue our Marvel Mania and discuss it! We brought back to the pod a fellow MCU lover and Rob’s bandmate, Adam Rupp! We had some super hot takes in this one and ended the show with a fun Starting 5 game. Our Patrons get to hear an exclusive Top 5 Draft of our favorite movie characters who are heari...

Superbad, the film that catapulted the careers of Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera and Seth Rogen, turns 15! This is a movie we quote constantly and brought back to the show one of our good buddies with whom we’ve seen this movie a bunch, Brandon Miller. We end this episode with a Starting 5 game and our Patrons can watch us draft our Top 5 Favorite Movie Friendships. This is a Super Good epis...

2021 IS DONE! So we thought we should do our annual year in review episode and talk about our Top 10 favorite films of 2021. We also give some honorable mentions, our least favorite movie of the year, our favorite acting performance and our favorite movie we watched that was not released this year. Our Patrons can watch us pick our Top 5 television shows of the year, as well as many honorable ment...

The world lost a comedic treasure in Betty White a couple weeks ago. We were all set to discuss The Proposal to celebrate Betty White turning 100 and now we dedicate this episode in her memory instead. We decided to start the new year with just us, so no guests with us this week. We end this episode with a Blockbuster movie game which takes us a couple tries and then our Patrons can watch us draft...