The Dumb Cool Weird Podcast

Wes and Nick watch this 50s Sci-Fi Doomsday Classic with a lot of scienciy babble building and transatlantic talking spells involving Planets coming out of nowhere.  Plot: South African pilot Dave Randall serves as courier - transporting a briefcase to American scientist, Dr Hendron. Inside the case are documents which state the star Bellus will collide with Earth, destroying it. A plan is develop...

Wes and Nick weren't expecting much, but the lack of Vampire like qualities and the loud ADR voice overs make this film bizarre.   Plot: Sleepy-eyed nice guy Lee Ritter and his vapid, but pretty wife, Susan accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is in reality a centuries-old...

Wes and Nick tackle a song that everyone remembers and tries to forget. Well surprise here it is again. Background: Friday co-writer Patrice Wilson, a co-founder of ARK Music Factory, explained that he "wrote the lyrics on a Thursday night going into a Friday. I was writing different songs all night and was like, 'Wow, I've been up a long time and it's Friday.' And I was l...

Wes and Nick watch this bizarre classic horror flick from Vincent Price about spine centipedes and drama with wives involving LSD.  Plot: Dr. Warren Chapin is a pathologist who regularly conducts autopsies on executed prisoners at the State prison. He has a theory that fear is the result of a creature that inhabits all of us. His theory is that the creature is suppressed by our ability to scream w...

Wes and Nick recount there time listening to this Primus song laughing at the redneck culture. Background: "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" was the fourth Primus single, after " John the Fisherman ", " Too Many Puppies " and " Mr. Knowitall" from the 1989 live album Suck on This and 1990's debut studio release Frizzle Fry . "Jerry Was a Race Car Drive...

Wes and Nick tackle this classic movie from Mel Brooks that will make you say Skroob Star Wars. Plot: On the peaceful planet Druidia, King Roland attempts to marry his daughter Princess Vespa to Prince Valium, but Vespa and her loyal droid Dot Matrix escape during her wedding. After wasting the fresh air on the distant planet Spaceball, corrupt President Skroob orders the arch-villain henchman Dar...

Wes and Nick recount there time listening to this awesome track as a kid and laughing. Background: On the first day of recording, Eminem and Dr. Dre finished "My Name Is" in an hour. [5] The song contains a sample of Labi Siffre 's track " I Got The... ". Siffre, who is openly gay , said in a 2012 interview that he refused to clear the sample until sexist and homophobic ly...

Wes and Nick watch this awesome Vincent Price film that has him being he most evil self lording over the land and avoiding the Red Death.  Plot: The evil Prince Prospero is riding through the Catania village when he sees that the peasants are dying of Red Death plague. Prospero asks to burn down the village and he is offended by the villagers Gino and his father-in-law Ludovico. He decides to kill...

Wes and Nick listen to Fat by Weird Al and have flashbacks of childhood obesity. Background: Yankovic was inspired to create "Fat" while watching the "Bad" music video, when he had an epiphany that a parody of that song titled "Fat" would be a good sequel to " Eat It " (a previous Weird Al Michael Jackson parody). While watching the "Bad" video, he...

Wes and Nick talk about this big let down from a movie that had a cooler title than the movie itself. Plot: A Count executed for murdering twelve virgins in a bid for immortality returns to life, seeking revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor. Support the show: 🎤 Go to listen to the audio podcast on your favorite platform: https://dumbcoolweirdpodc...

Wes and Nick watch this rad ass commercial from the 90s with a Chocolate eating vampire! Background: In March 1971, the first two cereals in the line were introduced, the chocolate-flavored Count Chocula and the strawberry-flavored Franken Berry. Count Chocula is the name of an advertising character for an eponymous breakfast cereal made by General Mills. He is a vampire that ostensibly eats only...

Wes and Mostly Nick tackle this classic Vincent Price movie with his favorite item to murder people with: The Pendulum. Plot:  Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the brutest torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating...

Wes and Nick tackle this amazing spy comedy that makes fun of James Bond and takes inspiration from Dr. Gold Foot. Austin Powers is pure awesome fun!!! Plot: Austin Powers is a 60's spy who is cryogenically frozen and released in the 1990's. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortunately for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, h...

Wes and Nick Tackle this movie that really focuses on the Joker and not the Bat.  Plot: Gotham City. Crime boss Carl Grissom (Jack Palance) effectively runs the town but there's a new crime fighter in town - Batman (Michael Keaton). Grissom's right-hand man is Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson), a brutal man who is not entirely sane... After falling out between the two Grissom has Napier set u...

Wes and Nick review this classic Ernest P. Worrell tale of him messing crap up and helping a weird Santa Clause find a successor.  Plot: Ernest P. Worell, a sweet but silly taxi driver who at times suffers delusions of grandeur, has just chauffeured a rather extraordinary fare: "His Great Red Oneness, the Claus" himself. It seems Santa hasn't got the magic for another Christmas seas...

Wes and Nick review this wacky snowman horror flick and it has bad puns and awesome deaths! Plot: After an accident that left murderer Jack Frost dead in genetic material the vengeful killer returns as a murderous snowman to exact his revenge on the man who sent him to be executed. Support the show: 🎤 Go to listen to the audio podcast on your favorite platform: https://dumbcoolweirdpodcast.buzzsp...

Wes and Nick take on this Christmas classic and watch a nightmare unfold for two robbers and a psycho kid trying to kill them. Plot: It is Christmas time and the McCallister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But the youngest in the family, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin), got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz (Devin Ratray) and was sent to his room, which is on the third floor...

Wes and Nick had high hopes for this one and it turned out to be shitter than they thought if that's possible... Plot: Worried that their children have become obsessed with television shows from Earth which extol the virtues of Santa Claus, Martians begin an expedition to Earth to kidnap the one and only Santa Claus. While on Earth, they kidnap two lively children that lead the group of Marti...

Wes and Nick watch this wacky comedy that is not scary, but kinda ridiculous. Plot: Waldo Trumbull, an undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced the pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people in order to get new clients. Support the show: 🎤 Go to listen to the audio podcast on your favorite platform: https://dumbcoolweirdpodcast.bu...

Wes and Nick tackle a movie about witches and the general who hunts them and makes them confess with the dumbest made up tests ever! Plot: England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Ho...

Wes and Nick tackle this Thanksgiving miracle featuring Al Bundy star Ed O'Neill and a shit head kid in this road trip flick! Plot: Working-class, blunt, down-to-earth good-guy construction worker Dutch Dooley is the current boyfriend of a wealthy, snobbish tycoon's ex-wife. Volunteering to drive the woman's son home to Chicago for Thanksgiving from his Georgia boarding school, Dutc...

Wes and Nick are joined by the beautiful Honey Haven to bring you a blast from your past of this great thanksgiving comedy with annoying fat guys and dick head white haired assholes trying to get home.  Plot:  All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. When bad weather cancels his flight, he decides on other means of transportation. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with th...

Wes and Nick review this movie with not zombie mutants and people turning into dust from a comet. Plot: A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists. Support the show: 🎤 Go to listen to the audio podcast on your favorite platform: https://dumbcoolweirdpodcast.buzzsprout.com/share 🌐 To see more stuff, buy so...

Wes and  Nick review this weird horror movie from 1988 with teens and demons with a black guy who survives. Plot: On the night of Halloween, 10 teens decide to go to a party at an abandoned funeral parlor. "Hull House", rumored to be built on an evil patch of land & underground stream, is the place. While starting the party, the teens gather around a big mirror to perform a seance......

Wes and Nick are amazed by the most violent and sexual movie of 1984 featuring a nerd becoming a superhero! Plot: In Tromaville, Melvin works in a health club with his bucket and mop as a janitor. The sadistic bullies Bozo and Slug and their girlfriends Julie and Wanda, who love to hit-and-run people in empty streets, play a cruel prank on Melvin and he falls off the window in a barrel of toxic wa...