Episode 49: The Natural - Firestarter - Top 5 Sports Movies: May 11, 1984

Opening Weekend is hitting it outta the park (cue Randy Newman music) and settin’ some s**t on fire (cue Tangerine Dream music) with May 11th, 1984’s THE NATURAL and Stephen King’s FIRESTARTER.  And the boys take a deep dive into their top 5 favorite sports movies (cue Handfarts Training Montage Music). Now batting: Episode 49 of Opening Weekend!Ahh, 1984. Weird Al is topping the charts and great movies are stopping our hearts. A young Fred is scaring himself (reading Stephen King), a young Dan is scarring himself (at Colonial Williamsburg), and a young Jason is scamming his teacher by putting out a fake issue of Time magazine! And all three boys are watching classic 80s movie after classic 80s movie, like The Natural and Firestarter! Redford’s hitting homers and Barrymore’s blasting baddies as George C. Scott and Darren McGavin compete for coolest fake eye! And the boys FINALLY solve the David Keith/Keith David mystery! (Spoiler alert: not a mystery.) And, as if that weren’t enough: there’s a new phone! You’ve heard guests call in on the Regular Phone and the Time Phone, but what dead celebs will call in on the HEAVEN PHONE? Here’s a hint: it’s probably no one you care about! But heat up your oatmeal and grab your diabeetis meds, and you’ll be sure to get...the straight story...from them (wink, wink). PLUS, a major development in the Sheila saga! (crickets) Ugh. OK: Sheila is a superfan of the podcast who used to write in to the mail sack all the time until she encountered the two grown-up babies from Baby’s Day Out and the nefarious Dr. Merlot who transformed her into a half-murder-hornet/half-human hybrid until the Arthropod Squad along with the Quail-Salmon Richard Dreyfuss…Oh, just forget it. It’s Episode 49 of Opening Weekend!!!