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From Left Field
by JJ Summers
After a home run filled season one, From Left Field’s second season takes us from the baseball diamond to 30 Rock. Join us as we take a look at the 11 official SNL films. With Wendy Simmons and JJ Summers. From Left Field is produced by Down Home Creative, an Austin-based creative collective.
Episodes
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S3E7 Home Alone livewatch
The whole family showed up (eventually) to talk over an entire movie. That’s right, Wendy is home for the holidays and joins Ronnie, Trumaine and JJ for an all tine classic. We watched Home Alone, and invite you to join us, From Left Field.
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S3E6 A Muppet Christmas Carol/Scrooged
A Christmas Carol must be one of the most filmed works of all time. But honestly, about 95% of y’all picked the same two versions as your favorites. We watched A Muppet Christmas Carol and Scrooged, From Left Field.
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S3E5 Gremlins
A bittersweet holiday tale about immigration, appropriation, loss, neglect and eating. We watched Gremlins, From Left Field
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S3E4 The Preacher’s Wife
It’s got Whitney and it’s got Denzel and you really don’t need to know much more. We watched The Preacher’s Wife, From Left Field.
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S3E3 Friday After Next
What would happen if all the characters (except your two favorites) from Friday came back? Again? For the holidays? And added Terry Crews in a problematic role? We watched Friday After Next, From Left Field.
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S3E2 Jingle All The Way
If all you want for Christmas is Jim Belushi in a Santa suit, you’ve got that and more! Phil Hartman at his creepiest. Sinbad at his Sinbaddest. And Arnold and Rita as Anakin’s parents. We watched Jingle All The Way, From Left Field.
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S3E1 A Christmas Story
Kids, guns, cold metal and warm tongues. It’s not nostalgia if the narrator won’t shut up for a second. We watched A Christmas Story, From Left Field.
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S3E0 The Holiday Buffet
New hosts Ronnita Miller and Trumaine Bradley sit down with JJ and Morgan to pick out some holiday movies to watch for this season’s podcast.
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S2E11 MacGruber
Greg Williams and Stefan Gill drop by to discuss attending a world premiere, the appeal of Kristen Wiig in drag, and how there will never be another Powers Booth. We watched MacGruber, cuz they made a fucking movie. MacGruber.
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S2E10 The Ladies Man
Ronnita Miller and Ava Smartt stop by for a game of “Fuck, FUCK, don’t fuck” with Tim Meadows, Billy Dee Williams, and John Witherspoon. We watched The Ladies Man, and that’s disgustin’.
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S2E9 Superstar
Meghan Ross and Melody Shifflet stop by to chat about rich girls, Tom Green, and which one of them is NOT going to take home a DVD copy of this week’s movie!
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S2E8 A Night At The Roxbury
Kat Ramzinski and Jer Moran drop in to talk about our relationship to the film Clueless, juicy celebrity conspiracies, and what an absolute piece of trash is Jeffrey Tambor. We watched a A Night At The Roxbury, and baby, don’t hurt me, no more.
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S2E7 Blues Brothers 2000
Lana Knight and Trumaine Bradley discuss departed friends, bad wigs, and what was Lil Nas X doing in 1998 when we watch Blues Brothers 2000. Buckle in, this ride is twice as long as Blues Brothers 1000!
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S2E6 Stuart Saves His Family
Jon Bender and Michael Haywood visit and together we come to the breakthrough realization that not all SNL films have to be comedies, and there’s a little bit to love in Stuart Saves His Family.
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S2E5 It’s Pat: The Movie
Beautiful genius Virgil Shelby stops by to discuss how everything about this movie is wrong. Wrong. WRONG! And then we try to say nice things.
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S2E4 Wayne’s World 2
Kelty Dorsey and Robyn Reynolds join us to discuss our eternal disappointment upon finding out this fact: Mike Myers' original script for Wayne's World 2 had Wayne and Garth forming their own country and seceding from the US after finding an ancient scroll, in a story taken from the 1949 British...
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S2E3 Coneheads
Malina Panovich and Dylan Garsee stop by to discuss Crystal Skull vodka, Frankenstein ER, and the creepy gaze of a prom dad.
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S2E2 Wayne’s World
Ariel Greenspoon and Rob Gagnon, one of the greatest comedy duos of our time, join us to discuss another great comedy duo of yesteryear, Alice Cooper and Donna Dixon.
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S2E1 The Blues Brothers
Marcia Andrea has never seen the Blues Brothers. Sam Dickenson loves the Blues Brothers. We discuss the shitty part of Chicago, how everything Dan Akroyd has ever done was supposed to include John Belushi, and throw in a little Carrie Fisher worship for good measure. If you ever thought Matt…
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Live From Left Field It’s Saturday Night
Wendy, JJ and Morgan meet up for the first time since Season One to discuss SNL and what it has meant to them., and to preview Season Two.
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Inning Nine, Eight Men Out
Eight Men Out is a 1988 sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written and directed by John Sayles. The film is a dramatization of Major League Baseball's Black Sox scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox...
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Inning Eight, The Bad News Bears
Inning Eight, The Bad News Bears is a 1976 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal. The film was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978, a short-lived 1979–80 CBS...
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Inning Seven, Bull Durham
Bull Durham is a 1988 American romantic comedy sports film. It is partly based upon the minor-league baseball experiences of writer/director Ron Shelton and depicts the players and fans of the Durham Bulls, a minor-league baseball team in Durham, North Carolina. Kim Lowery performs with Loverboy...
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Inning Six, The Natural
The Natural is a 1984 American sports film based on Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel of the same name, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close, and Robert Duvall.[1][2] Like the book, the film recounts the experiences of Roy Hobbs, an individual with great "natural"…
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INNING FIVE, BINGO LONG
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings is a 1976 sports comedy film about a team of enterprising ex-Negro League baseball players in the era of racial segregation. Loosely based upon William Brashler's novel of the same name, it starred Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and Richard...
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Inning Four, MONEYBALL
Moneyball is a 2011 American sports film directed by Bennett Miller and written by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. The film is based on Michael Lewis's 2003 nonfiction book of the same name, an account of the Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beane's...
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Inning Three, A League Of Their Own
A League of Their Own is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Directed by Penny Marshall, the film stars Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, and Lori Petty. The…
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INNING TWO, MAJOR LEAGUE
FROM LEFT FIELD, INNING TWO: Major League (1989] The new owner of the Cleveland Indians, former showgirl Rachel Phelps (Margaret Whitton), has a sweetheart deal to move the team to Miami. But to break the lease with the city of Cleveland, ticket sales have to plummet. So Phelps hires the most...
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Inning One, The Sandlot
FROM LEFT FIELD, INNING ONE - The Sandlot is a 1993 American coming of age sports comedy film co-written, directed, and narrated by David Mickey Evans which tells the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962. Holli Cuomo is a stand up comic in Austin, Texas, and host…
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Pre-game warmup: introduction/preview
Meet Wendy and JJ and find out some of the movies we won't be discussing, and some of the guests we won't be meeting.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
After a home run filled season one, From Left Field’s second season takes us from the baseball diamond to 30 Rock. Join us as we take a look at the 11 official SNL films. With Wendy Simmons and JJ Summers. From Left Field is produced by Down Home Creative, an Austin-based creative collective.
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After a home run filled season one, From Left Field’s second season takes us from the baseball diamond to 30 Rock. Join us as we take a look at the 11 official SNL films. With Wendy Simmons and JJ Summers. From Left Field is produced by Down Home Creative, an Austin-based creative collective.
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