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Gleaming The Tube
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Kevin and Mike watch movies in which somebody skateboards at some point. Sometimes the movie will be about skateboarding, sometimes it’ll just be some rando in the background. They will interrogate it all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Summer School
1987’s Summer School stars Mark Harmon as physical education teacher and shiftless layabout Freddie Shoop, who is assigned to teach remedial English summer school to a bunch of misfits and outcasts! Along the way, it’s possible that the KIDS are teaching Freddie Shoop as much as he’s teaching…
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One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another, which recently won Best Picture at the Academy Awards, tells a sprawling story about generational struggle, the relentless pursuit of ideological change, and the personal cost of activism. It's also got skateboarding in it, so Kevin and Mike have dusted off their...
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KPop Demon Hunters
KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 American animated musical urban fantasy film that is also the most-watched movie ever on the Netflix platform! The film follows a K-pop girl group named Huntr/x who lead double lives as demon hunters; they face off against a rival boy band, the Saja Boys, whose…
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The Lost Boys
We're back for spooky season with a discussion of the vampire classic The Lost Boys! There's not a lot of skateboarding in this one but there are a lot of rat-licking punks, trash cans filled with flames, greased up saxophone players, obnoxious comic book store workers, and Coreys. So many…
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Record City
1977’s Record City brings us into a day in the life of a California record store, its employees, its customers, and the participants in a radio talent show. Is this the worst movie Kevin and Mike have ever watched for GLEAMING THE TUBE? It very well might be. Come share our pain. Hosted on Acast....
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by and starring Ben Stiller, is a visually ambitious reimagining of James Thurber’s classic short story with a surprisingly high amount of skateboarding during its runtime. Despite this, neither Kevin nor Mike were particularly fond of this...
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The Karate Kid
What can be said about The Karate Kid that hasn't already been said? How about: there's a tiny bit of skateboarding in it. Kevin and Mike wax on and off about that, the film's performances, the tenuous link between skateboarding and karate, and, or course, crane kicks. So many crane kicks. Hosted...
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Suburban Commando
The year was 1991 and Hulkamania was running wild in cinemas across America with the release of Suburban Commando! The film stars professional wrestler Hulk Hogan as an outer space warrior of some sort who finds himself having to blend in on Earth while living with a suburban family. Shenanigans,...
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Grease 2
Grease 2 brings us back to the Rydell High from the popular 1978 musical film Grease but this time instead of John Travolta and Olivia Newton John we’ve got a new set of Pink Ladies and T-Birds, including a young Michelle Pfeiffer in her first starring role! Pamela Adlon on a skateboard! The guy...
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Y2K
Y2K from 2024 is an apocalyptic comedy science fiction horror coming of age film directed by Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney in his directorial debut. It follows a group of high school students who attempt to survive on New Years Eve when the year 2000 comes and all technology comes to life...
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Pretty Woman
Kevin and Mike are back for 2025 to tackle a movie that's synonymous with skateboard culture - 1990's Pretty Woman! Learn the mysterious identity of the skateboarding teen who appears briefly in the film! Hear how we think the film has held up! Julia Roberts! Richard Gere! Jason Alexander! Opera!...
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Didi
Dìdi is a 2024 coming-of-age film, written, directed, and produced by Sean Wang in his directorial debut. The film follows a 13-year-old Taiwanese-American boy as he navigates the challenges of adolescence, his relationship with his mother, and his love of skateboarding. In a departure for movies...
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So I Married an Axe Murderer
1993's So I Married An Axe Murderer finds Mike Myers, hot off the success of the Wayne's World movie, playing a commitment-phobic beat poet who falls head over heels in love with a woman who may or may not have murdered her previous three husbands. There is a profoundly tiny amount of…
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Deck Dogz
We're back! 2005's DECK DOGZ is an Australian film about three skateboarding teens who are trying to escape the law, school, parents, their demons and a couple of criminals to realise their burning ambition; to meet world class skating champion, Tony Hawk and compete in his skating competition.…
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Hackers
1995’s Hackers is a shockingly accurate portrayal of the rollerblading hacker subculture of the time and stars darn near everybody, most notably a skateboarding Fisher Stevens who plays an evil hacker called "The Plague." The film also stars Angelina Jolie in one of her first starring roles,...
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
1989’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids stars the great Rick Moranis as a nutty inventor and father who accidentally, well, shrinks his kids. And his neighbor kids. A whole lot shrinking happening and a tiny bit of skateboarding, which is why Kevin and Mike watched this movie. Hosted on Acast. See...
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PCU
1994’s PCU, directed by Hart Bochner, tells the story of college life at the fictional Port Chester University, and represents "an exaggerated view of contemporary college life in the 90s" - according to the filmmakers. There are slobs, there are snobs, there is the specter of POLIITICAL...
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Shredder Orpheus
1989’s SHREDDER ORPHEUS is a dystopian science fiction skateboard retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Euridyce. And it's exactly as good as that description makes it sound. Kevin and Mike enjoy this movie in spite of itself and discuss the skateboarding, the connection to Hadestown, the...
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Minding the Gap
Minding the Gap is a 2018 documentary film directed by Bing Liu, which chronicles the lives and friendships of three young men growing up in Rockford, Illinois who are united by their love of skateboarding. Kevin and Mike watched this (pretty amazingly great) movie and discuss, in an atypically...
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Hot Rod
2007’s HOT ROD tells the story of aspiring stuntman Rod Kimble, played by Andy Samberg, and his attempts to pull off his most impressive stunt yet to help raise money to save his stepfather, played by Ian MacShane. And there's some skateboarding. Kevin and Mike are joined by their pal Guy Benoit…
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The Greatest Night In Pop
There comes a time when you heed a certain call, like the call Kevin and Mike had to watch and discuss 2024’s THE GREATEST NIGHT IN POP - a documentary about the making of the iconic 80s charity single WE ARE THE WORLD, as told by the people who put it together. (Mainly Lionel Richie.) How'd it...
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Chalet Girl
2011’s CHALET GIRL stars future Rebel Alliance soldier Felicity Jones as a former skateboard champion who goes to work at a posh ski resort in the alps where she discovers snowboarding, romance, and montages about snowboarding and romance. Not necessarily in that order. Kevin and Mike talk about...
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Special Episode: Our Favorite Holiday Specials!
Kevin and Mike take a break from the world of skateboard movies for the holidays to discuss some of their favorite Christmas specials - they're joined by Kevin Eldridge from The Flopcast to talk about the storied classics everyone knows (Rudolph, Charlie Brown), some lesser-known gems (A Cosmic...
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Air (If you only see one sneaker-related movie from 2023, see this one)
The young stars of the 90s are middle aged men in the 80s in 2023’s AIR, a film based on the true story of the AIR JORDAN sneaker and NIke’s attempts to woo then-basketball rookie Michael Jordan. Kevin and Mike discuss the film, the one character in it who skateboards, how the Air Jordan sneaker...
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Special Episode: Our Favorite Vampire Movies!
Kevin and Mike break format for another special episode in honor of the Halloween season and are joined by Hanako Ricks from the Fandom Hybrid Podcast and filmmaker and bon vivant Guy Benoit to discuss our favorite vampire films! Old, new, cult, and classic - Bram Stoker's Dracula, Blade, Near...
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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
2014’s A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, was promoted as The first Iranian Vampire Western, although when I have been describing it to people I’ve said it’s the first Iranian Skateboarding Vampire Western. It’s in black and white, all the dialogue is in...
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Coming to America
This time out we discuss Eddie Murphy's late 80s hit Coming to America, a film that is packed with stars (James Earl Jones! Arsenio Hall! John Amos! Louie Anderson! Samuel L. Jackson!), packed with laughs, and packed with romance and heart. What it's not packed with is skateboarding but there's...
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Big (Yes, Tom Hanks skateboards in this.)
1988’s BIG, directed by Penny Marshall, stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, a pre-adolescent boy whose wish to be "big" transforms him physically into an adult. Kevin and Mike discuss Hanks' performance, the wave of "kids who turn into adults" films that swept cinemas circa 1987/1988, Hanks'...
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Barbie
2023’s BARBIE, directed by Greta Gerwig (who also co-wrote the film), is based on the long-running and popular doll line from Mattel. In the film Barbie (Margot Robbie) has to travel from Barbieland to the real world after suffering an existential crisis. And someone on Venice Beach has a...
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Gremlins
We're joined by Joe Crowe, co-director of DragonCon's American Science Fiction Classics Track, to discuss 1984's Gremlins (an American science fiction classic if ever there was one)! Kevin, Mike and Joe discuss the film, the creation of the PG-13 rating, the movie's tie-in novelization, Joe's...
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Observe and Report
2009’s Observe and Report, directed by Jody Hill, tells the story of mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt (played by Seth Rogen), who is called into action to stop a flasher from turning a shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Ronnie can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly...
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The Shaggy D.A.
1976’s THE SHAGGY D.A., the 19th and final film directed by Robert Stevenson for the Walt Disney Company, finds Dean Jones (the king of 60s and 70s live action Disney) playing Wilby Daniels who, for reasons too complicated to get into during this episode description, keeps transforming into a dog...
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Special Episode: Our Favorite Needle Drops!
Kevin and Mike are taking a break from watching and discussing a terrible skateboard movie and instead invited their friend Christian Campagna from the Talk About the Passion podcast to join the show this week. The three of them then proceed to rattle off their top 5 instances of popular songs...
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Glory Daze (and Kicking and Screaming, kind of)
1995’s GLORY DAZE tells the story of Jack Freeman, played by a young Ben Affleck at his most sour and unlikeable, and his four college housemates as they face graduation and make an attempt to prolong their carefree lifestyles before going their separate ways. At one point Affleck's character…
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The Crow
1994’s THE CROW, based on the comic series by James O’Barr, tells the story of ERIC DRAVEN who is resurrected one year after he and his fiance’ were brutally murdered and does the only sensible thing: paint his face like a mime, don his tightest leather pants, and then exact revenge on those who...
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Car Wash
1976’s CAR WASH, directed by Michael Schultz from a screenplay by Joel Schumacher, tells the day in the life of the employees of the titular CAR WASH as they engage in what can only be described as SHENANIGANS APLENTY. The film has a great ensemble cast, cameos from Richard Pryor and George…
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Next Friday
2000's NEXT FRIDAY is a sequel to the popular 1995 film FRIDAY - it was written by and stars rapper turned actor Ice Cube, directed by Steve Carr and is inferior to the first FRIDAY by every possible quality metric one can imagine. Still, this one has skateboarding in it so Kevin and Mike…
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Saved!
2004’s SAVED!, directed by Brian Donnelly (who also co-wrote the film) follows a teenaged girl played by Jena Malone who attends a Christian high school and, as part of an attempt to “cure” her boyfriend of his homosexuality, winds up pregnant and facing the ostracization of her classmates, most...
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Nic and Tristan Go Mega Dega!
2010’s NIC AND TRISTAN GO MEGA DEGA tells a day in the life of two 10 year old skateboarding twins - this is an obscure film (it doesn't even merit its own Wikipedia page) aimed at very young children, so Kevin enlists his young daughter to give her thoughts on the film as well. What it DOES have...
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Special Episode: Other Weird Characters from the 1980s
In this short special episode, Kevin and Mike build off their discussion of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure to discuss other weird characters from the 1980s - like Max Headroom, Mr. T, and Sgt. Slaughter. What's the difference between a character and a comedic persona? Where does professional wrestling…
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Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday
"Pee-Wee's Big Adventure", directed by Tim Burton and starring Paul Reubens as the iconic man-child Pee-Wee Herman, is an absolute delight and - despite containing a minimum amount of skateboarding - Kevin and Mike will use any excuse to rewatch it. Pee-Wee returned in the Netflix original movie...
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High Fidelity
High Fidelity, based on the novel by Nick Hornby, tells the story of Rob Gordon (John Cusack), a thirtysomething record store owner and living embodiment of a certain type of insufferable pop culture obsessed dude (I TYPED WHILE HOSTING A PODCAST ABOUT SKATEBOARD MOVIES) as he navigates love,...
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Chopping Mall
1986’s Chopping Mall tells a story as old as time: three high-tech security robots turn into maniacal killing machines and start murdering the teenage employees of a shopping mall after dark. Also: someone skateboards inside the mall. Kevin and Mike are joined by Gary Mitchel (of the horror…
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Kenny & Company
1976’s KENNY AND COMPANY, written, directed, produced, shot and edited by Don Coscarelli tells the story of young Kenny as he comes of age in 70s southern California, fighting bullies, having his first crush, and dressing up as a horrific bear-pig hybrid for Halloween. And he skateboards! Kevin…
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The Commitments
1991’s The Commitments, directed by Alan Parker and based on the book by Roddy Doyle, tells the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, a young music fanatic who assembles a group of working-class youths to form a soul band named, in case the title of the film didn't tip you off, The Commitments! We see the…
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Righteous Kill
2008’s RIGHTEOUS KILL pairs legendary thespians Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as two maverick chess-playing and little-league-coaching cops who are trying to solve a string of vigilante murders that one of them might be behind? Or the other? This movie sucks, is the synopsis. Oh, and it has a...
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Pretty in Pink
1986’s Pretty in Pink, written by John Hughes, tells a story of life, love, and social cliques among 80s high schoolers in the suburbs of Illinois. The film stars Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer and James Spader and has the bare minimum amount of skateboarding to...
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Scott Pilgrim vs.The World
2010’s SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD, directed by EDGAR WRIGHT and based on the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley, presents us with the adventures of Michael Cera’s slacker musician Scott Pilgrim - who discovers that in order to win the heart of foxy new girl in Toronto Ramona Flowers he must…
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Jackass Forever
Kevin and Mike are back and watching "Jackass Forever", the latest installment in Johnny Knoxville and company's ongoing efforts to engage in the most ludicrous stunts imaginable. Discussed in this episode: the Jackass franchise as a whole and its roots in skateboarding culture, what this latest...
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Blue Crush
Blue Crush tells the story of Anne Marie Chadwick (Kate Bosworth) and her friends as they prepare for the Pipeline surfing contest and navigate life, love and surfing the waves of Hawaii. Kevin and Mike are joined by the great Guy Benoit to discuss the intersection of surf and skateboard culture...
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Kevin and Mike watch movies in which somebody skateboards at some point. Sometimes the movie will be about skateboarding, sometimes it’ll just be some rando in the background. They will interrogate it all.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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