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Tired of the same old movies, franchises, and reboots? Us too! Join Hobert Thompson & Laura Petro as they sit down with a special guest to pitch and write what should be Hollywood's next big movie. After their brainstorm, they enlist the help of actors to do a live reading of their scripts to bring each film to life. And finally, if anyone out there is listening: PLEASE make this!
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Learn something weird.
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In the not-so-distant future, music has become a product made by corporations to keep the masses placated, maaaaaaan. When Jacklyn Marshall, a high-powered music producer for one of the monolithic record companies, makes a bet with a fellow executive that she can make a band out of human nobodies that will out-perform their hit holographic star, Co…
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Mean Girls Live! ft. ABBY SEEBER & JONO MAMMEL
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Muffed Movies Live Alert! On May 25th, 2024, we're Improvising TOY STORY! 7:30PM-8:30PM | Toy Story | Clash on Clark Muffed Movies Live comes Clash on Clark with outstanding comedian guests Miranda Hunter & Emilie Hapgood! Visit the Muffed Movies YouTube Channel Cohosts: Abby Seeber & Jono Mammel Host: Mark Soloff Instagram: @Mark_tries Tiktok: @mu…
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This time on Let's See Saw, Laura and Nate are watching the 6th Saw movie (appropriately titled Saw 6). Jigsaw is dead, but his legacy lives on via new the Jigsaw: Mark (his cop predecessor). Jigsaw-Mark is after an icky insurance guy who he makes go through a house of traps that ultimately lead to many of his coworkers' demise. But that's not all!…
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Stone Cold Traveler (w/ Kelsey Blackwell)
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An icy, doomed world. A woman searching for something across the vast tundra. A rugged hunter, a friendly robot, a monstrous creation. A world without hope gets very cold. Join The Traveler as she makes her journey across the ice, and find out if this world can be saved by the same people who ruined it... Scripts start at 1:07:42 Starring Kelsey Bl…
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Minisode 122: Script Rippers!!! (Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver)
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Script Rippers Hobert and Mike are back for their first ever sequel, returning to the very sexy moon of Veldt for more Rebellin.’ In this installment of Zach’s Synder “whatever, I’ll make my own Star Wars!” series, Kora and the rest of her gang of 2-dimensional space warriors prepare for a showdown with the empire by harvesting grain for a surprisi…
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Dune part 1 Live! ft. ILSA MORALES & KELSEY BLACKWELL
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Muffed Movies Live In MAY! Mayffed Movies? You have 2 opportunities to see Muffed Movies Live in Chicago this May 2024! May 3, 7:00PM - 9:00PM | Revenge of the Sith | Otherworld Theatre May 25, 7:30PM-8:30PM | Toy Story | Clash on Clark Guests include: Nicholas Marino, Miranda Hunter, & Tommy Corts Tickets available at the door. Visit the Muffed Mo…
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Francis is a great architect, but struggles with his daily interactions with the people around him. From standing up to his cruel boss to talking to the beautiful neighbor he has a crush on, Francis is paralyzed by the thought of making the wrong move. When he discovers a city building video game called Blueprints that allows the user to create the…
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Minisode 121: The Cold Diaries (The Tearsmith)
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A warm welcome to The Cold Diaries, in which your host Laura has fallen ill with a mysterious cold and due to her lack of energy has resorted to watching movies while simultaneously doom-scrolling through various social media apps. Let her regale you with her recap of "The Tearsmith" an Italian drama/romance that's recently come out on Netflix. Unf…
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Sit down and get ready for another thrilling venture into the world of Saw! Laura and Nate are officially half way through the horror franchise and they once again have no idea what's going to happen next. The original Jigsaw is officially no more and it's time for his secret cop accomplice to step forward into his destiny of becoming the new Jigsa…
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Minisode 119: Sleep On It (Dream Scenario, 2023)
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Good night and good morning! Hobert’s feeling sleepy, but before he heads off to dreamland, he’s watching a movie! Time to snuggle up with some cinema in this new minisode series brought to you by the letters “zzzzzz.” In this minisode, Hobert takes a look at Dream Scenario, a tale of a man who suddenly starts appearing in the dreams of random peop…
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Muffed Movies Live Alert! On April 7th, 2024, we're Improvising MEAN GIRLS! 4:30 PM at the Annoycance Theater, Chicago, IL Get your tickets here Muffed Movies Live comes to the Annoyance Theater this April to parody Mean Girls! Special guest improvisers are Chicago comedy legends, Jono Mammel and Abby Seeber! Visit the Muffed Movies YouTube Channel…
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Tis the time for another venture into the horrific world of Jigsaw and his many many horrific traps and riddles. And of course Laura and Nate are ready to host their way through their experience watching Saw 4. The franchise takes a turn as one of the side characters becomes the main protagonist so they can (obviously) tie the ALL of the movies tog…
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It's the rule of THREES, baby! As in: we've seen Saw 1, we've seen Saw 2, and now it's time to see SAW 3. Laura and Nate sit down with a bottle of wine to yet again answer the age old question: "What the hell is going to happen in this franchise next!?" This time Jigsaw is on his deathbed with his trusty Jigsaw-in-training running the show. And we'…
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Operation Toy Soldier (w/ Jared Narter-Slezak)
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Joey Ford was a mild-mannered kid getting accustomed to living in Las Vegas till he sneaks into a casino backroom wearing a fake mustache and inadvertently discovers a secret world of super spies and international crime. After lying his way onto a spy agency’s team, Joey becomes the key piece in a plot to take down a crime lord and stop a powerful …
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Minisode 116: Script Rippers!!! (Madame Web)
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Script Rippers Mike and Hobert are back, and their web connects them to Madame Web, a bafflingly bad installment in Sony’s extended Spider-Man-less Spider-Verse. Join the Script Rippers as they unpack the strange decisions that led to Dakota Johnson admonishing a picture of her dead mom for loving spiders too much, a lot of vehicular violence, and …
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GET YOUR TICKET to Muffed Movies Live: DUNE! Come see Mark, Ilsa Morales, & Kelsey Blackwell live @ Otherworld Theater (3914 N Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60613) on March 1st, 2024. It's pay-what-you-can, because Muffed Movies is meant to be enjoyed by Baronesses and Vagabondettes alike (also dudes are welcome also)! Visit the Muffed Movies YouTube C…
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When their friend Emmett dies in a freak accident, hot-headed Angelo, meek but muscular Remy, and straight-laced Tyler come together to celebrate their friend, despite not being particularly close themselves. When a drunken attempt to do a seance brings the spirit of Emmett back, the four pals set out to give their dead best friend a proper send-of…
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Minisode 115: Brothers on Brothers: The Brothers Solomon (2007)
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Sup, Bros? In this Please Make This Miniseries, host Hobert and his brother Andy discuss and review films about, for, or even by brothers. This time they shared some very off-putting smiles as they watched Will Forte and Will Arnett in The Brothers Solomon. The Brothers Solomon might have bombed, but you know what, it has its moments. Remember when…
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Goldwater’s Fresh Fruit (w/ Austin Mooney)
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Goldwater Farms has been in decline for years. Since the death of his beloved wife, Joan, Josh Goldwater has lost his interest in farming, and only his friend and helper Gary still believes in him. But Josh’s fortunes change when a strange fruit appears on his farm, a fruit that seems to be related to the recent crop circles found around his proper…
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Minisode 114: Movie Table Talk (The Birdcage)
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It's once again time for a Please Make This Minisode! Movie Table Talk is exactly what it sounds like, a group of pals sitting around a table talking about a movie. This time around, the group is talking about The Birdcage (1996) in which a cabaret owning couple put on a ruse to help their son who demands they act normal for to meet his fiance's co…
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Let's See Saw continues!!! Laura Petro and Nate Todd (resident forever besties and newfound Saw watchers) sit back down to share a bottle of wine, split a can of beer, and watch the very first Saw sequel. Will Jigsaw come to the table with more tricks up his sleeve? You bet he will! He's graduated from a booby-trapped room to a booby-trapped HOUSE …
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We recorded this in 2020, which explains the unrelenting Animal Crossing references. Muffed Movies Live - DUNE!: Come see Mark, Ilsa Morales, & Kelsey Blackwell live @ Otherworld Theater (3914 N Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60613) on March 1st, 2024. Visit the Muffed Movies YouTube Channel Cohost: Andy North Host: Mark Soloff Instagram: @Mark_tries Ti…
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Minisode 112: Please, Gabe, Watch This! (Rawhead Rex, 1986)
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Laura and Hobert sit down with their buddy Gabe Michalski to talk about Rawhead Rex, a childhood fav of Gabe’s about a demon with a stupid name that terrorizes an Irish village. This lean monster thriller is heavy on monster rampage, light on explanation. If you’ve ever wanted an hour and twenty minutes of basic slasher leading up to a showdown in …
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Gates of the Hellmouth (w/ Kerry Stevens)
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Lee and Desker are two slacker friends who prefer smoking weed in Lee’s basement and talking about their favorite fantasy novels more than pretty much anything else. For years they’ve dissected and discussed Alton P. Thornshire’s Gates of the Hellmouth series, but without the final book (banned by its publisher after a strange satanic incident) all…
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Welcome to a polite and fun new miniseries where two best friends, Laura Petro and Nate Todd set out to watch all of the Saw movies. In this minisode, they're watching the first Saw movie that's appropriately titled: Saw. Will this journey bring these two friends closer together? Will the gore-horror phase of the 2000s be just as gory as they remem…
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Minisode 110: Script Rippers!!! (Rebel Moon)
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Script Rippers Mike and Hobert are back to take a slow-mo look at part one of ??? of Zack Snyder’s ponderous Star Wars knock-off, Rebel Moon. Join the rippers as they try to piece together Netflix’s seemingly abridged edit of this space opera that sacrifices third act coherence for drumming up support for an already completed director’s cut. Can Ho…
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Phantom Menace Live pt. 2 w Dave Stecco + 2023 Pretty Good Awards
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Phantom Menace Live concludes + the first ever Pretty Good Awards! Visit the YouTube Channel Recorded at Otherworld Theater on May 6, 2023. Cohost: Dave Stecco Twitter: @DaveStecco Host: Mark Soloff YouTube: @muffedmovies Tiktok: @muffedmoviespodcast Instagram: @Mark_tries Facebook: Mark Tries Twitch: muffedmovies Support the show: Patreon Ko-Fi Th…
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Minisode 109: Inside the Writer’s Room (The Window Guy)
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A long withstanding legend within each Please Make This episode is the mysterious writer’s room, where your hosts step inside after a wondrous pitch only to return with their fresh scripts hot off the presses. But what happens behind that closed door where there’s no microphones and the magic really happens? Tune in as Hobert gives you a tour of hi…
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Scott Payne is an aspiring actor who books the opportunity of a lifetime as the TV pitchman for a new window cleaner. When his enthusiastic pitching becomes a pop culture sensation, Scott is propelled into fortune and fame, but deep down, all he really cares about is telling the public about a product he’s so passionate about, it borders on love. A…
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On a desolate future Earth, workers made of undead people enhanced with mechanical parts toil away in a factory. All day and night they make things the living need, but is there anyone left to use the household items they create? When one worker suddenly remembers his past life, he sets out to learn who he was, and remind his fellow workers what it…
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Minisode 108: Inside the Writer's Room (Syrens)
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A long withstanding legend within each Please Make This episode is the mysterious writer's room, where your hosts step inside after a wondrous pitch only to return with their fresh scripts hot off the presses. But what happens behind that closed door where there's no microphones and the magic really happens? Tune in as Laura finally breaks down thi…
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We've got way better roly-poly bowling ball droids. youtube.com/@muffedmovies/featured Recorded at Otherworld Theater on May 6, 2023. Cohost: Dave Stecco Twitter: @DaveStecco Host: Mark Soloff YouTube: @muffedmovies Tiktok: @muffedmoviespodcast Instagram: @Mark_tries Facebook: Mark Tries Twitch: muffedmovies Support the show: Patreon Ko-Fi Threadle…
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When six alien explorers visit an uncharted, water-covered planet, their mission is simple. Very simple, really. Just collect a water sample to prove the existence of water to their galactic empire’s ever growing search for resources. With time to kill before they return to their command ship, the researchers decide to party it up on a planet that …
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Minisode 107: Script Rippers!!! (Five Nights at Freddy’s)
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Script Rippers Mike and Hobert are back with special guest Laura to spend five nights (or 58ish minutes) talking about Five Nights at Freddy’s, a film about an amateur dream detective who fights ghost robots that isn’t nearly fun or cool or interesting as that premise promises. Well, at least The Youth like it! Tune in as the rippers tear apart thi…
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Beyond Thunderdome pt 3 w Dave Stecco
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There's no hydration like ape hydration. youtube.com/@muffedmovies/featured Cohost: Dave Stecco Twitter: @DaveStecco Host: Mark Soloff YouTube: @muffedmovies Tiktok: @muffedmoviespodcast Instagram: @Mark_tries Facebook: Mark Tries Twitch: muffedmovies Support the show: Patreon Ko-Fi Threadless store Or just rate & review the podcast! It all helps, …
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Minisode 106: Please, Gabe, Watch This! (Frankenstein Unbound, 1990)
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Laura and Hobert sit down with their buddy Gabe Michalski to talk about Frankenstein Unbound, a surreal retelling of the classic Mary Shelley novel that adds time travel, super cars, and reframes Shelley as a non-fiction writer. You only have 8 years till John Hurt destroys the timeline so he can have sex with a historic author, so tune in to this …
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Please Revisit This: REM Cycles, Pt. 1
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Join Laura and Hobert as they sit down to revisit REM Cycles, the almost-finished rough draft of a film conceived during wind-down of the lock-down. A lot has changed for the hosts since then, so it’s time to sit down, crack open a beverage, and re-explore the dreamscape-filled romance/sci-fi/coming-of-age script with the intention to tear the orig…
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Thunderdome is technically a thunderless hemisphere. Sorry bout it. youtube.com/@muffedmovies/featured Cohost: Dave Stecco Twitter: @DaveStecco Host: Mark Soloff YouTube: @muffedmovies Tiktok: @muffedmoviespodcast Instagram: @Mark_tries Facebook: Mark Tries Twitch: muffedmovies Support the show: Patreon Ko-Fi Threadless store Or just rate & review …
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The Customer is Always Right (w/ Nick Marino)
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Chester Callahan’s never been good at working. Lazy but charismatic, Chester is better at managing expectations than he is at meeting them. When he finally loses his bland office job, he treats himself to a burger at his favorite local joint, and notices a dip in the quality. Spotting an opportunity to make Barn Burger a better place, Chester adopt…
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Secrets of the Heart (w/ Jessica Mance)
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Dan and Kate are two stuck-up trivia buffs given a chance to appear on America’s favorite game show for couples: Secrets of the Heart. Confident in their ability to win on brains alone, they quickly realize the show is more intense than they’d anticipated, featuring a host who’s as sinister as he is sincere and a fast-paced quiz pitting them agains…
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Drink for Ramora references! youtube.com/@muffedmovies/featured Cohost: Dave Stecco Twitter: @DaveStecco Host: Mark Soloff YouTube: @muffedmovies Instagram: @Mark_tries Tiktok: @muffedmoviespodcast Facebook: Mark Tries Twitch: muffedmovies Support the show: Patreon Ko-Fi Threadless store Or just rate & review the podcast! It all helps, you cheeky H…
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Brian, Stephanie and David are three college friends who are about to move into a brand new apartment together over the course of a weekend. When the movers bring their furniture and drop off their stuff, they discover that there’s a mysterious trunk accidentally left behind. Agreeing to leave the trunk alone till the movers return on Monday, they …
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On the day of his brother’s wedding, Jeff Solomon realizes he’s made a huge mistake. The family’s constant screw-up since his college track glory days, Jeff was given just one thing to do for the big day: take the marriage license to the county clerk’s office. Heading out on foot, can this track star make it to the office before it closes? And why …
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Goblet of Fire Live! w Jen Connor & Nick Marino
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Please click the link below to subscribe to our new YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@muffedmovies/featured Cohosts: Jen Connor & Nick Marino Instagram: @choosejencon & @nicholasbmarino Host: Mark Soloff YouTube: @muffedmovies Instagram: @Mark_tries Tiktok: @muffedmoviespodcast Facebook: Mark Tries Twitch: muffedmovies Support the show: Pat…
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Sorcerer's Stone Live! w Dave Stecco
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MUFFED MOVIES IS LIVE AT OTHERWORLD THEATRE JULY 2023! JULY 8th (cohosts Jen Connor & Nick Marino) JULY 15th (cohost Dave Stecco) JULY 22nd (cohosts Jen Connor & Blake Hood) TICKETS: otherworldtheatre.org Cohost: Dave Stecco Twitter: @DaveStecco Host: Mark Soloff Instagram: @Mark_tries Tiktok: @muffedmoviespodcast YouTube: @muffedmovies Facebook: M…
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Minisode 105: A Family Affair: Miami Connection (1987)
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You know what they say: It's not a family movie night unless you're family is there! Please Make This host, Laura sits down with her brother Max and Sister-in-law Ellie to watch a movie that Ellie once described as "I never want to watch that again" it's Miami Connection (and 1987). A once lost film that was salvaged and released to the world, this…
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No one knows why the animals turned on us, but when they did, their superior numbers and sudden super intelligence overwhelmed humanity immediately. In the aftermath of the attack, groups of survivors make their way to a signal, something called The Ark. But what is The Ark? A way to escape? A trap set up by the animals? Or something worse? Scripts…
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The Road Warrior pt. 3 w Dave Stecco (and a sample of Phantom Menace Live!)
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LIVE SHOWS ARE BACK! SATURDAYS, 3PM @ OTHERWORLD THEATER (3914 N. CLARK ST. CHICAGO, IL) JUNE 17th (cohost Dave Stecco) JUNE 24th (cohosts Blake Hood & Nick Marino) JULY 1st (cohosts Jono Mammel & Carlos Rivera) JULY 8th (cohosts Jen Connor & Nick Marino) JULY 15th (cohost Dave Stecco) JULY 22nd (cohosts Jen Connor & Blake Hood) TICKETS: otherworld…
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In this PMT Miniseries, Hobert and Mike sit down to tear up a movie they didn’t like so they can piece it back together to make it...better? Worse? Less film-able? Whatever, they’re not professionals, just two dudes who love dinosaurs. In this episode, they sit down with the bare-bones sci-fi thriller 65 to see if they can save a film with a great …
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Jeremy Parker was just a park ranger trying to do good and help people enjoy nature when he discovered a secret source of power that connected him to the Bear Force, a magically-powered team of human/bear hybrids who protect nature and mankind. When Bear Force’s greatest foe returns to reignite his campaign of vengeance, Parker and the team must co…
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