*This episode originally published in October of 2022* Welcome to Meatball Salad, the meaty pop culture podcast that keeps it light. What do Ke$ha, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin McCallister, Shaggy, Selina Meyer, Frank Egglehofer, and Electric Six have in common? They’re all responsible for words that have gotten wedged in our brains over the years. We bro…

*This episode originally published in March of 2023* This is Meatball Salad, the meaty pop culture podcast that keeps it light. On this episode, we chat with a very good pal, Katie McCurley, about our shared love of rewatching TV episodes. Again and again and again. Is that because it’s fun? Or is it to numb the anxieties of daily life? Maybe a lit…

Welcome back to Meatball Salad, the meaty pop culture podcast that keeps it light. We invited C2R Research Czar Tony to join us for a little friendly competition while drafting our favorite albums, songs, and music videos from 1995. It’s a pretty great trip down memory lane if you’re of a certain age. You might even learn something! Apologies in ad…

Prince Jeffrey, President & Co-Founder of C2R Enterprises, has a very special announcement about what you can expect to see in your podcast feed in the immediate future.

Can you Christmas believe your Christmas eyes? We're just in time with a Christmas surprise. Join Jeff, Angie, and special guest C2R Research Czar Tony as they draft their favorite Christmas movies (and characters). Yule love it.

Can you believe it's already time for C2R Seasonal Favorites?? Gobble gobble! I think you get it. Thanksgiving = Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Join Angie and Jeff as they wander around with Steve Martin and John Candy, traversing the Midwest in an attempt to get home for the holidays. We've got personal travel horror stories, anecdotes about how Je…

Yes hi hello we’re back randomly just in time for Halloween. As the title suggests, this episode is kind of like your favorite combo meal at a certain crappy American diner chain: a little bit of everything (everything spooky that is). In the same way you pick your favorite candy out of the pillow case first after trick-or-treating, Jeff and Angie …

Can you believe it's been a whole three decades of butt-whippin' time? We wanted to commemorate the occasion by re-releasing one of our favorite episodes with a hopefully fun surprise at the end (which Jeff calls an "Easter Egg," but if you announce that out loud, it's not really an "Easter Egg" anymore, is it?). Please take this time to sit and co…

Hey listener! You got somethin’ hangin’ outta your nose! We’re overjoyed to share this episode in time for the 30th anniversary of Rookie of the Year, an iconic baseball-themed movie picked lovingly by Angie. Join us as we reminisce about one of the movie’s filming locations—and our home for more than a decade—Oak Park, Illinois. Also featured: Jef…

You may have heard us mention C2R Research Czar Tony in past episodes. Well, he’s a real person, and we had the pleasure of having him live in the studio for C2R’s very first Cinematic Draft. Join Jeff, Angie, and Tony as they nervously survey their draft boards and take their top picks in the categories of Drama, Comedy, Action/Crime/Horror, Block…

It’s time to shuffle off to Buffalo with Angie’s choice of movie: Stepping Out, starring the legendary Liza Minnelli. Queen Beas used to LOVE watching classic dance films growing up, and she would go on to do some dancing of her own as she emulated the likes of Liza, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Gene Kelly, all while wearing very spangly, sparkl…

“Yeah, I used to be a podcaster. It’s a tough racket.” *lifts glass* If Jeff had a dollar for every time he put this movie on only for Angie to fall asleep before the ten minute mark, he’d have close to 82 grand, which just happens to be equal to Shelley “The Machine” Levene’s bogus deal with Harriet and Blah Blah Nyborg. Well, that’s not the case …

Angie introduces Jeff to Rachel Flax, the carefree mother of two daughters, Charlotte and Kate, who just can’t seem to stay in one place for too long. We examine all the “advice” Mrs. Flax has to offer, gush over a young and upcoming Winona Ryder, and decide where we stand on Cher’s performance. So, hit the mermaid play button and have a mermaid go…

He is a robot. He is a cop. He is a RoboCop. You'll gladly buy this podcast for a dollar because that's about how much we deserve for the sheer lack of research on this episode and our general unfamiliarity with the character. Oops! But don't listen to me. It's still a fun ride-along through Old Detroit. It's as enjoyable as watching ED-209 try to …

Welcome to our cozy crypt…do we have a movie for you! Our second pick for Cruel 2 Rewind: Spookums Edition 2022 is one of the first examples of big budget horror movie gore that Prince Jeffrey ever laid eyes on as a kid: John Carpenter’s The Thing. Join us as we dissect the gory goopy gloppy grossness, the sweet-yet-gnarly signature synths, and wha…

Halloween’s comin’, the spookiest time of year, so we’re kicking off C2R Spookums Edition 2022 with THE STUFF, a 1985 “cult classic.” The Stuff is a “delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth” that’s marketed as the “newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth.” How could you go wrong with gross-out effects and zomb…

We’re kicking summer off right with one of Angie’s favorite summertime flicks from 1995: The Baby-Sitters Club, based on the popular book series by Ann M. Martin. Angie was a big fan of the series, but not so much babysitting in real life. She gave up her stint in the profession by age 16. So, we thought it would be fun to put Jeff, an inexperience…

Get in losers, it’s Angie's turn this week. We’re here for another one of her favorite 90’s teen rom-coms: She’s All That. Hot shot, Zack Siler, makes a bet with his friends to turn nerdy outcast, Laney Boggs, into prom queen. He has just six weeks to get Laney to take her glasses off so everyone realizes how pretty she is!!! OMG. Do you think it w…

C2R was overdue for another Batcast (especially with all the hype surrounding Matt Reeves' The Batman) so Prince Jeffrey and Queen Beas decided to revisit the last time the Dark Knight rebooted in 2005. Of course we're talking about Christian Bale’s first appearance in the cape and cowl: Batman Begins. That guy always seems to be beginning, and we …

WE’RE ON THE AIR, SLED GODS. Angie was feeling “very Olympic” last month and picked an all-time favorite, Cool Runnings, in the spirit of the 2022 Beijing games (if you even noticed the Olympics happened last month). Like Jeff with Wayne’s World, Cool Runnings was one of the first movies Angie memorized all the way through. She practiced her Sanka …

Hello? Is this thing on? Hey, we’re back! We missed you. And we’re stoked this week to discuss an iconic comedy that turned 30 years young in February: Wayne’s World. Based on the Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name, Wayne’s World follows Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) as their cable access show gets picked up by a sleazy produc…

What’s spookums season without a good ol' exorcism? We’re digging into Exorcist III this week for some extra spooks and scares from 1990. The film stars everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, George C. Scott, and Brad Dourif, who famously played Wormtongue in the Lord of the Rings films. Did you know there are some creepy true crime tie-ins to this movie?…

Wait until you sink your teeth into this second episode of C2R Spookums Edition, Michael. We’re revisiting the teen horror comedy, The Lost Boys, from 1987. The movie follows two brothers who move with their single mother to the fictional town of Santa Clara, California, and discover that the area is a haven for vampires and big, muscle-y saxophone…

C2R Spookums Edition is here! You might even call it…Son of Spookums?? We have a full month of goofs and spooks planned for you. To kick us off, we’re continuing our Batman Odyssey (that is, watching Batman movies Angie hasn’t seen yet) with Batman & Robin, which hit theaters in 1997 and stars George Clooney and C2R Hall of Famer Arnold Schwarzeneg…

In this very special episode, we chat with Lisa Downs, director and producer of Life After the Navigator. The documentary details the making of Flight of the Navigator and examines the life of child star, Joey Cramer, who experienced difficulties after starring in the film. It’s a true celebration of this childhood classic (which we had a blast wat…

Our C2R Cruel Summer Series must sadly come to an end this week with our look at an early-2000s Disney flick. Once upon a time 20 years ago, Teen Queen Beas watched The Princess Diaries, a movie that, over the course of two decades, would transform from a guilty pleasure watched behind closed doors into a shared favorite with her college gal pals. …

Yes hi hello to you, beloved listener. The third installment of our C2R Cruel Summer series is a Jeff pick: the summer action and adventure blockbuster from 1997, Con Air. After being wrongfully imprisoned for defending his wife in a bar fight, Cameron Poe (played by Nic Cage) does 50 million prison push-ups and then boards a flight to finally go h…

Gooooood day, listeners. Well, it’s another episode here for you from WC2R, The Breast. We’re watching a joint pick for the second installment of our C2R Cruel Summer series, the satirical comedy from 2001, Wet Hot American Summer. We cannonball into what this movie meant to us separately back in our younger days and what it means to us now as a co…

School’s out, camp’s open, the pool’s full, and the bees are buzzing. Our C2R Cruel Summer series kicks off with Angie’s pick, the 1991 coming-of-age comedy-drama, My Girl. Although this is one of the saddest and most morbid movies we've done, Angie is nonetheless excited to turn the tables on Prince Jeffrey by showing him an infamous pop culture r…

It’s time for another glorious listener pick! We take a journey to a land filled with myth, magic, and people named “Burglekutt,” where a young man is chosen to carry out a dangerous adventure to save an overly expressive baby from an evil queen and has to do it all with Val Kilmer! You guessed it: we’re watching Willow from 1988, the dark fantasy …

Prince Jeffrey is headed back to the Fire Swamp, but this time he’s joined by two surprise guests (Queen Beas is sitting this one out in order to preserve their mawwiage). You know and love their voices from their many wacky voicemails…now join us in welcoming Spicy Pete and C2R Super Fan Will to the program! Jeff selfishly wanted to talk to people…

Praise Jesus Lord God in Heaven—we’re getting spiritual on this week’s episode. And when we say “spiritual,” we mean we’re following Deloris, a Reno lounge singer turned nun, as she takes cover in a convent to hide from the mob. Yep, you guessed it: we’re talking about the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg hit Sister Act, a favorite fish-out-of-water comedy tha…

We’re excited to leave high school in the past where it belongs and get back to our regularly scheduled C2R programming. Jeff is up this month with an 80s classic known for being one of the first examples of CGI on film, Flight of the Navigator. We also chat about Rolling Stone’s recent list of the 100 greatest sitcoms of all time, and we suffer th…

We close the book on our anniversary month by celebrating (and cringing at) all things high school with the C2R Class of ‘21 Superlatives. In other words: It’s a best-of-style clip show! Join us as we take a look back and talk about some of our favorite episodes, moments, clips and drops from the past year. Thank you so much for hanging out with us…

A year ago today, we released our first two episodes of C2R, so what better way to celebrate our one-year anniversary than with a COOL-to-rewind movie from both of us: Napoleon Dynamite. High school is a special, horrific time and we can’t get enough of the movies that take us back there. How did this uniquely oddball movie manage to strike a chord…

For our one-year anniversary month, the theme is everyone’s favorite peak time of life: HIGH SCHOOL. Thanks to our dear listeners for picking the first movie in this series, Can’t Hardly Wait. Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Ethan Embry star in this “school’s out, let’s rage” flick. It’s a who’s who of late 90s teen movie stars and has a rockin’ soundtrac…

Here we go with our second dance movie (and it certainly won’t be the last). Angie shares another favorite from high school, Save the Last Dance, which just hit its 20-year anniversary. Jeff puts his best dance pants on to get into this early 2000s teen classic and answers an important question: Does Julia Stiles belong in the C2R Hall of Fame? Buc…

We’re diving into the sewers this week to chat about one of Jeff’s favorite childhood movies (and arcade games), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 1990. Before we get into the good stuff, we have a lot to catch up on with our new bi-weekly schedule: We sound the Tim Taylor Alarm for some hot-off-the-press Tim and Al news, Jeff ponders where his “ed…

We’re rounding out our two-part Cruel to Be Mine: Smoochums Edition with the infamous adventure-romance-kissing-book movie, The Princess Bride. This is one of the movies that fueled the idea for this show: Jeff grew up watching it while Angie had never seen or even heard of it. Find out what Angie thinks of one of the most important movies of Jeff’…

We’re kicking off our two-part Cruel to Be Mine: Smoochums Edition series with one of the quintessential romance movies of our generation, The Notebook. Smoochums Edition is all about celebrating the kind of gushy, smoochy movies you typically save for the cheesiest of Valentine’s Day celebrations, and this 2004 smoochfest fits the bill perfectly. …

Hey listeners, it’s cookie time this week for Angie’s pick, Troop Beverly Hills. This 1989 flick starring Shelley Long was a staple growing up, when Angie dreamed of a magical place called Beverly Hills. Come to find out, it’s a whimsical who’s who of 80s TV and film celebrities. And in other news, Angie finally finds out why her mom didn’t put her…

“Can you smell what The Rock is cook—” wait sorry what we mean to say is, “Welcome to The Rock!” We venture back to 1996 when mommy’s special little Prince Jeffrey saw his first R-rated movie in the theater, starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage: The Rock. Angie is thrilled to finally see the source of countless Saturday Night Live celebrity imper…

Happy New Year, C2R listeners! We stumble into 2021 with Angie’s pick, 9 to 5, which just hit its 40th anniversary. Angie introduces Jeff to Violet, Judy and Doralee, the badass working women who take matters into their own hands when they’re sick and tired of their sexist, egotistical, son-of-a-bitch boss. Find out how this office satire about wom…

Our nephew, the coolest five-year-old on the block, had a very special C2R request for a movie featuring his all-time favorite superhero! Join us as we dive into Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for our second-ever bonus episode. We cover it all: the importance of doodling on your schoolwork and making sound effects, Miles’ custom Spidey costume, …

Welcome to the final installment of our very first C2R Seasonal Favorites series, something we hope will be an annual tradition. Join us as we take a look at a short Disney film that young Prince Jeffrey was pretty much raised on, Mickey's Christmas Carol. But before we get to the movie, we get a Christmas miracle in the form of a voicemail apology…

The holiday season is in full swing this week at the C2R Network. For the second installment of our C2R Seasonal Favorites series, we’re discussing an obscure 90s gem from Angie’s childhood, All I Want for Christmas. We kick things off with more toy talk, fun Christmas drops and a surprise look at a new Lifetime movie that defies description. The h…

The holiday season is upon us so that means it’s time for Christmas movies! We’re kicking off C2R Seasonal Favorites edition with Jingle All the Way. This 1996 flick features a triple threat of C2R hall-of-famers: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, and Phil Hartman. Jingle All the Way is loosely based on the Cabbage Patch doll frenzy of the 80s, so in …

It’s time for another listener pick! Today we’re doing the Luc Besson sci-fi-action-comedy from 1997, The Fifth Element, which has been requested multiple times. In this densely packed, overstimulating 127 minutes, we’re shot into the 23rd century where Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich have the fate of the world in their hands. Nobody talks to himse…

It's Jeff's turn this week, and he picked a bonafide 80s classic: The NeverEnding Story, a tale about Fantasia, a land threatened by "The Nothing," a darkness that destroys everything it touches (which can only be defeated with the help of a human child). If Jeff knows anything, it’s that Angie is super into fantasy-type deals that involve rockmen,…

Hey listeners! How are we doing? It’s been an intense couple of weeks, and we’re excited to be back with our regular scheduled sillies this month. We’ve got voicemails to catch up on (yes, Super Fan Will is one of them) and fun updates on what we’ve got cooking for C2R. Angie is up with her pick: Miss Congeniality. This light-action-rom-com was a f…