Podcasts by Gleaming The Tube
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.
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Air (If you only see one sneaker-related movie from 2023, see this one) from 2023-11-27T21:00:14
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...
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Special Episode: Our Favorite Vampire Movies! from 2023-10-27T11:43:11
Kevin and Mike break format for another special episode in honor of the Halloween season and are joined by Hanako Ricks from the Listen
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/gleaming-the-tube/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night/">A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night</a><small> from 2023-10-21T09:32:06</small></h5>
<p class="card-text"><p>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...</p>
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/gleaming-the-tube/coming-to-america/">Coming to America</a><small> from 2023-10-02T22:56:25</small></h5>
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Big (Yes, Tom Hanks skateboards in this.) from 2023-09-18T17:43:08
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' perfor...
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Observe and Report from 2023-06-27T23:03:16
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 shopp...
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The Shaggy D.A. from 2023-06-11T11:15:17
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,...
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Special Episode: Our Favorite Needle Drops! from 2023-06-05T18:40:22
Kevin and Mike are taking a break from watching and discussing a terrible skateboard movie and instead invited their friend Christian Campagna from the Listen
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/gleaming-the-tube/glory-daze-and-kicking-and-screaming-kind-of/">Glory Daze (and Kicking and Screaming, kind of)</a><small> from 2023-05-15T20:53:28</small></h5>
<p class="card-text"><p>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 p...</p>
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/gleaming-the-tube/the-crow/">The Crow</a><small> from 2023-04-10T21:21:39</small></h5>
<p class="card-text"><p>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 ...</p>
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/gleaming-the-tube/car-wash/">Car Wash</a><small> from 2023-04-03T21:08:49</small></h5>
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/gleaming-the-tube/next-friday/">Next Friday</a><small> from 2023-03-22T21:29:14</small></h5>
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Nic and Tristan Go Mega Dega! from 2023-02-12T09:42:19
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 ch...
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Special Episode: Other Weird Characters from the 1980s from 2023-02-06T20:22:39
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. Slaughte...
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Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday from 2023-01-30T20:09:50
"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 skateboard...
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High Fidelity from 2022-11-22T12:33:27
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 cu...
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Chopping Mall from 2022-10-28T17:09:42
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. Al...
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Kenny&Company from 2022-10-21T09:56:34
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 hi...
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The Commitments from 2022-10-10T17:45:51
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 fo...
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Righteous Kill from 2022-09-23T19:39:41
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 t...
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Pretty in Pink from 2022-08-13T00:26:37
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 Stan...
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Scott Pilgrim vs.The World from 2022-07-07T00:42:30
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 Pilgri...
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Jackass Forever from 2022-06-04T23:19:49
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 t...
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Blue Crush from 2022-03-31T14:56:03
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 ...
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The Amazing Spider-Man from 2022-03-05T09:50:27
2012's The Amazing Spider-Man may not be the most beloved cinematic outing of the popular comic book hero but it's the only Spider-Man movie that has our Friendly Neighborhood crime fighter doin...
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La La Land from 2022-02-08T20:28:49
2016's "La La Land" is a musical about an aspiring actress and a jazz bro who sing and dance while chasing their Hollywood dreams and falling in love, and it has the bare minimum of skateboardin...
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Bill&Ted’s Excellent Adventure from 2022-01-17T17:47:59
Kevin and Mike are joined by special guest Shaun Rosado to discuss 1989's time-travel classic Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure! Together they cover the film, the very tiny bit of skateboarding c...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child from 2021-10-24T08:50:38
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child finds the be-sweatered nightmare killer Freddy Krueger attempting to enter people's dreams through the unborn child of Alice the Dream Master. We thi...
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The Skateboard Wiz (1978 episode of ”Wonder Woman”) from 2021-10-10T09:13:22
We're breaking format a little bit this week and discussing an episode of a tv show instead of a movie but we think you'll feel it's justified: Kevin Eldridge from The Flopcast joins Kevin and M...
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The Search for Animal Chin&Bones Brigade: An Autobiography from 2021-09-26T09:45:44
It's a double feature this week as we take a look at the seminal 80s skateboard crew The Bones Brigade! Kevin and Mike watch the famous 1987 skate video "The Search for Animal Chin" (the first v...
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Skateboard from 2021-09-07T15:15
We're back for season two! And we've got a doozy of a skateboarding movie for y'all: 1978's SKATEBOARD is a "Bad News Bears" ripoff featuring skateboarding instead of baseball and Allen Garfield...
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Skater Girl from 2021-07-07T17:45:55
2021's Skater Girl tells the story of Prerna, a teen in rural India who discovers a life-changing passion for skateboarding. How do the tropes of skateboard cinema work when transposed to a diff...
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North Hollywood from 2021-06-24T15:30:08
2021's North Hollywood tells the story of Michael, who wants to become a pro skateboarder despite his working class Dad's objections - it's a plot unlike anything we've yet seen here on GLEAMING...
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The Simpsons Movie from 2021-06-01T14:04:14
2007's "The Simpsons Movie" took the beloved television program to the big screen - Kevin and Mike chat about how the movie compares to the show, engage in the time-honored tradition of figuring...
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City Hunter from 2021-05-21T23:15:54
1993's "City Hunter" features the great Jackie Chan in a bonkers action comedy based on a popular manga series. (And yes, Jackie does jump on a skateboard at one point.) The film is sort of like...
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The Skateboard Kid from 2021-05-03T16:16:46
1993's "The Skateboard Kid" has everything you'd want in a movie about a magical talking skateboard voiced by Dom DeLuise - Timothy Busfield playing a hapless television station manager, the mom...
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Citizen Kane from 2021-04-01T01:10:02
"Citizen Kane", the debut feature from the legendary Orson Welles, is considered by many to be the finest motion picture ever made, and its pioneering use of deep focus camera shots and really s...
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MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate from 2021-03-03T17:00
2001's "MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate" finds Jack, the hockey-playing chimpanzee from the first "Most Vertical Primate" film, leaving his ice skates behind for the exciting world of professional ...
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Street Dreams from 2021-02-15T21:34:40
Rob Dyrdek conquered reality television with his MTV shows and then set his sights on conquering skateboard cinema with 2009's Street Dreams, a movie he co-wrote and produced. Street Dreams tell...
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Mumford / Mallrats: The Jason Lee Episode from 2021-02-08T11:28:02
1999's Mumford is a bizarre comedy/drama about a small town and the fake therapist who shakes it up and we mostly discuss it because it features Jason Lee skateboarding in it. We also talk about...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 2021-01-31T17:27:40
1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (based on the independent comic book series) was the most successful independent film of all time when it was released. A bonkers hodge-podge of pizza, ninjut...
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Dogtown and Z-Boys / Lords of Dogtown from 2021-01-25T18:40:46
It's a double feature! Kevin and Mike watch the 2001 skateboarding documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys and then also watch the 2005 movie Lords of Dogtown which tells the same story using actors, stu...
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Back to the Beach from 2021-01-05T17:17:17
Kevin and Mike watch and discuss 1987's "Back to the Beach", a parody of and homage to 60s beach party movies starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. This movie has everything - beach pun...
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The Christmas Chronicles from 2020-12-21T16:14:32
It's a holiday spooktacular as Kevin and Mike watch the made-for-Netflix feature "The Christmas Chronicles", which features Kurt Russell as a Santa Claus who delivers Bones Brigades skateboards ...
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Hard Ticket to Hawaii from 2020-12-08T00:08:42
We're back! This time Kevin and Mike tackle 1987's "Hard Ticket to Hawaii", a direct-to-video-and-late-night-premium-cable action film featuring a mutant snake puppet, a frisbee-related beheadin...
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Back to the Future from 2020-11-04T20:56:15
Back to the Future is a beloved science fiction comedy movie from the 1980s with a surprisingly large amount of skateboarding in it. Kevin and Mike discuss how much they like this movie, Kevin's...
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V/H/S Viral from 2020-10-27T17:30:09
In our efforts to find a spooky movie with some skateboarding we settled on the found footage horror anthology film "V/H/S Viral" - a film we did not enjoy but that does have a whole segment dev...
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Skate Kitchen from 2020-10-19T21:24:36
This week's skateboard movie is Crystal Moselle's Skate Kitchen from 2018, about a teenage girl who befriends a group of female skateboarders in New York City by connecting with them via Instagr...
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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol from 2020-10-12T23:46:14
Kevin and Mike tackle 1987's Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol which, along with the usual hijinx from Mahoney and the gang, features an extended skateboarding sequence with the Bones Brigade...
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Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator from 2020-10-06T00:12:45
Kevin and Mike take on their first documentary film: Helen Stickler's "Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator" tells the story of Mark "Gator" Ragowski, a skateboarding icon who is currently serving...
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Gleaming the Tube Episode 0 - Here We Go from 2020-09-11T16:01:10
Kevin and Mike lay out what they plan on doing with the show and generally test out their microphones. Mike talks about skateboarding.
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