Episode 497: The Tourney of American Treasures

The big 5-0-0 approaches, but there are still movie discussions to be had before then! On the 497th excursion into podcast mediocrity, Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessDrEarl chat a bit, then get to Birthday Movies -- Sully is 5 years old! Wicker Park is 15 years old! And somehow the math is off, and The Shawshank Redemption is... 27 years old?

Then, we find the next movie role to make the Big Bracket... and it's a intertwined battle of two American treasures, one being K Costner and the other being M Keaton.

From Birdman to Johnny Dangerously to Eliot Ness to Roy McAvoy, some of our favorite movies and movie characters do battle, plus a great conversation on the legacy of Keaton's Batman, and Peak Whitney.

Episode 389: The Best of the Worst (1990s)

In the second part of the new Best of the Worst series, Mikey, Dave and #TwitterlessDrEarl look way back to five years ago... or 25, as it were... to find the dreck of the years 1990 to 1999.

And of course, it's the dreck that the guys absolutely love.

First up, the IMDb game, guessing the movies based on the IMDb acting roster, naming the actors one by one until someone shouts the answer.

Then, the favorite of the awful, the beloved of the beguiled, the truly best of the worst... Nic Cage mediocrity... Tom Hanks trash... Costner crap... Swayze swine... Keanu hullabaloo... and Heather Locklear.

Enjoy this walk down Meh Movie Lane, and let the guys know your favorites!

Episode 303 - Overstuffed Movie Delights

You'd think that with discussing long movies, Dave, Mikey & Pinky would make it a long episode. Ironically, it only takes them an hour to tell you about their favorite movies that clock in at 150 minutes or more.

And what discussion about being long winded would be complete without the long winded Film Historian himself, the Wit Stillman fan, the Brie Lover (Allison, Larsen & the cheese), the Terrance Malick Apologist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Proctology, Dr Earl.

Kicking off the episode, Birthday Movies reminds you of the fabulous films that came out in previous Novembers like Fred Claus (2007) and Starship Troopers (1997) and Piranha II (1982) and of course Dave's 50th favorite film of all time, The Bodyguard!

Plus, a great reminder of Dr Earl's official diagnosis concerning the death of Whitney Houston.

Then, a rousing game of Denzel, with names like Harrison Ford and Martin Starr and Sam Waterston and of course, Denzel Washington!

Then, the Top Five takes on "overstuffed" movies, as in, those movies running 2 and a half hours or longer.  The crew gives movies ranging from 153 minutes to a whopping 295 minutes... and if you watched all 20 of these films straight in a row, you'd be watching for almost 65 straight hours.

Overstuffed films like Magnolia... Heat... Short Cuts... a Lord of the Rings film... JFK... and if you've ever wondered what is the most Inuit movie ever made, please pull up a sitting room chair to Dr. Earl's pretentious corner.

Also, Mikey's Wyatt Earp loses again to Dave's Tombstone.

And finally, America's favorite movie podcast segment featuring the musical stylings of OMD... Pretty in Pink!

Episode 295: Sidewalk Review // Fall Movie Preview

Welcome back to the best movie podcast you're listening to at this very moment, with Mikey, Dave, and Pinky attempting to tickle your movie senses.

Joining the guys in-studio is both Wit Stillman Fan, Terrence Malick Apologist, Lover of All Things Brie (Alison, Larsen, Cheese), Film Historian Extraordinaire & World Renowned Urologist Dr Earl, and then Miss Independent, Friend of the Show Jeremy Burgess.

After a quick introduction, plus a rundown of movies that have eminated from Birmingham's Sidewalk Film Fest, and a shout out to Mr Worldwide Pit Bull, the guys get into a rousing round of The Ryan Phillippe Game -- Morgan Freeman! Steven Spielberg! Kevin Spacey!  And much more, including a Triggered Dr. Earl.

A Sidewalk Film Fest brings a quick review of several movies that ran in the annual film festival in Birmingham, including the Whitney Houston documentary "Can I Be Me?", the Baltimore step-team doc "Step", some Yiddish language movie that only Burgess could love, and a flick that hit theaters over the summer, "A Ghost Story".

Then, the Fall Movie Preview, taking you from September to November and all the major films set to debut in theaters.

Among topics and movies discussed... The genius of Ed Harris... Stephen King movies... 70s tennis... Tom Cruise's strange role... "mother!"'s strange trailer... a lesson on Denis Villenueve's name... another Noah Baumbach film about family... "The Justice League Cloverfield"... Greta Gerwig... Burgess' top Indy films coming soon... Frances McDormands Oscar chances...

Episode 194: Top 100... 50 thru 41

"I had talked about 'The Player'... Pinky had talked about 'The Fighter'... and then... 'The Bodyguard'. Uhhh..."

It's another special episode as we crest the hill on the 100 Favorite Films of all time, working our way into the All Time Top 50!

Great discussions on Barry Levinson's "Good Morning Vietnam"... Lots of Tarantino love... a Kevin Kline triple play... Cyrano de Bergerac via Steve Martin... more Harrison Ford appearances... 1980s Kerri Green... the joys of being spoiler free before the internet... what happened to Aaron Eckhart... the Break Up Rom Com section of Pinky's list... Adam Sandler's almost turn as The Bear Jew... and being sold on Christian Bale's Batman...

Episode LXXXII: 2012 in Review

Hope you had yourself a jingle belly, holly jolly, white winter wonderlandy merry little Christmas!  Mikey and d$ are back again to finish up 2012 with our special year in review... its The Deucecast Episode LXXXII: 2012 In Review...

In this episode, we dish out the best in music for the year, first with Mikey's terrible tastes and crappy bands, and then with d$'s great choices, both critically acclaimed and loved by audiences worldwide (much like The Deucecast itself). 

The guys kick off the show with topics like Doc McStuffins... kid Christmases... James Bond 50 Blu Ray set... Star Wars... Mikey's sickness... d$'s head-to-head battle with the flu... JJ Abrams and Star Wars... The Walking Dead losing producers... Disney's Limited Time Magic... and Real Men of Genius.'

A discussion of 2012 includes Whitney Houston's death... Gotye... The Olympics... Brit Rock... The Walking Dead... and Disney purchasing Lucasfilm

A longer movie discussion gets on the favorite movies of the year, including The Master... The Avengers... Skyfall... Brave... The Hunger Games... and Emily Blunt's multiple appearances on the list!  Plus, d$ gives his Top Ten Favorite Movies He Hasn't Seen Yet, and a list of all 82 movies he's seen this year.

Demi Lovato gets her due, and the return of a much missed, much loved "Watch"! 

Ep LXXVIII: Podcast on 34th Street

It's the downhill slope to Christmas!  We kick off the Christmas season with a quick one-shot salute to 90s music, including Mikey playing a bunch of crap no one has heard of and no one cares about, and d$ playing some awesome music that you will love to hear over and over!

We dish on your odds of winning that Powerball Lottery.. drink some Jic Jac Blue Raspberry Soda... discuss our favorite sodas of the past, like Coke II and Apple Slice and Tropical Pepsi... Bo Jackson's venture into the pie business... and what we would do with 70 million dollars...

The 90s music features such tripe as AIR... Spacehog... and Supergrass... and such awesomeness as Inner Circle... Sheryl Crow... Blind Melon... and d$'s favorite Mariah Carey song of 1994...

More topics of conversation include Disney's new Jack Sparrow attraction... there are Star Wars and rumors and Star Wars yet to come... Waterworld's remake (?!)... the casting on Days of Future Past... Joseph Gordon Levitt's new role, maybe... Girl Meets World... some movie called "Take This Waltz"... Refliktions on movies like "Killer Elite"... "The Grey"... "Rio"... and d$'s review of "Immortals".

You know those movies that you see when you are flipping channels, and no matter where they are in the movie you'll stop and watch it from that point until the end?  That's our Big Three!  Movies we watch when we see them on tv... movies with Seagal... Titanic... Die Hard 2 - Die Harder... and of course, Nic Cage is well represented.

And lest we forget... Demi Lovato's inspiring Tweet of the Week...

Next week... Mikey starts his Christmas Music Exodus... and our Big Three Anti-Christmas Films! That's on The Deucecast Episode LXXIX:  A Podcast Carol

Episode L: Podcast Revolutions

Tonight, in this historic event, a happening that happens only once in the life of a podcast, an event that is so eventful, the happening events are happening in the eventful happenstance.

Mikey and d$ welcome in TWO, count 'em TWO, co-hosts this week, as Drew and Dr. Earlgood join the show as the 50th episode of The Deucecast commences.

Right outta the gate, Mikey shares his battle with Montezuma and the revenge that came with it... the dangers of WebMD... watching The Masters live... some Alison Krauss thoughts... our Easter weekend in review...

Mikey demands you go and buy some Alabama Shakes music right now (click the link below to head over to Amazon, give them ten bucks, give us a nickel and help pay for our studio renovations!), then gives us some Jane's Addiction for his continuing festival series... d$ unburies a wretched Chucky Norris film, then reburies it where it will hopefully stay... and Dr. Earl gives his weird obsession with the new Three Stooges movie (sure to be a treasure that will also need to be buried in the future)

The Big Three looks ahead to summertime, where all four guys give their most anticipated upcoming films of the summer season.  Batman, The Avengers and Ridley Scott get lots of love, as do The Expendables, and even Abe Lincoln, the Vampire Hunter.  Oh, and who wants to see "What To Expect When You Are Expecting"?  Find out.

Remember Steven Seagal Watch?  It makes a glorious return!  Some news about the former great but now drunken Scott Hall, aka Razor Ramon, aka 1/2 of The Outsiders in the WWE/WCW...

And finally, a Dead With Dr. Earl segment forms out of nowhere as the guys take on the recent Whitney Houston cause of death news, which gives us the immortal line...

"A cocaine-induced butt flip"

Join us next week when we gets us a new co-host in the rotation, a dude named Trey who is coming on to plug his wares and have a good time... our Big Three will be Top Three Great Casts in Bad Movies... Mikey will have more Schaeffer music, and d$ will be bringing out a great Minnie Driver Buried Treasure!   That's on The Deucecast Episode LI: Podcast Magnolias 

Mike's Music Minute:
Go Check out Schaeffer Crawfish Boil May 4-5, 2012 in Birmingham, AL
Up From The Catacombs: The Best Of Jane's Addiction

Mike's Album That You Need To Buy This Week That Came Out This Week:
Alabama Shakes - "Boys & Girls"

Dave's Buried Treasure: This One Needs To Stay Buried
The Delta Force

The Big 3: The One Where We Discuss Our Most Anticipated Summer 2012 Movies
Dave's Choice - The Avengers
Mike's Choice - Prometheus
Earl & Drew's Choice - The Dark Knight Rises

Roundtable Randomness:
The Monday Night War: WWE Raw vs. WCW Nitro
The Simpsons: The Complete First Season

Episode XLII: Podcastablanca

For the first time in The Deucecast Studios... we got ourselves a chick on the air.  Like, a real life girl.  Like, she's a she.  A chick co-hosting?  Dig it!

Mikey's younger sista' Stephanie is making the rounds in our town, and she graced us with her presence for the 42nd episode of The Deucecast: Podcastablanca.  Mikey and d$ lead the show, with Steph in tow, and Producer Drew on the sound effects and production board.

We kick it right off with our weekly beverage tasting, sampling a bit of the Jarritos soda straight from The Pesos Store (its a sponsor of our sister show in Cancun, "The DosCast").  And its definitely an interesting taste, to say the least.  Don't forget to join Club Jarritos!

The show dives into wonderful topics like Mikey's sick kid... d$'s two-month old travails... Drew's random week... and Steph gives us the lowdown of life in her new home of Missouri (plus the scary travels in the backwoods of Arkansas).  We also touch on such fun things like "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" in 3D... JarJar Binks... the possibility of both a "Ghostbusters 3" and a "Beetlejuice 2" (bad on both counts)... more Michael Bay nonsense... movie reviews like Mikey's thoughts on "Before the Devil Knows Your Dead" and d$'s thoughts on the Anna Faris classic "What's Your Number?"...

The Finale of The Saddest Songs of All Time is here!  A quick (?) recap of numbers 25 through 6, then the Top Five most heartbreaking, most soul crushing, most painful songs ever, with classic country, some Broadway and a Prince-written theme.


Does this pain ever stop?!?!?

Mikey busts out a Peanutty buried treasure... then he goes toe-to-toe with his sister Steph in a new game called "The Coffee Date Game", as in, who would you rather have coffee with?  Hugh Jackman?  Natalie Portman?  Taye Diggs?  Or... Rosie O'Donnell?!

How can you watch Titanic twice in a row on HBO?  Find out here!

And in our Big Three, its a spirited talk of Our Favorite Chick Flicks of All Time, including d$'s reveal of his favorite movie of all time, plus many movies never before discussed here, like "that thing you do!" and "Julie &  Julia" and "10 Things I Hate About You" and even more!  Jerry Maguire!  ...Say Anything!  and Beautiful Girls!

This week's Audible selection of the week:  The Stand by Stephen King, on 47 hours of glorious audio. Get it FREE when you sign up for a free trial at AudibleTrial.com/deuce ... its like making a donation to our show!  

And next week, d$'s Music Minute pays tribute to Whitney Houston... Mikey busts out a crazy, random Buried Treasure... we give you our Oscar picks (with a bet on the line)... and Drew comes back as not a producer but a co-host with the first edition of Drew's Smorg!  That's all on The Deucecast Episode XLIII: Podcast with the Wind!

Dave's Saddest Songs Ever:

The Song Remembers When - Trisha Yearwood by Trisha Yearwood

Mike's Buried Treasure:

Snoopy, Come Home

The Big 3: The One Where We Discuss Our Favorite Chick Flicks Ever:

Dave's Choice - Titanic

Drew's Choice - 10 Things I Hate About You (10th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]

Mike's Choice - Beautiful Girls

Steph's Choice - You've Got Mail [Blu-ray]

Roundtable Randomness:

ReFlicktions:

What's Your Number? (Ex-tended Edition) [Blu-ray/DVD Combo+Digital Copy]

IMAX: Dolphins

Demi Lovato Watch:

Be Like A Pop Star with Demi Lovato

Episode 40: The Podshank Redemption

Its a big deal around here, as The Deucecast reaches the Big 4-0... no, not 40 years, or even 40 months... but 40 weeks!  Our 40th episode brings Hurricane Rhett up in the hizzy, fo' rizzy... okay, that's possibly the whitest thing I've ever typed...

Did Hurricane Rhett really dig this, or was he just showboating?
Listen and decide for yourself.

Right off the bat, we try some really good drinks from Rob... that being, Rob's Really Good drinks.  Hurricane Rhett even gets a delighted surprise as he enjoys his cucumberness.

Then the show gets rolling as Mikey, d$ and Rhett discuss movies like "Rango" and "The Green Hornet"... the attainability of Kate Jackson vs. the other Angels, and which of the new Angels is most attainable (Drew Barrymore for d$, Lucy Liu for Mikey)... puppy love... puppy hospital hate... and a Music Minute that sounds like Harold Faltermayer ("Alex F") and Herbie Hancock threw up in the same petry dish and they spilled it on a 1984 synthesizer.

Other things discussed in earnest vary by such topics as "World's Dumbest..." on TruTV... the death of Ian Abercrombie (no Fitch, though)... Ryan Seacrest and Mark Cuban... "Super High Me" and "Freakonomics"... SAG Award highlights... debating whether to go see "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" in 3D... and our very first Kenny G Watch!

Carl Weathers gets some real love in a great Buried Treasure... and d$'s countdown of The Top 25 Saddest Songs Ever continues with Part III, including heartbreak from Whitney Houston... heartache from Blessid Union of Souls... misery from Whitney... irony from Ho-Jo... and this gem, featured in "Notting Hill", d$'s 15th favorite film of all time:



Finally, another edition of Reel or Unreel, plus The Big Three Biggest Drop-Offs from One Sequel to the Next, including movies from such franchises as Star Trek... Grease... Superman... Rocky... Indiana Jones... and even Teen Wolf!

Join us next week as we attempt to bring in The Good Doctor Earl, and ask him what exactly is Mesothelioma?... more crap from Mikey... Bonnie Raitt and Brian McKnight in Part IV of the Saddest Songs Ever... and The Big Three Best Presidents in TV and Movie History.  That's all on The Deucecast Episode XLI:  The Podfather!


Mike's Music Minute:
tUnE - yArDs - W H O K I L L

Dave's Buried Treasure:
Action Jackson

Dave's Top 20 Saddest Songs Ever:
The Bodyguard - Original Soundtrack Album, featuring "I Will Always Love You", the 14th saddest song of all time

The Big 3: The One Where We Discuss the Worst Sequels of All Time:
Dave's Choice - Superman III (Deluxe Edition)
Mike's Choice - Batman & Robin [Blu-ray]
Rhett's Choice - Ghostbusters 2 (Widescreen Edition)
Tommy's Choice - Rocky V (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Roundtable Randomness:
Kenny G Watch - Playlist: The Very Best Of Kenny G

Doc Block:
There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane
Super High Me