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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Our Favorite Movies On Tubi

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.511.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The streaming service Tubi has become a repository for a wild assortment of movies, TV shows, and original properties. They’re all free to watch, provided you’re willing to sit through some ads. So we asked some Tubi-philes to recommend some great movies that you can find on the service: Hundreds of Beavers, Color Out of Space, Petey Wheatstraw, and Mambo Italiano.


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Tubi has become a repository for a wild assortment of TV shows, movies, and original properties.

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They're all free to watch, provided you're willing to sit through some ads.

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So we asked some TubeFiles to help us sift through the thousands of offerings.

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I'm Stephen Thompson, and today on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we are recommending

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some great movies that you can find on Tooby. Support for NPR and the following message come from

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Joining me today is freelance music and culture journalist Rihanna Cruz. Hey, Rihanna.

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Hey, Stephen. Also with us is Jordan Morris. He's a writer and the co-host of the podcast's

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Jordan Jesse Go and free with ads. Hey, that's an appropriate name. Hey, Jordan. Hey, great to be here.

1:26.0

It is great to have you. So if you haven't

1:28.7

used Tobe, it's an ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox. It's got a deeply eclectic

1:35.5

catalog that includes thousands of movies, a few of which we are discussing today. Jordan and

1:41.3

Rihanna, we wanted to have you come on and share a few of your favorite

1:44.7

Tobe finds. We're specifically focusing on movies. Jordan, I'm going to start with you. Give me your

1:50.0

first pick. Okay, so my first pick is hundreds of beavers, and like any good movie on Tooby,

1:57.5

when you're describing it to people, it should sound like you're making it up as you go.

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