Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Innerspace

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, guest-host David Striepe of the Talkin' Tofu podcast returns to chat with Rob about the 1987 miniaturization film “Innerspace,” directed by Joe Dante and starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short and Meg Ryan. (originally published 1/3/2025)

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:08.3	Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind.
0:11.7	This is Rob Lamb, and today we have an episode that originally published 1-3-2020-5.
0:19.1	This episode features a guest host, my friend David Streepie of Talking Tofu, the podcast, returned to the show and discussed with me the 1987 miniaturization film Interspace, directed by Joe Dante and starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, and Meg Ryan, a movie that I loved as a kid and has just a fabulously weird love triangle at the heart of it.
0:43.8	So let's jump right in.
0:47.8	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:58.7	Thank you. production of iHeart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema.
1:00.9	This is Rob Lamb.
1:02.1	And today I have a returning special guest co-host.
1:06.9	We're joined once more by David Streepie of the Talking Tofu podcast. Dave, welcome back to the show. Thank you. Thanks for having me back. And hello to all the stuffies. I think we agreed that they're called. So hello again to all of you. Glad to be back. That's right. We're going to be talking about the Gate 3, right? Yes. I wish. Oh, my God. Would you imagine? Old man Terry.
1:32.5	No, instead, we're going to be, we were talking about like a handful of potential movies. And we ended up going with the one. I think this one was probably the one that you brought up that was the most holiday friendly and I think
1:45.1	might be a stealth holiday film because I did see a Santa Claus at one point. That's all it
1:50.5	takes to qualify really. And this did happen in California. So really your only cues that it is
1:55.5	the holidays and a West Coast movie are from the decorations and not from climate or anything else that's going on.
2:01.6	Yeah, we did have, we had a bunch of really strong contenders for possibilities, but I think this one,
2:08.6	in addition to its appropriateness, it's the, it's a big one, but it kind of made a small splash and a big splash at the same time.
2:19.5	It's really, really unique.
2:21.2	Yeah, I don't feel like Interspace, the movie you're talking about, in 1987's Interspace.
2:26.0	This is Joe Dante film.
2:27.9	Got a great cast, I mean, starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan.
2:33.5	I mean, it came out. Big Summer Special Effects movie.
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