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This week we decided to watch another classic Don Bluth cartoon about attractive mice. We all watched The Secret of NIMH, a fantasy children's movie about a single mom trying to get medicine for her sick son. Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Bodyguard.

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2026

This week we are back with the 80's classic kids movie Harry and the Hendersons, a bigfoot movie that's surprisingly moving and might actually be art or something. Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Secret Of NIMH.

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2026

This week we watched the movie that started it all. And by "it" I mean "movies with the Predator in it." That's right, we're talking Predator (1987), starring a villain so iconic that Arnold Schwarzenegger is literally only in one of these movies and it's still a successful franchise. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Harry and the Hendersons

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2026

This week we watched the scariest space movie since that one about alien, the 1997 sci-fi horror film Event Horizon about a spaceship that goes to the worst place ever. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Predator.

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2026

This week we watched the 2019 romantic comedy Yesterday, about a guy who gets hit by a bus during Y2K and is the only person on Earth who remembers that the Beatles existed and steals all their songs. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Event Horizon.

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2026

It's the last week of the MaxFun Drive and we could think of no better way of celebrating free movies than to invite Janet Varney (E Pluribus Motto) to watch The NeverEnding Story, a childhood classic about a little boy who escapes into fantasy in order to forget how dead his mom is. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Yesterday (2019)

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2026

We have a brand new show in the Bonus Content feed for all of your Free With Ads/Maximum Fun subscribers! Introducing... We Like Shows! Where one of the hosts forces the other two to watch a pilot of TV show that they absolutely love. This time we are allowing for shows that are on paid streaming services so that we can FINALLY watch something that is on TV right now! This month, Emily made Jordan and producer Matt watch HBO's A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms - a Game of Thrones sitcom. You can listen to this episode and all of the MaxFun bonus content feed by joining at https://maximumfun.org/joinfreewithads

Transcribed - Published: 27 April 2026

It's the MaxFun Drive and we are celebrating with one of the most badass movies ever made, the Patrick Swayze dude flick Road House (1989). Tune in next week when our movie will be... The NeverEnding Story.

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2026

It's MaxFunDrive. And here, for the first time, we give you an exclusive look (well, listen) at the craft of podcasting: presenting Casters on Casters. In this episode, Mallory O'Meara (Reading Glasses & Reading Smut), and Jordan Morris (Free with Ads & Jordan, Jesse, Go!) improvise a musical number, sing the praises of one another, and Yes, AND...with one another. It's a hilarious conversation with a few life lessons sprinkled in. If this glamorous, in-depth journey into what makes your favorite hosts tick inspires you, support them by joining as a member at maximumfun.org/join. Edited by Jesus Ambrosio and Produced by Laura Swisher for Maximum Fun.

Transcribed - Published: 20 April 2026

This week watched the movie that made The Ramones a household name, or at least as close to a household name as a punk rock band could get before getting accused of selling out. We're talking Rock 'n' Roll High School, the 1979 musical comedy about a bunch of teens who really like The Ramones. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Road House (1989)

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2026

Last week we hated Ouija so much that we decided to watch its prequel Ouiji: Origin Of Evil, which is about a Ouija board but also about grief I think. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Rock 'n' Roll High School

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2026

They made a whole ass movie out of the IP for the Ouija board and we watched it. It's called Ouija and it's about people playing with a Ouija board. It's a whole movie about Ouija board. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Ouija: Origin Of Evil

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2026

We are joined by returning guest Jordan D White (Marvel, Nature Trail To Hell) to talk about Underworld, the early aughts vampire werewolf goth slop that turned Kate Beckinsale into a Hot Topic staple. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Ouija.

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2026

This week we watched the Oops All Berries of Godzilla movies All Monsters Attack, the 1969 Godzilla kids movies that is half clips show and half NeverEnding Story. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Underworld (2003)

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2026

Remember when computer hackers weren't all incels? Travel with us to a bygone era as we talk about the 1995 movie Hackers, starring Johnny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Godzilla: All Monsters Attack.

Transcribed - Published: 11 March 2026

We heard there was a new The 'Burbs on Peacock so we made the thrifty choice and watched the old The 'Burbs from 1989, starring Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Hackers.

Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2026

This week we celebrated the American Dream by watching a movie about how achievable and real it is! The 1985 made-for-TV-movie Death of a Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. Tune in next week when our movie will be... The 'Burbs.

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2026

This week we had comedian Matt Apodoca on the podcast to talk about the 2020 video game movie Sonic The Hedgehog, about a hedgehog who is living fast and may indeed die young. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Death Of A Salesman (1985)

Transcribed - Published: 18 February 2026

This week the free streaming services blessed us with a stone cold classic, the 1990 romantic thriller horror comedy Ghost starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Sonic The Hedgehog.

Transcribed - Published: 10 February 2026

Transcribed - Published: 3 February 2026

New year, new Nicolas Cage movie released for free! We all watched 2019's Color Out Of Space, a sci-fi body horror film about grief or something. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Rock-a-Doodle.

Transcribed - Published: 27 January 2026

We did it! We recorded 100 episodes of this stupid podcast and to celebrate this feat we finally decided to watch one of the most requested movies, a goth musical called Repo! The Genetic Opera. Also, we have a bonus Best-Of compilation at the very end of the episode. Thank you to all the redditors for helping identify your favorite moments from 100 episodes of podding. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Color Out Of Space.

Transcribed - Published: 20 January 2026

This week we honor the life and legacy of Rob Reiner by watching one of his funniest and scariest movies, Misery - the Stephen King adaptation about how parasocial relationships with content creators can be very toxic. Tune in next week for our 100th episode when our movie will be... Repo! The Genetic Opera

Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2026

It's 2026 and we at Free With Ads want to let all the freebies know that we took a tiny vacation! So we have unlocked our favorite bonus episode of the year from the MaxFun boco feed. Please enjoy our review of the musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Once More With Feeling (S6 Ep7)." It's one of the rare instances of a fan service that is actually quite enjoyable for regular people. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Misery.

Transcribed - Published: 6 January 2026

This week we invited Arnie Niekamp to help us finish off the holiday season by watching the very 90's Christmas movie GO starring Katie Holmes and Timothy Olyphant and a bunch of other 90's people you will definitely recognize. Tune in next week when our episode will be an UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE of Free With Ads where we talk about TV, and the episode will be... the musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Once More With Feeling." HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Transcribed - Published: 30 December 2025

To celebrate the birth of Mr. Jesus we decided to watch an ahistorical recreation of it starring Oscar Isaac, 2006's The Nativity Story - directed by the same person who did the first Twilight movie. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Go!

Transcribed - Published: 23 December 2025

This week we watched a movie that somehow slipped through the cracks of popular culture. A Christmas TV movie called Unlikely Angel, starring Dolly Parton as a recently deceased country singer who needs to help a motherless family in order to avoid eternal damnation in hell. No, really. That's the plot. Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Nativity Story (2006)

Transcribed - Published: 16 December 2025

Ever seen Jaws? What if Jaws was Santa? What if Shark stole Christmas? All of these questions will be answered after we tell you about the TV movie Santa Jaws! Tune in next week when our movie will be... Unlikely Angel.

Transcribed - Published: 9 December 2025

This week we invited Alonso Duralde back to the pod to talk about the Christmas TV movie classic, The Christmas Toy, which is basically Toy Story but with death! Tune in next week when our movie will be... Santa Jaws.

Transcribed - Published: 2 December 2025

This week we are celebrating one of the strangest and most Canadian films ever made, a children's (?) film called The Peanut Butter Solution about a kid who loses all of his hair and takes bad advice from a wino's ghost. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Jim Henson's The Christmas Toy

Transcribed - Published: 25 November 2025

This week we watched the classic mid-aughts love story The Notebook, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Peanut Butter Solution.

Transcribed - Published: 18 November 2025

This week, perfectly timed with the release of the Glen Powell remake, we decided to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man (1987), a movie about how there are no original ideas left in Hollywood or something. Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Notebook.

Transcribed - Published: 11 November 2025

This week we are joined by writer, actress, and podcaster Chelsea Davison (Podstruck: A Rom-Com Rewind) to talk about The First Wives Club, a 90's boomer comedy about divorced women getting revenge on their ex-husbands. Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Running Man (1987)

Transcribed - Published: 4 November 2025

On the last week of Hallowpeen we invited horror film connoisseur Zac Morris (CZsWorld) to watch one of the scariest Ernest films of all, Ernest Scared Stupid! Tune in next week when our movie will be... The First Wives Club.

Transcribed - Published: 28 October 2025

The spooky season gets a whole lot spookier with this week's episode where we watched the legitimately terrifying horror film The Ring, about a little girl who lives in a well. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Ernest Scared Stupid.

Transcribed - Published: 21 October 2025

We continue Hallowpeen with the closest thing we can get to a "recent" movie, the 2024 horror film Longlegs, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Osgood Perkins. Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Ring

Transcribed - Published: 14 October 2025

'Tis the season to be creepy crawly (or something), the silly/spooky season we lovingly call Hallow-peen! And we couldn't think of a more perfect way to kick off the season than to watch one of the silliest and spookiest movies from our childhoods, Killer Klowns from Outer Space. It's about... well it's all right there in the title. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Longlegs.

Transcribed - Published: 7 October 2025

Comedian Matt McCarthy joins us to talk about Sunset Boulevard (1950), the classic film noir about how being a screenwriter in Hollywood is easier when you have a famous girlfriend. We watched this week's movie for free on the app Kanopy which is free for EVERYONE with a library card! Tune in next week when our movie will be... Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Transcribed - Published: 30 September 2025

This week we watched the perfect punk rock film that is not actually about music, the 1984 comedy Repo Man about a suburban white punk who just wanted a Pepsi, mom. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Sunset Blvd.

Transcribed - Published: 23 September 2025

This week we watched for the very first time the 1974 cult classic Phantom of the Paradise, a Faust meets The Picture of Dorian Gray meets meets cocaine rock opera with original music by the guy who wrote Rainbow Connection. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Repo Man

Transcribed - Published: 16 September 2025

This week we welcome comedian and fellow Mythical Crew member Leonard Smith Jr. to the pod to talk about one of the strangest finds in the Free With Ads-iverse, Hell Comes To Frogtown starring Roddy Piper and the world's last virile man. It is not porn, we swear. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Phantom Of The Paradise.

Transcribed - Published: 9 September 2025

We are without our anchor Jordan Morris this week, so Emily and Matt took their ADHD medication and watched Tombstone, the hunk-filled 90's western starring Kirk Russell and Val Kilmer. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Hell Comes To Frogtown.

Transcribed - Published: 2 September 2025

For the final week of Animals Attack August, we all watched a movie so stupid that it spawned a franchise: Sharknado, a film about... well you can probably guess. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Tombstone.

Transcribed - Published: 26 August 2025

Our third selection for Animals Attack August is the Liam Neeson wolf fighting movie "The Grey" which is less about humans fighting wolves and more about humans fighting God. You'll see. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Sharknado.

Transcribed - Published: 19 August 2025

It's Animals Attack August and this week we had guest Holly Chou (from X-Men 97) in the studio to talk about Alligator 2: The Mutation, a movie about a giant alligator who eats people again. Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Grey.

Transcribed - Published: 12 August 2025

This week we celebrate the beginning of the very first Animals Attack August where all month we will be talking about movies where animals attack people. First up, the 1997 Ice Cube movie Anaconda, where an Anaconda attacks people! Tune in next week when the movie will be... Alligator 2.

Transcribed - Published: 5 August 2025

This week we are back in the 90's with a movie about deadbeat dads and small business women, The Baby-Sitters Club! Tune in next week when our movie will be... Anaconda!

Transcribed - Published: 29 July 2025

This week we watched some more classic Hitchcock for free (with ads). This time around we chose Vertigo which is arguably the greatest movie of all time according to very smart film critics. Did we feel the same? Listen to find out! Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Baby-Sitters Club (1995).

Transcribed - Published: 22 July 2025

This week we watched the Tom Cruise race car movie Days of Thunder, where he plays a man who likes to race cars real fast! Tune in next week when our movie will be... Vertigo.

Transcribed - Published: 15 July 2025

This week we welcome Twitch streamer Trisha Hershberger to the podcast to talk about the video game movie Street Fighter, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia. Tune in next week when our movie will be... Days Of Thunder (1990)

Transcribed - Published: 8 July 2025