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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-----Visit Emily's ETSY store FlemGemsSee Matt do stand up at the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena on January 24th at 7PM. Buy tickets NOW!Listen to Jordan's appearance on NPR's Pop Culture Happy HourJordan will be at the Pasadena ComicCon on January 25th! Get your tickets now!Finally, click this link to get a signed copy of PREDATOR Bloodshed #1-5! https://bit.ly/coolfight 

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.To listen to ALL of our bonus episodes of Free With Ads, become a member of MaxFun by going to maximumfun.org/join

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!!!!-----Follow Arnie Niekamp on InstagramListen to Arnie's Christmas music podcast No Skip ChristmasAnd of course listen to Hello From The Magic TavernGet a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!Also click this link to get a signed copy of PREDATOR Bloodshed #1-5! https://bit.ly/coolfight

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!-----Visit Emily's ETSY store FlemGems!Check out the MaxFun Gift Guide! https://gift-guide.maximumfun.org/Get a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!Also click this link to get a signed copy of PREDATOR Bloodshed #1-5! https://bit.ly/coolfight

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)-----Visit Emily's ETSY store FlemGems!Check out the MaxFun Gift Guide! https://gift-guide.maximumfun.org/Matt will be at The Ice House comedy club in Pasadena on December 13th!Get a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!Also click this link to get a signed copy of something else Jordan made! https://bit.ly/coolfight

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.-----Visit Emily's ETSY store FlemGems!Check out the MaxFun Gift Guide! https://gift-guide.maximumfun.org/Matt will be at The Ice House comedy club in Pasadena on December 13th!If you are in California, Jordan will be here on these dates!Wed Dec 3rd - Merced Public Library 5pm - 7pmSaturday Dec 6th - Thousand Oaks Public Library 2pm - 3pmGet a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!Also click this link to get a signed copy of something else Jordan made! https://bit.ly/coolfight

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.-----Buy Alonso's new and updated book Have Yourself a Movie Little ChristmasListen to the podcast Linoleum KnifeAlso listen to Maximum Film wherever you get your podcasts!Finally, follow Alonso on instagram!Visit Emily's ETSY store FlemGems!Matt will be at The Ice House comedy club in Pasadena on December 13th!If you are in California, Jordan will be here on these dates!Wed Dec 3rd - Merced Public Library 5pm - 7pmSaturday Dec 6th - Thousand Oaks Public Library 2pm - 3pmGet a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!Also click this link to get a signed copy of something else Jordan made! https://bit.ly/coolfight

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-----Visit Emily's ETSY store FlemGems!If you are in California, Jordan will be here on these dates!Wed Dec 3rd - Merced Public Library 5pm - 7pmSaturday Dec 6th - Thousand Oaks Public Library 2pm - 3pmGet a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!

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.-----Visit Emily's ETSY store FlemGems!If you are in California, Jordan will be here on these dates!Wed Dec 3rd - Merced Public Library 5pm - 7pmSaturday Dec 6th - Thousand Oaks Public Library 2pm - 3pmGet a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!

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.-----Visit Emily's ETSY store FlemGems!Get a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!

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) -----Check out Chelsea's amazing rom-com podcast Podstruck: A Rom-Com RewindVisit Emily's ETSY store FlemGems!On Dec 3rd, Jordan Morris wrote something in Venom 252. Get your copy now!Get a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!On Nov 8th, Jordan will be at the Burbank Book Festival, at the Buena Vista Branch Library from 10am-11am.And later that same day, Nov 8th, Jordan will be at Revenge Of Comics and Pinball for their Comic Creator Parking Lot Party.

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.-----Check out Zac's YouTube Channel CZsWorld! Here's a video you can watch!Zac also has a new channel called Pumpkin Metal that you should also follow if you like pop punk music.On Nov 1st,  the the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena to see some stand up comedy from Matt Lieb and his wife.On Dec 3rd, Jordan Morris wrote something in Venom 252. Get your copy now!Get a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!On Nov 8th, Jordan will be at the Burbank Book Festival, at the Buena Vista Branch Library from 10am-11am.And later that same day, Nov 8th, Jordan will be at Revenge Of Comics and Pinball for their Comic Creator Parking Lot Party. 

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.-----Watch Emily, Matt, and Jordan on Good Mythical Weekend! Watch "Emily Have You Seen This?" on the Mythical SocietyOn Oct 22 you can get a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4! Jordan will be signing the book Sat Oct 25th from 4-6pm at Things From Another World at Universal Citywalk.On Nov 8th, Jordan will be at the Burbank Book Festival, at the Buena Vista Branch Library from 10am-11am.And later that same day, Nov 8th, Jordan will be at Revenge Of Comics and Pinball for their Comic Creator Parking Lot Party.

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-----Watch Emily, Matt, and Jordan on Good Mythical Weekend! Watch "Emily Have You Seen This?" on the Mythical SocietyOn Oct 22 you can get a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4! Jordan will be signing the book Sat Oct 25th from 4-6pm at Things From Another World at Universal Citywalk.On Nov 8th, Jordan will be at the Burbank Book Festival, at the Buena Vista Branch Library from 10am-11am.And later that same day, Nov 8th, Jordan will be at Revenge Of Comics and Pinball for their Comic Creator Parking Lot Party.

'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.-----Watch Emily, Matt, and Jordan on Good Mythical Weekend! On Oct 22 you can get a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4! Jordan will be signing the book Sat Oct 25th from 4-6pm at Things From Another World at Universal Citywalk.

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-----Follow Matt McCarthy on instagram and TikTok.Also, check out Matt McCarthy's Video Garage on Patreon!And listen to Matt McCarthy's wonderful podcast VHS Tapes Are Magic!Come see Matt do stand up at the Ice House in Pasadena on Weds October 1st!Watch Emily, Matt, and Jordan on Good Mythical Weekend! On Oct 22 you can get a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4! Jordan will be signing the book Sat Oct 25th from 4-6pm at Things From Another World at Universal Citywalk. 

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. -----Come see Matt do stand up at the Ice House in Pasadena on Weds October 1st!Watch Good Mythical Weekend every Saturday!Go to Emily's ETSY Store!See Jordan Morris at LA ComicCon Sept 26-28, tabling at JO7!

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-----Come see Matt do stand up at the Ice House in Pasadena on Weds October 1st!Watch Good Mythical Weekend every Saturday!See Jordan Morris at LA ComicCon Sept 26-28, tabling at JO7!

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.-----Follow Leonard on Instagram!Also see him do comedy in a town near you:Oct 28 Las Vegas WiseguysNov 19 UCB New YorkNov 6-8 Austin, TX Out of Bounds Comedy FestivalSee Leonard's comedy troupe Lemon Pepper WetAlso, watch Good Mythical Weekend!Jordan has some comic books coming out!Oct 1st, Predator Black White And Blood no 4.Dec 3rd Venom Issue 252

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.-----Watch Emily Have You Seen This? on Mythical SocietyOr watch Emily on Mythical KitchenAlso buy some stuff from Emily's ETSY page FlemGemsSee Matt Lieb and friends at the Bell House in Brooklyn October 13th.