We sat down with LA Weekly/Village Voice film reviewer Chad Byrnes and dove into the borderline traumatic childhood viewing experience that was seeing Firstborn--a cautionary tale about letting pinball, cocaine, Coleman grills (and Big Charcoal, by proxy), and Peter Weller into your single-parent home--in the movie theater with his divorcée mother. We also celebrate the creative forces that were Peter Weller, Michael Apted, Teri Garr, and Corey Haim, while wondering what happened to Christopher Collet, all of whom were great in this 1984 heightened family trauma drama. Come for the discussion of seeing a movie with your mom that traumatized you both, stay for tons of talk praising Corey Haim, speculation that RoboCop derailed Peter Weller's acting career, and the offer of unequivocal proof that Sam was lying about his baseball-playing past.

Chad can be found online at: Instagram
Chad's work can be found at: The Village Voice and LA Weekly. His most recent review as of the release of this episode was of Alex Garland's Civil War and can be read here.

All music in the show was composed by Divorcio Suave.

Josh Duggan and Adam Schwitters can also be heard on their seminal Law & Order: SVU podcast, Munch My Benson.

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