High Five: The Podcast

When we got together to talk about Betty White roles and the performances that made us love her, we realized that diving deep into the world of "The Golden Girls" was a necessity. On this special episode, J, Cortney, and Mia welcome friends (and Golden Girls experts) Corbin Eaton and Amanda Strawn to discuss what made us all want to move to Florida in the 90s and let us know that adventures can be had at any age. This episode is filled with memories, stories and all the Olaf, Minnesota references you can handle. "The Golden Girls" was a show that connected with all of us, and we hope you enjoy spending time in memories of Miami with us. As High Five: the Podcast looks towards retirement, we know that the high fives and the laughs over the years have kept us young and we can't wait until we all join together in that movie community down on the beach. Thank you all for being friends of High Five!

The 2022 Academy Award nominees for 2022 have been announced and while we wait for the end of March to see who wins, we wanted to dedicate a handful of episodes to people we love who are getting honored this year at the Oscars! The first episode in our "2022 High Five Oscar Series" will be centered on a director after our own hearts: Edgar Wright! Aside from last year's Last Night in Soho, Wright has directed some of our favorite films and we wanted to dive as deep into his filmography as legally possible. What was your favorite host's first Edgar Wright movie? Are there any that didn't pass the sniff test? And most importantly of all, what are our Top 5 Edgar Wright Movies of all Time? We end the episode with a rousing game of "Wright or Wrong" that you simply don't want to miss. Join us as we start our 2022 Oscar journey!

This is the true story of three not-strangers, picked to record a podcast together and have their conversation taped, to find out what happens when people stop ranking politely…and start getting real…The Real High Five: The Podcast. That's the totally real intro for the reality show starring Cortney, Mia, J, and our very special guest, Dana Daniele from the Murder She Joked podcast! This week we are diving into Dana's obsession with reality TV shows to decide once and for all the Best Reality Shows of All Time! Whether you prefer to cook, forge, travel, or judge, there is a reality show made just for you and our hand-picked panel of experts is here to help navigate all the selections. Hopefully, some of your favorites made the list, but if you're hoping for a Kardashian-filled pod, you won't find it here! Join us as we stop podding nice, and start getting real!

When Betty White passed away at the end of 2021, the world lost a comedic giant. We decided to mourn and remember the way we know best, so Cortney, Mia, and J got together to record a very special episode completely dedicated to Betty White. It wouldn't be a High Five episode without ending with the definitely Top 5 Betty White Roles of all time list! Did you remember that Betty White was in a horror movie? Do you know what your favorite hosts' earliest memories of Betty White are? If High Five: The Podcast were a Golden Girl, which one would we be? Find out the answers to these questions and so many more as we honor the life, legacy, and our love of Betty White.

Most people just want to forget that 2021 ever happened and just move on, but we at High Five: The Podcast saw some pretty darn good movies over the past calendar year, and Mia, J, and Cortney want to tell you all about it! Since we are narrowing down our Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2021, we couldn't just keep the discussion to 5 movies, so this is a double-stuffed one. Just like your favorite Oreo's! Join the gang as we go back through a pretty miserable year and talk about the movies and performances that made the cut. We weren't able to see everything that was put out, so our lists are simply our FAVORITES of last year, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't wholeheartedly agree with us! Which of your favorites didn't make the list?

The holidays are a time of giving, which is why we are giving you our most fantasy-inducing, Christmas-tactular, alternate-dimension holiday rompings ever! J, Mia, and Cortney love to love holiday movies, but that doesn't mean that every great Christmas (or other holidays) movie has been made yet. On this Holiday handbag, the gang sits down to decide which directors that have NEVER made a holiday movie need to just get over themselves and make one already! After we lock in the Top 5 Directors Who SHOULD Make a Holiday Movie list, it's time to envision what those movies could be. We're not going to say that we created the greatest holiday mashups in history on this episode, but that's exactly what happened. So don't miss it!

The holidays are a time for family and whether you like or loathe being around your family, movies offer us a glimpse into all different types of parental figures. On this High Five Family Reunion, Cortney, Mia, and J talk what makes the best kind of movie parents, whether superpowers are required, and which families we would want to infiltrate. It all ends with the definitive list of the Top 5 Movie Parent/Parents of all time! It wouldn't be a High Five holiday episode without some stories, impressions, and strange non-sequiturs, so don't miss the start of our High Five Holiday Spectaculars. Get ready to open those gifts we got for you? P.S. They aren't real gifts, just funny impressions, but those are gifts!

We've waited for what feels like 10,000 years for Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Dune to hit the screens. In 2021 it finally happened and the High Five Gang is dusting off their Gom Jabbars and flying all their dragonfly ships to Arrakis to have an in-depth discussion about everything Atreides, Harkonnen, and naked Oscar Isaac! On this interstellar voyage is J, who has read some Dune books and has been a fan of the universe for decades, Cortney who read the book watched the first movie and is ready for more, and Mia the Dune newcomer to see how she felt being dropped into the future. What did we all think of Dune (2021)? You'll have to listen to find out!

Oh Frances, our Frances! Why has it taken so long for us to record an episode about the Top 5 Best Frances McDormand Roles, you may be wondering? Well, every time we almost started a list, she came out with another movie that was freaking amazing! We just gave up. She will always be creating wondrous new art, and with her adaptation of The Tragedy of Macbeth coming out this year, it was nigh time we discussed her acting domination. From Blood Simple to Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, J, Cortney, and Mia are talking through everything we've loved Frances in and talk about what makes her such a stellar actor. Can you think of a time she wasn't amazing? Yeah, even in Transformers 3. That's what we thought! Come celebrate Frances the Queen with us on this week's episode of High Five: The Podcast!

This has been a year of introspection and the High Five Hosts are celebrating by diving into their inner film psyche and putting on our Armchair Therapist hats this week. Do you want to know which movies made the biggest impact on your favorite hosts? What about learning how animatronic dinosaurs altered lives. You'll find out all that and more on our Top 5 Movies That Changed Our Lives list episode! We're getting personal this time around and J may even cry a few times, but don't worry because Cortney and Mia will be there to keep things professional. Also, what would an episode dedicated to life-changing movies be without a game designed to mess those movies up! This is a High Five Film Therapy Session you'll be talking about for years!

It's no secret that we love Brendan Fraser on High Five: The Podcast. What may seem like a secret is why we've never done an episode on the marvel of a man...until now! That's right, Mia, J, and Cortney are getting frilly for Fraser, batshit for Brendan, you get the idea. While it is difficult to not just love all his work, the gang actually decides on a Definitive Top 5 Brendan Fraser Movies of All Time list! Brendan, if you're listening, you'd better stick around until the end because we play a rousing round of Brendaissance where we recast Brendan Fraser in classic Hollywood roles he would have been perfect for! It's a ball from beginning to end, a Brendan Ball, and everyone is invited!

It's time to get quirky and gather the whole family when the gang decides to talk Wes Anderson movies! We're celebrating the upcoming release of The French Dispatch by taking a deep dive into Cortney's favorite director, with Mia and J joining her in a discussion of the Top 5 Wes Anderson movies of all time! At least until we see his next one, that is. The whole gang is here: J, Cortney, Mia, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and (for some reason) Edward Norton and Adrien Brody! It's a packed episode and even though it's a podcast, we're changing aspect ratios the entire time just to prove we're Wes Anderson nerds. Get your sweater, unravel your daddy issues and listen!

In a world where most musicians think they can act and ALL actors think they can be in a band (looking at you Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts!), J, Cortney, and Mia decided it was time to decide once and for all who did it the best! On the heels of the VMAs and before the upcoming Grammys, we're finally getting to the best of the double-threats by ranking the Top 5 Musicians-Turned-Actors of All Time! Once we move beyond Lenny Kravitz (be honest, you thought of him first too), we get into probably the most musical discussion to date and then end with a rousing game of Dream Theater! Find out which current musician we think needs to make the jump into films. This episode may win a Grammy.....or an Oscar...or both!

We're dying to review and talk about The Suicide Squad with you. Trust us, we've been just as excited to see James Gunn's newest demented action story as much as the rest of you, so much so that J, Mia, and Cortney scoured the globe and brought Q back from exile to talk about it with us! Fresh from the beaches of Corto Maltese, Q joins the gang for an in-depth, spoiler-heavy review of The Suicide Squad, ending in the entire crew ranking the Top 5 Best The Suicide Squad Characters! There are jokes, there are impressions, and there are games. We pull out all the stops and might even play an extreme round of F*ck, Marry, Kill that you will want to tell your grandmother about! So, put on your polka dots, suck an entire beach of dicks for freedom, and join us for the starfishiest episode yet!

FANS: Lrrr kicks off the show! We've got filmmaker Chris Canote (Stigma: Raised in Hollywood) and Maloney's Irish Pub owner Wendy Bettin on to talk about the first time they met Corey Feldman, his rock n' roll attitude and Corey's role in Chris' upcoming documentary on child stars. FILMS: Is The Goonies (1985) good enough for our panel of reviewers? Listen as we gather all the Data before running our Mouth. FINDS: Charlie Sheen calls into the show and babbles! Plus Criterion kaiju and Michael vs. Jason.

Have you heard the one about the podcast episode with three hilarious hosts talking about the Top 5 Comedy Specials of All Time? You haven't!? It's like the best joke in the whole world! Spend some time with Mia, J, and Cortney as they talk about the comedians and jokes that spoke to them and which ones deserve the honor of Top 5 Comedy Specials in this one-liner-filled episode of High Five: The Podcast! Grab your microphone, find a brick wall, and get together your Tight Five to go along with our High Five. We're talking newer specials, classics, and little-known ones. They say laughter is the best medicine and after this episode, we may as well all be doctors. Join in and get healed with comedy!

FANS: Entertainer Matt Geiler (America's Got Talent, Frederick Julius) tells us about he how created the Dancing Pumpkin Man character that went viral & landed him on AGT and discusses the latest project from his throwback pop band Frederick Julius. FILMS: Two of our panelists have seen Big Trouble in Little China over 200 times. There is much praise for Jack Burton and a lot of hand-wringing over the closing theme song. FINDS: Fans of Phantasm in the U.S. are getting a sphere, Arrow announces The Prey (1980), The Dead Don't Die (2019) and Jordan Peele talk.

We're kicking off Season 6 with a BANG, and there's no bigger bang in Hollywood than Nicolas Cage! From the heights of Raising Arizona to the lows of 211 to the sheer insanity of buying an Egyptian Tomb for himself, Cortney, Mia, and J talk everything Cage and why they love him so much! You may be surprised which ones we are most nostalgic for and which movies ultimately get excluded from the Top 5 Nic Cage Movies of All Time list! Don't worry, we all do Nicolas Cage impressions, and J introduces Cortney and Mia to possibly the strangest Nic Cage cameo of all time (hint: it involves a fake nose and maniacal laughter)! The only thing crazier than this episode may be Nic Cage himself, but it's pretty close.

FANS: Corin Nemec (Stargate SG:1, Stephen King's The Stand, Parker Lewis Can't Lose) chats with us about Ted & Bud Bundy, fandom & upcoming projects, including Rottentail, a film adaptation of the graphic novel releasing April 12! FILMS: Anthony Hebert (and Corin) join us on a quest beyond the stars as we review The Last Starfighter, a sci-fi flick that helped pioneer CGI. All aboard the StarCar! FINDS: The Brigands of Rattlecreek, a Toxic Avenger reboot, and thoughts on the final season of Supernatural.

Every now and again, an episode so special, a move so mystifying, and change so dramatic happens, that you have to sit and breathe a moment. Events of such magnitude happen so rarely that fans, nay, humanity itself barely recovers. This episode is such an event. We have such BIG news, such EXCITING news, such LIFE-CHANGING news to tell you....but you have to listen to find out what. Also, we take some time to celebrate Q and put him on the spot a little bit. We've said we'll never claim "Favorite Movies Ever", but that's exactly what we're forcing Q to do! Do you want to know why? You'll have to listen to find that out too!

Movies capture the human experience and whether J likes it or not, crying is a part of the human experience. Still on the hunt for their co-host Q, our teary travelers Mia and J hunt for the Top 5 Tearjerker Movies of All Time. It gets pretty sad, but we're pretty happy about it. Grab those tissues and come along. Hollywood seems determined to make us cry and take our money. Whether it's dying kids, or lost animals, or dying family, or dying pets, or dying dreams, they love to put us through the wringer. Is it the Pixar touch that gets you, or is it a touching mother-daughter relationship? Whatever your teary fancy, J and Mia talk about it in this episode!

Come fly with Mia, come and fly with J. On this very special episode, J and Mia are on a quest through the fantasy worlds of film and literature to find our missing Q. It’s a journey that requires friends and frenemies along the way, and not everyone may make it back! Whether we’re stepping through wardrobes, being thrown by tornados, on journeys with jewelry, or simply traveling far, far away, we encounter whatever it is you desire. Grab your tickets and listen in as we discuss the best fantasy worlds of all time!

When it comes to the echelon of movies adapted from video games, it's hard to pick a top 5. Mainly, because there aren't 5 really great video games movies! But building an episode around all the BAD video game movies...now there's an idea! And that's just what we did. J, Mia, and Q get together to wade through the movie mires and finally decide on the Top 5 Worst Video Game Movies of All Time! We all select our players, pick up mushrooms and coins along the way, and try to avoid whatever the hell is going on in the House of the Dead. Things get heated when J takes personal offense at a Michael Fassbender movie, and Q may just love one of the Mortal Kombat movies. And with her epic skills, it's more like The Legend of Chun-Mia. We watched all the bad video game adaptations so you didn't have to!

We made it! 200 episodes and counting. Who would have guessed? We mean, The Simpsons didn’t even make it to 200 episodes (don’t look that up). We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate 200 episodes than by joining in an apocalyptic group hug and ranking our Top 5 Movie Memories! This one gets emotional, Fivers. On this very special episode, find out what experiences really created the movie-obsessed hosts you know and love. Which family members get to have sexy movie experiences with Mia? How many movies can J fit into one Summer? How did Q crash a showing of Beetlejuice? Find out the answers to these and so much more on our 200th episode!

Alan Tudyk. You know him and you love him, whether or not you know him and know you love him. Alan Tudyk is one of those character actors that is more than just the roles he plays. J, Mia, and Q have been collectively obsessed with Tudyk's tenacity for as long as we can remember, so on this episode, we're joining forces to Talk Tudyk and discover once and for all the Top 5 Alan Tudyk Performances of All Time! We purposefully didn't stick to just movies on this one since Tudyk's talent transcends television, movies, cartoons, and online content. You may love him in Firefly just as much as you love him as Duke Weaselton in Zootopia. It's not up to us to judge. Oh, wait! Yes, it is! And we have a blast judging Alan Tudyk!

We've all heard the phrase "It's so weird it had to be true" but few have gone as far as J and Mia did when they recorded an entire episode about movies based on true stories! While Q was off teaching sign language to Komodo dragons in Barcelona, Mia and J tell each other stories...true stories, as they count down the Top 5 Movies Based on True Stories ever made! This is a podcast made for you if you get chills when a movie starts with "Based on a true story...". While Mia and J wait for Q's list to be delivered by cybernetic carrier pigeon, they discuss how many liberties movies can take with stories before no longer being true stories and J regales Mia with his best impressions of Q. Pull up Wikipedia to fact check our true stories and don't miss this episode!

Join the High Five crew for a blast from Academy Awards past as this week we revisit their classic episode all about the most outrageous Oscar snubs...now remember this list was only as of 2016 so there have been plenty of egregious snubs since then (Chadwick Boseman anyone?) so hop into your time machine and journey with us to the past as we try and right some of the wrongs in film awards history. ORIGINAL TEXT: With the 2016 Oscars recently passed and our anxiety abating after a long-deserved DiCaprio victory, our minds turn to famous Oscar snubs. Was Crash truly a better film than Brokeback Mountain? Did Birdman deserve the Oscar over Boyhood? Where the hell is Tarantino's 158 Oscars (that we totally know he deserves.........totally). This is the one where J & Q go through the Top Five Oscar Snubs of all time and deliberate between who truly deserved the golden statue and which films were all veneer overvalue. If you had a vote, would it be a winner or belong in the trash? Also, you won't believe this episode's sponsors, from a professional doorjamb licker to the world's strangest massage parlor, and the guys get down and dirty playing the new game "7 Degrees of Actual Bacon." Don't miss it, because if you do, you'll be as sad as Leo watching other people fondle his Oscars.

Ala-Q-zam! Open saysa-MIa! Abraca-J-abra! Bring out your spell books and get ready to cast some laughs as the High Five gang gets their Hogwarts Letters and all fly off to conjure up the Top 5 Magic Movies of All Time list potion. Don't worry, we're talking real magic here, not a Jesse Eisenberg as far as the eye can see! Join Q on his first magical journey into the land of Hayao Miyazaki. Drop into a dysfunctional British family with Mia. Get into a scruff with some witches with J. We're pulling out every spell we have this week to make it the most magical episode of the season!

Sometimes it just feels good to be Bad, and no one likes being bad more than the High Five crew and dastardly dudes/dudettes from the 1980s! The 80s was a decade of decadence. A foray into flamboyance. An era of entertaining evildoers! Okay, you get the idea, we're talking about 80s movies with great bad guys and ranking the Top 5 80s Movie Villains of all time! From horror movie icons to the suave, vaguely European "corporate" villains, we talk through all genres and wicked types. Mia surprises! Q maniacally chuckles! J invades stranger's dreams! And all before breakfast. If you don't listen, we'll drop you off of a building.

We never thought we'd see the day where Zack Snyder's Justice League saw the light of day. No really, this type of thing has never happened before! High Five: The Podcast assembles the Mia, Q, and J League to find out if giving Zack Snyder $70 million and a lot of celebrities to play with was a good idea. Whether or not you loved or hated Zack Snyder's Justice League, it isn't just a singular entity. This particular movie, even more so than other DC installments, exists as part of a trilogy of stories, so the gang dives into Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (theatrical and Ultimate edition cuts) as well to see how Zack Snyder's Justice League measures up!

Join Q, as he introduces you to one of the best new shows on the Project-Nerd podcast network. In this very special sneak peek episode things get unreal with a supercut of some of the weirdest "real, fake sponsors" of High Five episodes past.  Remember to subscribe to Project Unreal wherever you listen to podcasts!

It's been a pandemic of a year and if you're like most, you've spent a good portion of it indoors looking for something to stream online. We at High Five: The Podcast feel the same way and since we're your dedicated sherpas to the world of TV and film, we're dedicating TWO WHOLE EPISODES to the TV that is worth your time to binge. J, Mia, and Q are settling in for some brain-rotting fun to figure out the Top 5 Bingeworthy TV Shows of All Time! We learn a lot about each other and decide which Wonder Years characters we would all be. Trust us, there's a lot of TV out there to watch and you don't have the time to watch it all. That's where we come in. So strap in, log on, and starting binging on the best TV out there.

We're finally doing an episode about the films of Christopher Nolan. It's about time! And so are his movies! Zing! Do you know what it's also time for? It's about time that Q, J, and Mia invited their friend, comedian, and film lover, Cortney Warner to the show. Trust us, when Mia, J, Cortney, and Q get talking about Christopher Nolan, nothing can stop them! Are you more of an "old school" Nolan-head and love his films like Memento and The Prestige or do you gravitate backward through time towards his action movies like Inception or Tenet? Whatever your flavor, stop in and hang out with some nerd talking about Christopher Nolan movies!

Behind every strong hero is an even stronger, usually adopted or unnaturally put in harm's way, sidekick! These pop culture protectors are always playing second fiddle to their more super heroes, so Q, J, and Mia decided it was time to give Sidekicks the spotlight for a bit and figure out the Top 5 Sidekicks in Pop Culture! Most of them become heroes eventually themselves, so let's be nice! Whether you're donning brightly-colored spandex for stealth missions, or helping traverse jewelry to a volcano, sidekicks can many times be the single reason a mission fails or succeeds. The gang pretty much all want to be the Sidekick of the group and there may or may not be a fight to the death. You'll have to listen to find out!

You know him. You love him. He's danced, sang, and clawed his way into our collective hearts, and on this episode, Mia, Q, and J want to do nothing but subsist on the movie candy that is Hugh Jackman! From his breakthrough performance as Wolverine to help establish superhero movies as a viable franchise type, to his live-action recording of Les Misérables, up to his career-defining turn wearing prosthetic testicles on his face! Is there nothing he can't do? We're going to find out when we rank the Top 5 Hugh Jackman Movies of All Time! It's not all talk about Hugh Jackman, though. We also talk about actors that aren't as good as Hugh Jackman and movies that are similar to The Prestige but didn't star Hugh Jackman. But ultimately, if you don't like Hugh Jackman or Hugh Jackman movies, this episode about Hugh Jackman may not be for Hugh.

Get ready because J, Mia, and Q get together to talk about the Top 5 Government Overthrow Movies in honor of all the morons who tried that in early 2021. Do people not watch movies? Coups are hard to pull off, which is made evident by how many movies there are about failed ones! In this episode, the gang dives into the headlines, but only momentarily, because it's way more fun to talk about Hunger Games, graphic novels, and cinema classics that show stories of governments toppling and fascist regimes getting their comeuppances. We also start a rally to #TakeBacktheLetterQ and all contemplate shaving our heads for the cause.

It's a debate as old as time, well, rather a debate as old as the early 90s when dueling video game systems competed in the market. Mia, our resident gamer, and her humble cohorts, J and Q, dive into a discussion that goes through every platform, every console, and damn near every SEGA iteration, to finally land our Top 5 Video Game Consoles of All Time list! Whether we're talking about Q's weird, irrational hatred of Mario, or J's obsession with little-known adventure games, you can bet that Mia is there to keep everyone in line. Find out which consoles blew our minds and which ones changed our lives on this episode of High Five: The Podcast!

Certain movies remind us what it's like to be a child. You have your Toy Stories and your American Tailses that always hold special places in our hearts, but then you have those other movies. The ones you only realize over time that, although you may have watched this as a child, it was only waiting like a sleeper cell for you to be an adult to reveal it's TRUE meanings. Q, Mia, and J look deep inside and confront their inner children and find the Top 5 Kids Movies That Are Secretly For Adults. This is deeper than cartoons that make poop jokes, we're looking for adult themes in movies with animated rabbits, robotic goliaths with human hearts, pretty much anything made by Pixar. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll call your parents and ask them for a movie night with your friends. Join us for this long-awaited sleepover!

No matter if you're starting a company with your college yuppie friends, or trying to stop mankind from slaughtering your people for their mutant powers, friendships are hard. In the happiest of movies, friendships endure, but some of the most compelling stories are actually about friendships falling apart. J, Mia, and Q climb aboard their friend-ship and hit the acquaintan-Seas to identify the Top 5 Friends Turned Enemies in movies. Along the way, our relationships are tested, assumptions are scrutinized, and we talk a lot about Jesus for some reason. There's magic, computers, pistols, backstabs, and mechanic bodysuits all in this one episode. What are you waiting for, grab your friends (soon to be enemies) and listen!

Welcome to both the beginning of a new year and the end of our 2020 HighFiveMas Spectacular! We're ending with a bang and sparkle as we look into the future to dream about the movies we can't wait to see in the new year. From 2020 delays to Marvel mysteries, Mia, J, and Q travel from the times of Arthur to the streets of New Jersey, all the way to the spice mines of deep space. All culminating in our Top 5 Most Anticipated Movies of 2021 lists! It's not all fun and games...well, yes it is, but we also delve into our thoughts on the upcoming Streaming/Theater Wars of 2021 and try to figure out what all the fuss was about when it came to Wonder Woman 1984. Start your new year off right - with your three best friends talking about a hopeful future!

No new episode this week, instead you get warm seasons greetings from Q and a little preview of what to expect from next week's brand new episode! See you on January 1st, 2021!

Wait it's not the ghost of Christmas "presents"!? It's Christmas "present"? Ohhhhhhhhhh... Well, let's be honest, 2020 was a bit of a weird year. Okay, okay, it was crap! Everyone was fighting with each other, no one could leave the house, everyone felt sick, and all we wanted to do was take a 12-month nap. So, pretty much, 2020 was exactly like our family holiday gatherings! The whole gang is gathering this week to talk about the year 2020, our Christmas stories of old, and finally ranking the Top 5 Christmas Gone Wrong Movies of all time! From zombies and monsters invading towns to sociopaths and Griswolds, we're counting down all the movies that show just how wrong a Christmas can go. Where is Santa? Why is Krampus here? Who is singing?!?! Get yourself tied to a chair and don't eat after midnight, these are all the ways Christmas can go up in flames. So, come on out to the coast, we'll have a few laughs....and a Christmas podcast!

Ho, Ho, Ho! It's that time of year again, HighFiveMas, and that means the joy of holiday movies and awkward pop culture references! Our three Hos, J, Q, and Mia, are taking the hand of that creepy ghost kid and heading into the past to relive and rank our Top 5 Christmas Movies from Childhood! You don't want to miss which movies made the biggest impacts on us as youngsters, and you definitely don't want to miss when we all travel back in time live on-air and mess with our pasts and futures!!! That doesn't happen, but we have edited that sad song from Muppets Christmas Carol back into the episode. Get those tissues (and wrapping paper) ready!

December is upon us and the happiest time of the year has officially begun: The transition of Donald Trump out of the White House! But seriously, the Yule Time and holiday season has dropped in full force, so whether you're celebrating Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chaunauka, Festivus, or anything else Mia, J and Q want to join you in feeling good by listing the Top 5 Feel-Good Movies of All Time! These are the movies that you watch whenever you see them on TV. The movies you watch when you're upset and want to feel better. The movies you reference and everyone groans every time! Let's get this holiday season off on the right foot by making each other feel good all month long!

As Thanksgiving comes to a close and we peacefully transition into the happiest time of the year, Q, Mia, and J thought it would be appropriate to talk about a movie studio that always makes us feel joyous: Pixar. This year, Pixar is giving us a Christmas present in the form of Soul on Dec. 25, so we thought, what better time to survey the CGI landscape and see what kind of competition Soul has to live up to (pun intended)? That's right! There's no better way than making a list of the Top 5 Pixar Movies so far! We dive deep into Riley's head and travel up, up, and away with an old man and a wilderness explorer. We head to space and to the land of the dead, all while being pretty super about it and getting in bed by bedtime. Can Soul live up to the Pixar movies of old? There's only one way to find out!

From the web-slinging streets of Marvel New York City, through dimensional portals to the streets of DC's Gotham, Central City, and Metropolis, the gang is breaking bad and spending time with the worst of the DC rogues galleries. Once we're through, we'll know which Top 5 DC Villains Need Their Own Movie! Along the way, Mia will make some enemies, J will experience a horrendous origin event, and Q will seek vengeance on those that wronged him (or something). Did you ever think a movie about a living lump of clay could be interesting? What about an eco-drama about dangerous plants that isn't The Happening? Maybe you're more on the road for an alien hitman splatter adventure. Whatever your DC poison, we'll have sampled it by the end of this episode. Come! Drink!

Spider-Men, Spider-Women, doing whatever Spider-People can! The multiverses are colliding and Mia, J, and Q are donning their spandex and joining the spider-ranks, so team up with Spider-Gwen (Mia), Miles Morales (Q), and Spider-Ham (J) as they merge animation styles and movie tastes to talk about the Top 5 Spider-Man Movies of all time! The entire rogues' gallery is coming out to stop us, but listen, Bud, we've got radioactive blood and we're here to list! Outside of spider-talk, the gang dives into comics in general and why Mia can't choose only one option for a list placement. There are totally not fake commercials, weird games, terrible impressions, and even more goodies on Patreon, so if you think you can escape our spidey-senses, you've got another thing coming!

Do you want to go on an adventure? Now that our High Five Fellowship has grown by one, it was time to embark on a quest into Middle Earth while Q, Mia and J explore The Shire to find their Top 5 Lord of the Rings Characters! It doesn't matter if you're a dwarf, an elf, a maiden, a warrior, or a Hobbit, there's something for every type in this week's episode. Also, don't miss our exclusive offers in our Patreon group and see our wonderful faces on YouTube as these episodes are released in fine video quality! The High Five world is growing and we want you involved. It wouldn't be an adventure without a Fellowship, but you'll have to listen to find out how long it takes us to kill off Sean Bean. Poor, poor Sean Bean.

This is it, the episode you've all been waiting for. It's the 2020 Spooktoberweentacular Finale where we finally unveil the BRAND NEW third host joining Q and J in the Writer's Room! But that's not all, we also talk Top 5 Ghost Movies of all Time with John Gray, creator of the hit television series, Ghost Whisperer! We'd love to tell you who is getting unveiled as the third host, but you'll have to listen to find who it is. You're gonna love her.  Don't worry, it's the same old High Five: The Podcast, only bigger, better, scarier, sexier, and funnier than ever! Halloween may be the scariest night of the year, but this year, you're all getting treats instead of tricks from the High Five Crew. Tune in to find out not only if your favorite Ghost Movie made the list, but if the host you've been rooting for online gets crowned! Mwahahahaha!

The “Spooktoberweentacular: Re-Animated” series brings you the absolutely horrifying bests of High Five past. Re-live our favorite Halloween-themed episodes and prepare as we build to an earth-shattering reveal on October 30th, 2020. High Five: The Podcast will NEVER be the same…again. Also, we have a pretty awesome special guest so don’t miss out! Don't tell us Halloween is over! It's true that Halloween Day was two days ago, but we're still living that spooky life and decided to go deep and give you all the definitive ranking of the Top 5 Halloween TV Specials of all time! Are you on team "Garfield's Halloween Adventure" or do you prefer "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"? Did you know that "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" started as a Canadian Halloween special? We've got a lot of horrifying tidbits to regale you with this time around, all you have to do is agree with us. Halloween is such a special time of year that many of the TV specials we all grew up with have become standard viewing for this time of year, it's just a shame we can't watch them year-round. This has been a controversial topic in the past, so don't wait to have your opinion heard. Let us know which Halloween specials scared you the most so we can all be scaredy-cats together!

The “Spooktoberweentacular: RE-ANIMATED” series brings you the absolutely horrifying bests of High Five past. Re-live our favorite Halloween-themed episodes and prepare as we build to an earth-shattering reveal on October 30th, 2020. High Five: The Podcast will NEVER be the same…again. Also, we have a pretty awesome special guest so don’t miss out! It's that scary time of year when ghosts, ghouls, and TV show Halloween episodes start to rise from their graves. And no, we're not referencing High Five's annual SpooktoberweenTacular, we're talking about when your favorite TV shows give us that amazing gift of a Halloween-themed episode to fill that insatiable sweet-tooth we all get in October. In this frightful new episode, J & Q delve into our favorite TV shows and rank which ones gave us the best treats and which ones gave us horrifying tricks. You might be surprised by which shows "make the cut" or maybe you guessed the killer in the first scene (hint: it's Shawn, it's always Shawn). When we aren't seeking out mysterious murderers or slutty pumpkins, Q & J play probably the spookiest game in the history of the show and come up with alternate versions of your favorite jingles to make them more about Q. Things are about to get dark and scary, so you'd better listen to this before the monsters come knocking. Trust us, they're fans too.