High on Hollywood

Tis the season! Austin and Clint revisit David Gordon Green and Danny McBride's trilogy of sequels to John Carpenter's seminal slasher. A deep dive into the nature of evil and what makes these films really tick ensues. Austin expresses his disdain for Halloween Kills. Clint contemplates murder. Time to get High on Halloween!

After fulfilling a prophecy they'd return to the world of podcasting, Clint and Austin are hungry. They stop-in at a diner where they encounter a Bruce Willis impersonator who, at first, seems friendly - that is, until Austin starts doing his James McAvoy impression. While Clint tries to pry the Willis impersonator away from throttling Austin, a mysterious figure records the whole thing. Welcome to round 2 of High on Hollywood!

Clint and Austin wake up in a pool in the Midwest with no memory of how they got there or why they're both wearing heavy ponchos. After Clint's partner, Lindsey, helps them escape, Austin receives a call from a director whose name rhymes with N. Kite Babylon - he shares a prophecy (aka a veiled threat): "High on Hollywood WILL return or the world must forever watch After Earth." Hearing that, Clint and Austin get to work immediately. N. Fight Shabbython's call sparks the idea to discuss Unbreakable (2000). Hilarity ensues.

In this episode, Austin and Clint take on The Avengers in their review of What If? Episode 3.

Austin and Clint uncover a conspiracy involving a Dairy Queen and bursts of Celestial energy. When they arrive, Kurt Russell invites them to sit at a booth where a mic and computer are waiting for them to record - along with an assortment of marijuana and related paraphernalia. They strike up a conversation about episode 2 of Marvel's "What If?". Hilarity ensues.

"Woah." Austin and Clint are ejected from the Matrix after they watch Clint's cat, Mittens, glitch through a wall. Despite having accidentally stumbled upon the truth of existence, Clint and Austin still eke out a little time to record a new episode of High on Hollywood before an impending onslaught of machines. Hilarity ensues.

With the MCU's Multiverse officially cracked open, Austin and Clint take a dive into Marvel's next Disney+ effort, "What If?".

In honour of the 25th Anniversary of the franchise, Austin and Clint sit down to watch and discuss the film that simultaneously blew kids' minds and traumatized them in 1986 - Transformers: The Movie. No, not Transformers (2007) with Shia, Megan Fox, and a paycheque for Hugo Weaving. We're talking OG, G1 era crazy, zany, comic book-y action paired with hard rock and Weird Al, with Orson Welles (in his final film role) and Leonard Nimoy to lend the film some real gravitas. Of course, who could forget Judd Nelson's inspiring turn as Hot Rod?! What a performance (no sarcasm here)! Trust me, you're not going to want to miss this one. Come on and get a little High on Hollywood, cause these Autobots are rolling out! “Till All Are One!”

After barely escaping the cataclysmic beginning of the multiversal war unfolding around us, Clint and Austin decide to take a load off and catch a new action flick. Their choice? Navot Papushado's "Gunpowder Milkshake" (2021) - a crazy genre film that pays homage to the endless wave of action-assassin films before it - all while attempting to carve out it's own quirky, over-the-top identity that *mostly* sticks. Sometimes it's nice to set down the existential dread and just get High on Hollywood. So what are you waiting for?!

The “man behind the curtain” is revealed. Klein Fleury and Anton Shambles realize that the error of their ways. Austin and Clint regain control of the show but things have changed - maybe, forever... the only way forward is ironically found at the end of time itself. Sounds like a good place to get High on Hollywood.

Klein (previously spelt "Cline") has Austin brainwashed into believing he is Clint. A mysterious force begins to reveal itself, pulling the strings of a far more sinister conspiracy. Has the multiverse finally begun to crack open or are we just really high… on Hollywood? One thing is certain: Klein and Austin cannot agree on this episode whatsoever.

Mobius' mustache finally grows on Austin... literally, and it won't come off for some reason. Clint suspects this mustachioed Austin could, in fact, be a Variant and calls the TVA to investigate (despite the fact that Austin willingly helped conceal Clint's Variant, Cline). Much to Clint's shock, however, HE is the Variant. A fight ensues. The result? A multiverse-wide Nexus Event. Clint and Cline escape. Austin is left to wonder if he'll ever shave again. Loki discovers himself. We're High................. oh, On Hollywood.

While Clint and I continue our review of Marvel's LOKI (2021), we also diverge into some speculation about what the future holds for the MCU and it's exploration or reinterpretation of characters we've seen before (i.e. the X-Men). Also, Clint bumps into his Variant, named Cline, and the two of them hitting it off sets in motion a chain of multiversal destruction hitherto unseen or dreamt of. We're gonna need all the luck we can get. Welcome to High on Hollywood!

Clint and Austin finally take a stab (*huehue*) at the Marvel Cinematic Universe starting with the first two episodes of Kate Herron's "Loki" (2021). As per usual, mischief and mayhem ensue.

After spending a week in a future where AI dominate the planet and have enslaved humanity, Austin and Clint decide to research a "historical document" to uncover a way to avert the robopocalypse. Enter... "The Mitchell's Vs. The Machines" (2021).

Would you break into a zombie-infested Las Vegas bank to secure a $50 million payload? Take on Zeus in Olympus? DEFY THE VERY GODS THEMSELVES?! Answers to such questions as these (and more) can be found in Zack Snyder's return to the zombie genre, "Army of the Dead". Clint and Austin sit down to discuss what worked and what didn't in the film, Snyder's creative use of horror movie tropes, and how he presents a fascinating evolution of the zombie genre - all while paying homage to everything that has come before. Come get a little High on Hollywood and see what the critics are going on about with this zany, bloody, passion project from your friendly neighborhood outspoken auteur, Mr. Zack Snyder. And remember: what happens in Vegas - oh my god... oh my GOD! Behind you! It's - akjdhjfnvcjksdbjkhtbrtbnjibgnfndbrk..,g.,gdfg.

The final games are here. The question is: will Clint and Austin solve Jigsaw's riddle before time runs out or is this "game over" for our intrepid, pot-smoking duo? Find out on High on Hollywood! Play the game to stay alive. Live or die - make your choice. By choosing to survive, are we given an opportunity to speak for the dead? John Kramer's legacy lives on.

Lights on! Austin blinks rapidly as the lights sting his eyes. Still groggy from the drugs, he takes a step. He stumbles. A cord is torn from the shotgun collar which is fastened around his neck. Austin can hear the unnerving sound of the cord winding and he immediately realizes what is happening. "I beat you!" Austin shouts angrily through blubbering tears. "I've beaten your game. What more do you want from me?!" More lights turn on to reveal Clint sitting on a tricycle dressed and painted up to look like Billy the Puppet: "That wasn't your test Austin. It was mine." The games continue and yet they've still only just begun...

Clint and Austin wake up in a bathroom that smells like the inside of a rotten whale carcass smothered in moldy butter then left to bake in the sun for three days before birds added their guano to it and a few dead fish fell inside the whale's blowhole. A toy puppet appears out of the shadows and a voice seems to echo from it: “I want to play a game. In the Blu-Ray player before you sits the Saw Collection(™), encompassing the Saw franchise from Saw I to Saw: The Final Chapter. Watch every film in the series before Spiral: From the Book of Saw comes out on May 14th and you might just discover a way out of that bathroom. Otherwise, your location will remain a secret, your bodies will never be recovered nor will anyone hear you scream as you die a slow, oxygen-less death, and this bathroom will become your tomb. Careful: there is more to the series than what you have been given. The answer lies at the beginning and the end. Live or die, gentlemen. Make your choice.”

Austin and Clint begin having strange nightmares about an ancient civilization known as the Abkani. Christian Slater mysteriously appears to warn them of a rift in dimensions that only he can seal. Meanwhile, Uwe Boll (director of "Alone in the Dark" (2006)) secretly plots the comeuppance of our pot-smoking podcasters. Will the Abkani prophecy come true or was Christian Slater lying about that 'hieroglyph' in the KFC parking lot? Can Clint defeat legendary amateur boxing champion, Uwe Boll, in the ring before time runs out? Find out this week on High on Hollywood!

After deciding to hit the road, Clint and Austin turn down a road they've never heard of before. When a few hours pass and a thick fog rolls in that makes it almost impossible to continue driving, our hosts stop-in for an overnighter at a quaint, quiet little town called Silent Hill. Realizing there's no one around, Clint and Austin light a couple joints and begin exploring. However, it doesn't take long for the town's true nature to reveal itself... What will these two stoners learn about themselves and each other? Or will Silent Hill claim their souls for all eternity?

After sending thirty fan letters over the span of a week, Austin finally receives a signed copy of "Super Mario Bros." (1993) from John Leguizamo. He invites Clint "over" for a virtual watch party. However, as the credits roll and the conversation begins, it becomes immediately clear that someone did something to the copy of the film Austin received - that perhaps the film caused a "de-evolution" in the High on Hollywood Brothers (TM). By the end of the credits, our curious hosts seem only to remember but one phrase, repeated over and over in their heads on an incessant loop: TRUST THE FUNGUS.

After receiving a strange letter in the mail about a pet squirrel they accidentally ran over in Clint's van five weeks prior, Clint and Austin embark on a road trip to meet the squirrel's owner (who intends to sue): Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Much to our intrepid duo's surprise, The Rock is ready and waiting for them - AND he's willing to rescind the lawsuit... on one condition: Clint and Austin sit through the Uncut, Unrated Edition of Doom (2005). Will our heroes survive the Hell that awaits them on Mars with Sarge and Reaper or are Clint and Austin doomed to indentured servitude to cover The Rock's losses?

NOTE: due to a minor audio issue, Austin sounds quieter than Clint - however, he can still be heard clearly! After being sucked through a portal to the year 1994, Clint and Austin find themselves trapped in the home of mega action star Jean-Claude Van Damme. Armed with nothing but a bag of marijuana and a weird enthusiasm for 1994's "Street Fighter", our two intrepid hosts must either fight for their lives or surrender their drugs. One thing is for certain: it may be Saturday, but Van Damme is so out of it that for him it's Tuesday.

BEEP BEEP MUTHTRUCKAS - the Boys are back in town with another big-rigging, rip-roaring episode of High on Hollywood. In this episode, Clint and Austin get caught-up in a rocketlauncher fight with Emilio Estevez and Pat Hingle; a truck disguised as the Green Goblin sneaks up on the Gang and terrorizes the streets; and Stephen King spends an entire production shoot absolutely blasted on cocaine.

Clint and Austin get scheduled for the graveyard shift! Thankfully, they brought plenty of joints for their smoke breaks. Oh, and a discussion that starts with Ralph S. Singelton's "Graveyard Shift" (1990) and ends with us pondering the validity of rat-bats vs. bat-rats... only time will tell which is the correct designation. (Photo by freestocks on Unsplash)

That's right folks, we have come to the end of the Dollars trilogy. Mr. Eastwood has saddled up his horse, and he is riding off into the sunset. Goodbye Westerns. Hello Horror Month

Here we are yet again, cowpokes, with a new and exciting episode of High on Hollywood. For A Few Sativa More, Austin and Clint with examining how the masculine identity is formed through the gender role of cowboys and anti-heroes. So much much! Featuring music byEnnio Morricone

The Man With No Name is the hardest man to keep down, except when you smoke a fat bowl of his majesties Royal Highness with the boyz. Then he is right on his ass reminiscing about how the west was won. Yeah, that sounds like a good way to tell you that Austin and Clint got high and watched A Fistful of Dollars

That's right folks. It's Joker time! Clint finally sat down towatch it and, surprise surprise, you are going to have to listen to the episode to find out what he thinks. Because that's life and we are all crazy like that.

Closing our talk on Chris Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, Austin and Clint are divided with on their criticisms of the Dark Knight Rises. Austin sees ''s the text as a single-handed meta-narrative on the legacy of The Batman, where Clint is completely bored of the comic-book narrative altogether. Follow us on Twitter @highonhollywoo1 or @cfleury315 or @afritastic27

The duality of right and wrong is only justifiable by the individual, or so it seems in Austin, Clint's, and special guest, The Great Shawninski's, interpretation of Christain Bales's vocal choices in 2008's The Dark Knight. It's a short, but sweet episode of High on Hollywood.

And we are back! After the brief hiatus, the dynamic duo is out for justice!

For this week's episode, Austin and Clint are throwing you into the way back machine. Here is a special pre-recorded pod on Clive Barker's Hellraiser.

Clint and Austin travel back to 1974 to interview Brian De Palma about directing "Phantom of the Paradise", only for Austin to trip and land head-first in a record press. Returning to the present, Austin receives reconstructive facial surgery... but was it all worth it? Writing tips, updates on our lives and our own writing, plus some pretty intriguing revelations about the film ensue!

Clint and Austin suffer technical difficulties. All the while, a young, disfigured genius from Paris listens to their podcast and tracks them down. Could the young man be the one responsible for the technical difficulties - operating from the shadows?! Who is Ralph?! These answers and more... if you'd just come get a little High on Hollywood with us.

Clint and Austin wind up embroiled in a Thermian conspiracy. Austin is reminded that Tony Shaloub somehow got away with playing an Asian American on-screen. A defence of Tim Allen's range ensues. Follow us on Facebooks: @highonhollywoodtbay

After getting sucked into a black hole, Spock, Austin, and Clint find themselves marooned on an ice planet. They find shelter in a nearby cave and start a fire using some of Austin's hair. to distract from the awful smell filling the cave, the trio get high on Klingon weed and discuss the pros and cons of alternate realities. Warning: there will be a rant.

The time has come to move onto the next generation. Austin and Clint get high with Jean-Luc and discuss the mysteries of time. A very evil Malcolm McDowell appears. Hilarity ensues. Special guest appearance by Captain James T. Kirk as "Man under Bridge."

In this week's episode, Austin and Clint reach out beyond our solar system to uncover the secret identities of V'ger, Kris, Spook, Bones, and, yes, the Koala. Step aside Deckard, Krik got this shit lit, and it's time for High on Hollywood. Artwork by 1darthvader https://www.deviantart.com/1darthvader/art/Star-Trek-The-Motion-Picture-148701638

Clint and Austin reminisce about a time when Freddy Krueger was the pop culture icon of the century. Austin pitches Nightmare 8 and Clint questions which deaths were the best across Nightmare's 4, 5, and 6. After a lengthy discussion, perhaps our heroes have finally rid themselves of the cursed Dream Demon... at least for now. Freddy's dead, after all!

A wrong turn in Springwood, Indiana leads Austin and Clint down Elm Street, where they reminisce about Freddy Krueger's first three attempts to subdue and murder his "beloved" children. Meanwhile, the boys also find their faces up on YouTube for the first time ever. Welcome to primetime, bitches!

In this week's episode of High on Hollywood, Austin and Clint continue their discussion on Horror Noire and the secret life of bee stings. We talk slashers flicks and problematic endings. Don't look into the mirror; listen to the podcast instead. Find High on Hollywood on Facebook: @highonhollywoodtbay Email us your suggestions (please): highonhollywoodtbay@gmail.com

On this week's episode, Austin and Clint make their way into the underground in search of their Tethered selves. Trigger Warning: High on Hollywood gets political.

This week Austin and I are talking about the themes of phallic imagery, incest, and agency in Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein. The poster art copyright belongs to the distributor of the film, TriStar Pictures.

Clint and Austin return from a viewing of "Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey", which spirals into a discussion of the wider DCEU. Under the influence, hilarity and emancipation ensue... Thumbnail is fanart by Dominic Bustamante.

A reckless group of teens who think they're living in a horror movie. A couple of dimwitted, hapless Canadian hillbillies trying to live a placid existence. What could possibly go wrong when the two parties collide? Meanwhile, Clint and I get lost in the woods trying to find a nearby grow-op. I uploaded this episode on a laptop I constructed of twigs, and a dead guy we found who had a laptop on him (the twigs were to build a case around it in case I drop it - I can be clumsy sometimes). Oh... and since this is just the beginning: Welcome to High on Hollywood! Follow us on our social accounts for news, updates, and other misdaventures: @highonhollywoodtbay @clfeury315 @afrotastic27