Under The Influence

The audience voted, and the Rowdy Boys have to get drunk and watch Purple Rain. Nathan makes a costume change and spends the rest of the night regretting it, Daniel ruins the rug, and AJ fails to remember the names of all the Hungry Hungry Hippos. Also: BIG NEWS! We've started offering a streaming video version of the show over at Twitch! Watch along with us over at https://www.twitch.tv/undertheinfluencepodcast/events for even more fun.

Forget about the Rowdy Boys, meet the new Mellow Boys! There's something funny about this episode... like a stinky smell and something that keeps making us laugh. Not quite sure what it is... Anyway, we watched a little movie called "Tell Your Children", but most people call it "Reefer Madness". It's an anti-cannabis propaganda film and boy oh boy is it right. We played enough arcade games in the 90's to know better. Keep that gross green loser grass away from us.  In this episode we have a Juggalo intervention, discover Wifi Frankenstien, Sinbad's IMDB gets an update, Nathan describes a very real dream he had the night before, and we nearly get run over by a train! 

It's March and that means the little gold man is here (and no, we're not talking about the leprechaun) (and no, we're also not talking about Cee Lo Green) (why are you even bringing up Cee Lo? What does he have to do with the month of March?)... that's right it's OSCAR TIME!  We put the vote to the listeners and the audience choice was Forrest Gump. Really? Guys that's what you wanted us to watch? Okaaaay. Well we put on our leg braces, drank ourselves into a below-average IQ, and did a lot of the Forrest Gump voice. Remember: if you ask someone if they're stupid and they respond with a quote from their mom, they're stupid.

We’ve been staring into the abyss for an entire month now. And the Abyss’s goofy ass rodent face is staring us right back. Daniel has aged 20 years in a night. Nathan introduces us to Roose Sprongstern, and gives a brief history of the city of Punxatawney. AJ talks about how to prepare the Groundhog for the feast. We talk sugar dispensers. The bumper stickers are making us crazy. God can’t build a gazebo so big he can’t host a party in it. Jesus was the original crime fighting wrestler. Bea Arthur can get it.

We're trapped in Hell. A Hell of our own creation, co-written by a thousand moms working at a thousand typewriters. AJ is still stumping for hardcore sex and violence, Nathan is railing against Stephen Spielberg, and Daniel introduces Daniel's Faniels: a podcast within a podcast. Hot takes on Hitler, Daniel's dad brings a loose ham sandwich to the movies, Tito the capybara prognosticates the "Big Game".  Please seriously someone help us. We're losing our minds. It's like that movie where Tom Cruise keeps living and dying and repeating. It's only a matter of time until one of us snaps.

This all feels strangely familiar... Like we've done a Groundhog Day episode already and we're being forced to relive the same episode of Under The Influence over and over. Anway, here's our February episode! It's Groundhog Day and we're bringing all the drunk movie commentary you can shake a stick at and brother, lemme tell you we shake the hell out of that stick. Get ready to hear all about our childhood friend Testarosa McGillicutty, Sonny Bono's burial plans, Shrill Murray, regional TV jingles, diarrhea poisoning, Jersey Devil Coin, a conspicuous absence of airbending, and Benjamin Button's Escape from New York.

The Rowdy Boys welcome you to AJ's beatiful dark twisted fantasy. In honor of America's Rodent we watched Groundhog Day and boy oh boy it's a journey into the mouth of madness. Along the way Nathan reveals his mutant power, we all fall in love with Andie MacDowell, there's singing, there's a lot of mouth sounds, and an inordinate amount of Michael Shannon talk. 

The holidays are upon us and the Rowdy Boys are celebrating the only way they know how: rancid eggnog shots and bargain bin presents! This Christmas we put it to our listeners and they chose the 1997 Michael Cooney  fantasy classic Jack Frost. Along the way we learn that humor is selective, we get an episode of "Sittin With It", we talk turtlenecks, superbarns, someone becomes an amaretto millionaire, but mostly we just wanna play Lear. 

Our Thanksgiving special is here! We've got the turkey and the sweet potatoes and a cool sexy caveman is gonna share it with us. We talk about using all the parts of the M. Bison, AJ can't stop picturing "that jaundiced little worm", Daniel has strong opinions about the DeLuise family, and Nathan shows off his ability to drunkenly recall the lyrics to songs that exist in fiction.

Okay so we recorded this one back in July as a "Haloween in July" goof; but never got around to releasing it until actual Haloween. So here you go: we drank a lot of tequila and watched the scary Ernest movie. Ernest makes a smelly vagina joke, Daniel reminisces about Fat Satin Jacket days, AJ gets convinced that Ernest has sinister carnal urges, and Mickey Rooney's latent racist ghost plays Ernest's father. 

  Join the Rowdy Boys as they provide a follow-along commentary track for everyone's favorite Schwarzenegger/King collabo: The Running Man! It's a cavalcade of what-the-heck-is-that-person-doing-in-this-movie stars, with our favorite Austrian muscle man fighting for freedom from an evil game show host, with musicians, athletes, wrestlers, and choreographed jazz dancers! We discuss unusual deaths, play a clip from our lost episode, talk a lot about Richard Dawson's smooch crimes, try to stay out of Arnold's death wake, both Daniel and Nathan fall asleep at different points in the show, forcing AJ to filibuster as only he can.

Whelp, we done did it again.  The Rowdy Boys™ are hopeless romantics, and so this February we put it to the listeners to choose a romantic film for us to forget we watched. That film turned out to be the 1990's Teen Shakespeare classic Ten Things I Hate About You. And brother let me tell you we watched the hell out of it. There's a few moments toward the end where we kinda forgot we were supposed to be talking.  This commentary track has it all: Andrew tries to figure out which one of us is the Krumholtz. Nathan teaches the boys how to do an Australian accent. Daniel invents several other podcasts. A girl wanders into our honeycomb hideout and is forced to read specious fan mail. 

It's the first movie of 2017 and it falls on FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH!!! So we're watching a Friday The 13th movie and you guys decided it would be Jason Takes Manhattan. Here's what you're gonna have to deal with: this movie has a lot of gratuitous nudity and as drunk boys we get stuck talking about it a lot at the beginning. We apologize for saying "titties" so much. Maybe the creators of Friday The 13th Part VIII should have worked a little more on getting that big masked murder boy to Manhattan and a little less time making ladies expose their hooters though, then we wouldn't be in this predicament. Also, apologies in advance but we broke a mic cord halfway through the episode and didn't notice so there's a bit at the end where Nathan is just faintly audible in the background. Not that he had anything worthwhile to add to the conversation, but you've come to expect a certain level of professionalism from us and... well... who are we kidding you're either surprised we haven't died or just suprised this is still a show.

It's time for your Christmas Bonus! That's right, a bonus episode of Under The Influence! Gather the family and listen as we throw a raging holiday party with a house full of guests, open presents, drink an entire punchbowl of egg nog, scream at one another ,and just generally forget that we're watching Home Alone. It's a Christmas miracle nobody threw up.    Once again, our show is somehow legitimately brought to you by Against The Grain Brewery! Check them out at www.atgbrewery.com where right now until January 31st you can get a free $10 bonus gift card when you spend $100 on gift cards for all the beer lovers in your life. Plus, this Thursday, December 8th is Get Lit Lou! The Louisville Public Library is taking over the 7 o'clock trivia at Against The Grain, and that means 50 cents off beer when you show your library card! 

The Holiday season is upon us and we're celebrating in that time-honored tradition of watching the Joe Dante's greatest Christmas movie, Gremlins! Daniel uncorks a bottle of ill-fated presidential champagne, AJ talks about the Shakespeare of dogs, and Nathan P. falls asleep again.  This month's episode is brought to you by Against The Grain Brewery! Check them out at www.atgbrewery.com where right now until January 31st you can get a free $10 bonus gift card when you spend $100 on gift cards for all the beer lovers in your life. Plus, this Thursday, December 8th is Get Lit Lou! The Louisville Public Library is taking over the 7 o'clock trivia at Against The Grain, and that means 50 cents off beer when you show your library card! 

It's the Great American political film episode of Under The Influence and we did this really hilarious thing where we recorded the episode a month ahead of time and pretended like the election was already over, and something really terrible had happened. Because there's no way that would actually happen, right? HILARIOUS JOKE.  You listeners must have been in on the joke as well, because in a terrible miscarriage of democracy you voted for Black Sheep. Nathan, in a fit of righteous indignation, drank 6 shots of tequila and an energy drink before we even started recording, and decides he's going to watch Bulworth at the same time in protest. That kinda sets the tone for this one.

The people have spoken! Or should I say... SPOOKEN??? No, no, spoken is better. It's our Halloween episode, and this month we watched Maximium Overdrive! A movie that's more famous for Stephen King directing it high on cocaine than it is for being terrible. Which is really saying something. AJ gets a delicious deal, Nathan finally finds a leading lady he can get into, we wander off into reading a review of a different movie for a while, there's a chug off, then a rap battle, the ghost of Vincent Price, and as always: many many things we wish we hadn't said.

Daniel, Nathan, and AJ drank a whole lotta tequila, ate a giant plate of bagel bites, and watched Road House. So here's your commentary track. There's a brief intermission in the middle where we take a break and perform a two-act Brechtian play based on the film, Nathan makes some editorial choices with his characters' portrayals. A lot of inappropriate things are said about Daniel's aunts. All in all, we think we've created an enhanced viewing experience for this film. Enjoy!