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Unkind Rewind

Presented by Munch Casts: A podcast inspecting our filmic nostalgia with hosts Josh Duggan, Sean McGrath, and a special guest each week. Examining whether their favorite movies have stood the test of time, Unkind Rewind revisits (and potentially ruins) the beloved movies of our youth, one guest at a time. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unkind-rewind--6119307/support.

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123:07

Space Jam with Maayan Olshan - Main Event

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/04/04

New father (congrats on #2!) and parkour/mindset coach, Maayan Olshan joins the pod to proselytize about the 1996 Michael Jordan/Looney Tunes flick, Space Jam. While Maayan can't get enough of this treasured childhood mainstay, Josh and Sean had no childhood affinity for the film. Would his unbridled passion for all Bugs and Co. transfer to the hosts? Would they take issue with the film's plot or lack thereof? Did an entire film relying upon a very famous non-actor hamstring the film or was Michael

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80:27

Qs and Tease with Maayan Olshan

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/03/27

After wrapping things up on Gymkata and Pump Up the Volume, Sean and Josh sit down with our next guest Maayan Olshan to talk parkour, being a new father, mindset coaching, and about his childhood with movies. That includes a youth spent loving a very popular film that neither Sean nor Josh saw until well into their adulthood, for podcasting. And congrats on the second kiddo, Maayan!Next week's film can currently be streamed on Netflix.Maayan Olshan can be found on Instagram, TikTok, and Beacons.As

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125:38

Pump Up the Volume with Conan Neutron - Main Event

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2025/03/21

Sean and Josh talk all things Pump Up the Volume with Conan Neutron, of the weekly podcasts Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal and Movie Night Extravaganza and of the rock band Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends, whose brand new album The Way of the Neutron dropped this week and can be streamed or purchased on Bandcamp. Conan hadn't seen Pump Up the Volume in at least 30 years, so how would his fond memories of the film hold up? Would the fap-heavy humor grate on his nerves? Did Christian

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82:36

Qs and Tease with musician/podcaster Conan Neutron

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/03/13

After dispatching of last week's film Gymkata from atop a pair of pommel horses at the village's center, Sean and Josh sit down with Conan Neutron, of the weekly podcasts Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal and Movie Night Extravaganza and of the rock band Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends, whose brand new album The Way of the Neutron drops on March 20th and can currently be partially streamed on Bandcamp. In our getting to know you session with Conan, we dig into his life as a musician, his

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109:51

Gymkata with Greg Schaum - Main Event

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/03/06

Greg Schaum--former Royals post-game radio host, baseball advisor/agent, Director of Player Development, and current Partner and Director of Sports Recruiting at Klutch MFM--joins us to look back at the film he grew up loving that boldly asked the question: What if we took an Olympic-level athlete who may or may not be charismatic enough to carry a major motion picture and tried to turn him into a martial arts movie star, complete with an entirely new discipline built around his legitimately

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64:55

Qs and Tease with Greg Schaum

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/02/27

After putting a bow on St. Elmo's Fire and discussing the Oscars, Josh and Sean sit down with Greg Schaum, former baseball advisor/agent, Director of Player Development, Royals post-game radio host and current Partner and Director of Sports Recruiting at Klutch MFM. We talk chasing dreams, getting the acting bug, and growing up with one foot in the world of sports with the other in film, before leaping into his past with a delightfully bizarre film that in its own special way speaks to the duality

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113:39

St. Elmo's Fire with author Chelsea Cain - Main Event

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/02/20

Chelsea Cain--the best-selling author of Heartsick and the subsequent five books in the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series, which count themselves amongst the more than a dozen books and comic book series on her bibliography--sits down with us to talk about the movie from which the term "Brat Pack" sprung unflatteringly, the 1985 Joel Schumacher film starring Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Mare Winningham, St. Elmo's Fire. How did the

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65:02

Qs and Tease with author Chelsea Cain

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/02/13

After tying up some Phase IV loose ends, Josh and Sean sit down with Chelsea Cain, the best-selling author of Heartsick and the subsequent five books in the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series, which count themselves amongst the more than a dozen books and comic book series on her bibliography. After commiserating over having such horrifying search histories on account of their creative endeavors that they're probably on watch lists and extolling the virtues of Tom Selleck's legs, they dive

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90:31

Phase IV with Mightie Minx - Main Event

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/02/07

Neither Josh nor Sean had ever even heard of Phase IV when Mightie Minx submitted her list, but when they saw that it was the only feature directed by graphic design legend Saul Bass--who'd created some of the most striking opening title sequences in cinematic history--they knew they couldn't choose anything else. So what did Saul Bass make with this one shot at the helm? A movie pitting man against ant. Er, ANTS. Like a couple billion of them. Enough to get us using "anted" as a verb. Shockingly,

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51:28

Qs and Tease with Victoria Walsh

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/01/30

After catching up on pod business from the Dreamscape eps with Ted Douglass, UKRW sits down with the Mightiest Minx in the former Royals/Chiefs Twitterverse that's since migrated to other platforms, Victoria Walsh. If you thought last week's film was an odd one, wait until you see what Tori brought along this time. Directed by a luminary artist, starring just a handful of actors opposite millions of tiny adversaries whose goal was the enslavement of mankind, this was one neither Josh nor Sean had

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110:47

Dreamscape with actor/sketch comic Ted Douglass -...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/01/23

Portland-based actor, sketch comic, writer, director, producer, and bon vivant, Ted Douglass comes back this week to discuss the largely forgotten Dennis Quaid star-vehicle from 1984, Dreamscape. Do the film's creators have grounds for a lawsuit against Christopher Nolan for having totally stolen the idea of Inception from this film? Can the film redeem itself after having its hero commit one of the most heinous acts we've seen a hero commit yet in this podcast's history? When matched up in a cast

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76:55

Qs and Tease with actor/sketch comic Ted Douglass

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/01/16

After Josh and Sean catch up on pod business from the last two movies covered, they sit down with Portland multi-hyphenate creative (he can write, he can act, he can direct, he can produce--what can't he do???) Ted Douglass for a raucous journey through his childhood spent mostly in suburban Portland, diving into juvenile hot dog scamming, renting movies to Kevin Duckworth, and a whole host of other miscellany. And of course, next week's strange film and what Ted is able to recall about it while

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91:47

The Lost World: Jurassic Park with Summer Santos...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/01/09

Joined by Summer Santos Webber, we talk about one of the top grossing films of the 1990s, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a movie she so badly wanted to see she built her birthday party around it that year. How did it play now to Summer? How did it play now to Sean and Josh, who didn't have nostalgia for the film working in its favor? Would any of them be opining about building a time machine to change the past? There's only one way to get the answer to these and so many more questions about this

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55:12

Qs and Tease with Summer Santos Webber

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/01/02

Join us as we chat with Summer Santos Webber, denizen of all corners of the internet, digging into what she remembers about one of the top grossing films of the 1990s, a movie she so badly wanted to see that it was what she did for her birthday party that year. What does she recall? How does she think it will play to her as an adult? Listen and find outNext week's film can be streamed on Max or Starz.Summer can be found on: Twitch, BlueSky, Twitter, and InstagramAll music in the show was composed by

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83:43

Cloak & Dagger with musician/comic Mike Wiebe - Main...

Unkind Rewind ·

2024/12/19

Comic and lead singer of Riverboat Gamblers and Drakulas, Mike Wiebe joins us to revisit this surprisingly dark youth-oriented film that puts young Davey Osborne through the ringer in a Hitchcockian wrong man--er, wrong boy tale of international intrigue and kids out on the town. Kindertrauma abounds in this week's delirious ride through central San Antonio via the 1984 children's(?) film Cloak & Dagger, where our young hero played by Henry Thomas watches bodies fall around him, and eventually

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59:43

Qs and Tease with musician/comic Mike Wiebe

Unkind Rewind ·

2024/12/13

This week, Sean and Josh talk with musician/comedian Mike Wiebe, who music fans would know as the frenetic frontman of both the bands Riverboat Gamblers and Drakulas and who comedy fans would know as half of the comedy duo the McCuewans in addition to his more than a decade doing stand-up. We talk about growing up in Denton, and how growing up in Texas helped make our next selection more important to him than it might have for a kid who grew up somewhere else. We also dig into kindertrauma, on-stage

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87:49

Tuck Everlasting with Karyn Raynor of Chick-Lit, with...

Unkind Rewind ·

2024/12/05

Having rewatched the beloved teen romantasy flick from her youth, 2002's Tuck Everlasting, Karyn Raynor of Chick-Lit, with Karyn and Aubree, is forced to reckon with its highly problematic (and later stolen) premise in which a 15-year-old girl is groomed by a 104-year-old immortal man in the body of a 17-year-old boy. Poor accents, plot holes, thinly fleshed out lore, and strange choices abound, and the origins of long-running television shows not even remotely related to this property can be traced

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41:30

Qs and Tease with Karyn Cooper of Chick-Lit with...

Unkind Rewind ·

2024/11/29

Join us as we chat with Karyn Cooper of Chick-Lit, with Karyn and Aubree, digging into what she remembers about a beloved film adaptation of a teen romantasy book that was a bit of an awakening for Karyn and a movie neither Sean nor Josh had any relationship with before this podcast. We also talk about her sheltered youth and Sean's acting résumé that coincidentally currently ties in with Karyn's podcast.Next week's film can be streamed on Disney Plus.Chick-Lit, with Karyn and Aubree can be found at

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116:22

Brainstorm with Leo Allen of Voluntary Input and...

Unkind Rewind ·

2024/11/21

We throw on the helmet and strap in for a weird, wild ride this week as we watched the 1983 sci-fi family dramedy Brainstorm, featuring the ill-fated star-crossed lovers Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood, in the film that would prove to be her last, as she died tragically and mysteriously while this film was down for the holidays. Leo Allen host of the Voluntary Input podcast and the mind behind the music project Profound Simplicity joins us to discuss this gem from his youth. What would our lives

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53:47

Qs and Tease with Leo Allen of Voluntary Input and...

Unkind Rewind ·

2024/11/14

After Sean and Josh catch up on things after a few months down between Seasons 1 and 2, Josh sits down with our special guest for this week and next, Leo Allen, who shares a soft spot in his heart for next week's film, which is simultaneously not well known and yet somewhat significant, historically speaking. It's a great time with Leo. Disclaimer: there is some election postmortem talk near the top of the episode, so once that starts, you can skip ahead to about the 10:20 mark if you'd like to

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