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Travolting

Jeff Sweeney & Stuart Elmore

A weekly investigation into the strange filmographies of cinemas most fascinating careers.

tv & film film history

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137:02

Night at the Museum

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2026/04/22

When Ben Stiller gets a job working as the night guard at the New York Museum of National History, he finds that all of the exhibits come to life! WOW! CRAZY!! Walking dinosaur skeletons, lions, monkeys, cavemen? Wait a second... civil war mannequins? Theodore Roosevelt? What kind of museum was this? Checks notes. The Museum of Natural History. Hmm...

122:06

Happy Feet

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2026/04/15

Brought to you by the same director who made Mad Max, Mad Max 2, Mad Max Beyond The Thunderdome as well as... wait a second... The Witches of Eastwick? Lorenzo's Oil? BABE!? Wow this guy's got range cause after the pig movie he makes an animated movie about penguins who sing and dance. Not likely to get existential or super dramatic at all right??

88:15

Man of the Year

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2026/04/08

In 2006, Barry Levinson (Director of Good Morning Vietnam), decided to make a movie about a TV personality running for President and actually winning the election... what a totally unrealistic concept...

33:02

Everyone's Hero

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2026/04/01

We're back! After taking a short hiatus the Travolting boys are back with the next Robin Williams installment: Everyone's Hero. An animated film about a young boy named "Yankee" who goes on a quest to retrieve Babe Ruth's lucky bat to ensure the New York Yankees beat the Chicago Cubs in the World Series.

83:25

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2026/02/07

In this wacky zany family comedy; Robin takes his family out on an RV road trip where they come across all sorts of cooky situations and strange personalities including Jeff Daniels and Kristin Chenoweth as the Gornicke family.

41:19

The Night Listener

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2026/02/07

Robin plays a radio talk show host who comes across an inspiring story about a young boy and his mother, but upon further investigating, he realizes not everything is what it seems.

79:07

The Big White

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2026/01/24

In this cold dreary time, we bring you a movie set in Alaska where Robin Williams tries to fake the death of his missing brother for life insurance money but Insurance Fraud Investigator Giovanni Ribisi starts to see the cracks in Robin's story. This is also the movie that made Robin drink again.

136:32

Robots

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2026/01/14

From the same studio that made Ice Age, comes their second movie about a world where the machine rule, where humanity is all but a forgotten past...Wait... no... this isn't the Matrix... It's ROBOTS! "Aunt Fanny... we were using our arms!"

41:20

House of D

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2026/01/07

Robin Williams plays a man with special needs who befriends a 13-year-old Anton Yelchin in 1970's era New York. That's about all we can really say about this movie since nothing else really happens. House of D? More like House of DISASTER...

97:04

The Final Cut

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2026/01/04

A futuristic sci-fi drama about a brain implant technology that records your entire life, so that when you die, these editors known as "Cutters" splice and edit your entire life down to a feature length movie that plays at your funeral. Seems like an interesting concept for so many sci-fi movies and tv shows that could really go deep into its ramifications and cultural impacts, sadly this movie does not seem that committed to exploring those ideas.

79:00

A Very Travolting Christmas 5: Noel

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2025/12/24

It's that time of the year everybody! We are back for our FIFTH Christmas episode for the Travolting podcast. This year we have a special treat because for this season we were given a very special gift that in our episode release schedule it just so happened that we were building up to a Christmas movie Robin Williams played a part in at the perfect time! Jeff and Stuart talk about the 2004 Hallmark-esque Christmas movie: Noel. Featuring as well, a very special appearance by our old friend John

93:09

The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch

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2025/12/17

A mockumentary sequel to a mockumentary about a fake Beatles parody band, only this time we are looking back at the influence and impact of The Rutles which features a multitude of A-list celebrity interviews, which is how we got roped in to covering this movie. None of us had seen the first Rutles movie: All You Need Is Cash.

112:39

Insomnia

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2025/12/10

During Robin's "Evil Trilogy" era, he plays a murderer trying to coerce a very sleepy detective Al Pacino into helping him cover up his crime. A very standard old cat and mouse "who dun it" kind of movie except for one important detail. It's directed by up and coming director at the time, Christopher Nolan.

111:36

Death to Smoochy

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2025/12/03

Robin plays Rainbow Randolph, a colorful children's TV Show Host that gets cancelled from the network and replaced with Edward Norton's Smoochy the Rhino. Rainbow Randolph does not take this well and vows an oath of vengeance to send the rhino straight to the deepest pit of hell. A lovely little black comedy.

95:44

Rental Family

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2025/11/26

Brendan Fraser makes his first post-Oscar win leading role appearance as a struggling actor living in Japan who gets involved with a Rental Family business where he gets hired to fulfill emotional roles in real people's lives. From an absent parent, a surrogate son, to a friend you've always wanted.

97:20

One Hour Photo

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2025/11/19

After a series of flops in the wake of his Oscar win, Robin decides to pivot and enters into his "dark Robin" era, starting with One Hour Photo where Robin plays a one hour photo technician who develops an unhealthy obsession with a family who he frequently develops photos for.

247:13

AI: Artificial Intelligence

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2025/11/12

A topical film in today's current technological evolution though this episode is 100% human made with no AI generative content. Jeff, Stuart and Mark, while on the verge of tears, dive deep into the ethical and philosophical goliath known as Spielberg's 2001 film, AI: Artificial Intelligence. Though this is a Robin Williams podcast, we may have spoken about Robin for a total of 5 minutes. When you see the total run time of this episode, you'll understand why that's a big deal.

119:05

Bicentennial Man

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2025/11/05

The first of Robin's "Robotic" roles. In Bicentennial Man, Robin plays Andrew, a robot butler who serves a family but realizes he has a consciousness and a soul, but rather than ask the deeper and more meaningful questions like the sanctity of life, intrinsic value and the soul, Robin is more interested in questions like "Can a robot open a bank account?" and "Can a robot and a human get married and go to pound town?"

40:07

Jakob the Liar

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2025/10/29

After the immediate flop of Patch Adams, Robin's next move in his post-Oscar win play is to portray a polish jew trying to survive in the ghetto during the Holocaust by telling fake stories to cheer up his neighbors and friends. What could possibly go wrong with that?

139:36

Patch Adams

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2025/10/22

After winning the Oscar for Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams, at the top of his fame, decides to do a movie that will utilize all the parts of him that made audiences love and adore him: making sad people feel happy. Sounds nice at first, until you watch this movie...

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