Old Movies For Young Stoners

Oct 10 2024 42 ep. 77 mins 19

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The podcast that makes cannabis a gateway drug to classic cinema. Co-hosted by Bob Calhoun, Philena Franklin, Cory Sklar & Greg Franklin

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S3E14 Off-Brand Hammer Horror feat. Rowan Lee w/ The Creeping Flesh (1973) & The Crimson Cult (68)

Oct 10 2024 96 mins

With Halloween only 21 days away, folk horror blogger Rowan Lee joins us to discuss a pair of offbeat Brit horror movies with totally loaded casts. First, Peter Cushing discovers that the humanoid fossil he discovered in New Guinea transforms into the slimy embodiment of pure evil when you just add water in THE CREEPING FLESH (1973). In a film with f--d-up family dynamics, Cushin

S3E13 Feminist Westerns feat. Audra Wolfmann w/ Johnny Guitar (1954) & Forty Guns (57)

Sep 18 2024 86 mins

Three time Ms. Noir City Audra Wolfmann joins us once again to look at some of the strangest Westerns ever produced by Hollywood. Both of these films have surprisingly feminist themes while being directed by two of the studio system's true iconoclasts. First, Joan Crawford as saloon keeper Vienna is pitted against Mercedes McCambridge as the sexually-frustrated matriarch Emma Sma

S3E12 Voyeurism feat. Ngaio Bealum & Ajax Green w/ Rear Window (1954) & Cairo Station (58)

Sep 03 2024 86 mins

With both Franklins on assignment, cannabis comic Ngaio Bealum and Instagram movie reviewer Ajax Green (@leonard_malted) join us for an exploration of voyeurism in film. First, we've got the ultimate voyeuristic spectacle with Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece REAR WINDOW (1954), the first work from the Master of Suspense we've featured on this show, and we've only been at it for ne

S3E11 Blaxploitation Feat. Odie Henderson w/ Blacula (1972) & Darktown Strutters (75)

Aug 11 2024 112 mins

Boston Globe movie critic ODIE HENDERSON joins us to talk about his new book, BLACK CAESARS AND FOXY CLEOPATRAS: A HISTORY OF BLAXPLOITATION. For this, Odie has programmed two equally stony but very different examples of the film movement that further funkified the 1970s. First, Shakespearean actor William Marshall brings dignity and pathos to the title character of the horror clas

S3E10 Damned Hankys w/ Hanky Panky (2023) and Village of the Damned (1960)

Jul 29 2024 59 mins

Lindsey Haun and Nick Roth join us for this SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE to talk about their new tubi sensation, HANKY PANKY (2023), a sci-fi stoner comedy where a man and his sentient handkerchief battle a brain-eating hat from another dimension with the fate of the universe hanging in the balance. Nick and Lindsey co-direct and star in this inspired piece of cinematic shenanigans and Se

S3E9 The Antifa Episode w/ Duck Soup (1933) & Death Race 2000 (1975)

Jul 16 2024 83 mins

Fascism is scary AF but it's always been ripe for satire, so as counter programming to this week's RNC, we're pairing strains with two sendups of strutting authoritarians with THE ANTIFA EPISODE, aka the F--K FASCISM EPISODE. Hitler was named chancellor of Germany in January 1933, and the Marx Brothers spoofed the shit out of him by the end of the year with DUCK SOUP, which is wi

S3E8 Criterion Crackup feat. Ngaio Bealum w/ Point Blank (1967) & Pressure Point (62)

Jun 17 2024 83 mins

The Dank Diplomat Ngaio Bealum is back on OMFYS and he's picked a pair of movies to get high to from Criterion Channel's current series HOLLYWOOD CRACK-UP: THE DECADE AMERICAN CINEMA LOST ITS MIND. First, LEE MARVIN is punching dudes in the nuts and throwing them out of high-rise windows all to get his $93,000 back in POINT BLANK (1967). It's heavy on the testosterone but has lots

S3E7 The Bret Berg Made for TV Museum w/ Gargoyles (1972) & Death of a Cheerleader (94)

May 28 2024 79 mins

Bret Berg from the Museum of Home Video and the American Genre Film Archive joins us and he has chosen a pair of made for TV movies ranging from 70s horror to 1990s ripped-from-the-headlines true crime. Our first feature is GARGOYLES (1972) one of the many TV terrors that scarred Gen-Xer childhoods. Cornel Wilde and Jennifer Salt are a father-daughter team of occult researchers w

S3E6 PhilenApocalypse II w/ But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) & Sleepover (2004)

May 06 2024 77 mins

It's been delayed, but IT COULD NOT BE STOPPED. The PhileApocalypse is here!!! The episode where Philena takes over and subjects the OMFYS olds to MORE RECENT FILMS--movies from this century even! Can they take it?!? The answer may surprise you. First, Philena goes easy on the geezers with BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (1999)--an actual good movie! Is such a thing possible??? Natasha Lyo

S3E5 - Bringing Up Hawks w/ His Girl Friday (1940) & The Thing from Another World (51)

Apr 19 2024 68 mins

The PhilenApocalypse has been postponed! While Philena ain't too thrilled with this development, we were able to keep our already inconsistent schedule with this Howard Hawks double feature, which is like a PhilenApocalypse prequel because her contrarian take on Howard Hawks' screwball classic BRINGING UP BABY (1938) is what landed her on OMFYS. In short, she hates it--AFI Top 100