Drive-In Double Feature Podcast

Nathan and Ryan roll into Airborne (1993), the extreme-sports teen movie that swapped skateboards for rollerblades and sent a California surfer kid to the frozen Midwest. Starring Shane McDermott alongside a young Seth Green and Jack Black, the film mixes fish-out-of-water comedy with downhill skating races, high school rivalries, and peak early-’90s “extreme” culture. The hosts break down the movie’s wild rollerblading set pieces, its time-capsule soundtrack and fashion, and why Airborne became a nostalgic cult favorite for anyone who remembers when inline skates ruled the sidewalks.

Nathan and Ryan drop into the neon-soaked skate scene with Thrashin’ (1986), the cult skateboarding movie that tried to capture the rebellious spirit of mid-’80s skate culture. Starring Josh Brolin as a young skater caught between rival crews—the Ramp Locals and the Daggers—the film mixes romance, turf wars, and plenty of downhill skating chaos. The hosts talk about the movie’s place in the short-lived skate film boom, its killer soundtrack, early appearances from future stars, and why Thrashin’ remains a fascinating time capsule of California skate culture before it went mainstream.

Nathan and Ryan step into the wonderfully weird world of Twice Upon a Time (1983), a cult animated fantasy that feels like a Saturday-morning cartoon filtered through counterculture surrealism. Using the experimental “Lumage” animation process, the film tells the story of a timid dream-maker and a cynical hero teaming up to stop nightmares from overtaking reality. The hosts break down the movie’s offbeat humor, psychedelic visuals, and why it stands as one of the strangest non-Disney animated features of the era. It’s charming, unsettling, and completely unlike anything else released in the early ’80s.

Nathan and Ryan dive into Protocol (1984), the Goldie Hawn–led political comedy where a well-meaning Washington D.C. tour guide accidentally becomes an international diplomatic incident. The hosts unpack the film’s fish-out-of-water humor, Cold War–era politics played for laughs, and how Hawn’s charm carries a movie that lives somewhere between satire and mainstream ’80s studio comedy. From embassy etiquette to media spin, this episode looks at Protocol as both a lighthearted star vehicle and a strange time capsule of Reagan-era optimism and political simplicity.

Nathan and Ryan unleash Munchie (1992), one of the most notorious Gremlins knockoffs of the direct-to-video era. Starring Dom DeLuise as the voice of an obnoxious, fourth-wall-breaking creature of chaos, the film follows a kid whose new “friend” helps him deal with bullies, adults, and basic logic through nonstop noise and bad jokes. The hosts break down the movie’s endless mugging, cartoon physics, and why Munchie feels less like a family film and more like an endurance test. Love it, hate it, or fear it—this is peak early-’90s VHS insanity.