Tremors

This is Free With Ads, the podcast that asked the question: why pay $1.99 per episode to watch Kevin Bacon's classy prestige TV shows when you can go online for free and see him all sweaty, picking his wedgie, and screaming, fuck you, to a giant worm.

I'm Jordan Morris.

And I'm Emily Fleming.

On today's one-year anniversary of Free With Ads, we're discussing the horror comedy classic Tremors

because everyone knows the customary gift for the one-year anniversary is worm guts.

With us always is super producer Matt hitting us with those subterranean drops.

Broke into the wrong goddamn wreck room, didn't you, you bastard?

Fits perfectly.

Hell yes.

I love that guy.

Before we get into this movie, which is as of this recording streaming free with ads, we want to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week.

Other free stuff.

There it is.

This is something I saw for free on Matt Lieb's Instagram.

On my Instagram?

On your Instagram.

I saw this wonderful free video.

Oh, boy.

And I don't know.

I think we should just play it and talk about it.

Matt, would you play this video?

You got it.

Pod Yourself A Gun is a rewatch podcast whose title references a lyric in the theme song of this acclaimed HBO drama.

Natalie.

What is the Sopranos?

Yes, Pod Yourself A Gun.

That takes you to the bottom.

Oh, my God.

Everybody's off to a good start.

So here's what we just heard.

Matt Lieb doesn't just co-host and produce this show.

He's also the co-host and producer of Pod Yourself a Gun.

That's right.

The Sopranos Rewatch podcast, which was a fucking Jeopardy clue.

That's right.

What the fuck?

That's true.

When did this happen?

This was, I don't know, a week ago.

No!

Yeah, I know.

I know.

It's crazy.

This is so cool.

You spend years and years of your life.

You think you're throwing it away just talking about your favorite TV show.

Oh, now, hang on.

You were mentioning the New York Times.

I do remember that.

That's true.

That's true.

I've bragged about that a lot.

I hope you.

I love that you brag for me.

Oh, yeah.

I love that.

But yeah, no, it just completely caught me off guard.

All of a sudden, I said, So, they don't talk to you about it.

No, they're not.

No one called and said, Hey, guess what?

We're about to make your dreams come true.

Right.

So, you don't get paid to be a clue.

No, no, no.

You don't need to give, like, you know, when the answer to a clue is Shea Stadium.

Shea Stadium doesn't need to sign off on it.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Hey, if you want to talk about our stadium, you got to pay me.

No, but it's me, the stadium.

So I all of a sudden started getting messages.

I started getting like DMs and people tweeting at me and stuff.

And I just, I couldn't believe it.

And then I went and watched the episode for a very petty reason

because I wanted to see what the other four podcasts, TV rewatch podcasts, were questions.

So the category was TV rewatch podcast.

Exactly.

Okay.

So it was kind of built for my podcast.

Literally the only reason it would ever be mentioned.

And all the other ones were TV rewatch podcasts that were hosted by actors who were in the show.

Okay.

And so I felt like we were the only pure TV podcast.

You are.

Yeah, because the rest of them, they already get

money.

Yeah, it's true.

There is, and I won't name names about the ones that do it, but like

it's most of them.

Most of the most successful ones are the ones like the person from the show talks about the show they're on.

And that makes sense, I guess.

Of course, I get why people would listen to it.

So, I have listened to the True Blood podcast that

Pam, who is my favorite character in True Blood, who is the former Madam and like a

She's in love with Jim, and they have this whole thing where

Pam from True Blood, right?

But she's engaged to roy oh god here we go and when kevin smelled that chili

cell phone i have a t-shirt from that i got it charged

the office it's my personality i get it i get it i'll stop talking no no no no i want to hear no no all i'm saying is yeah it's it's happened it's kind of like when

I used to go on commercial auditions, never fucking again.

And then you'd see people who were on the office in the waiting room to do the fucking shitty commercial.

And you're like, bitch, you have residuals.

Yeah.

You don't need this.

Why are you here?

It's like, this is a $1,000

day rate.

Like, get out of here.

You are making this right now because your episode is playing on Comedy Central five times this month.

In a row.

Yeah.

It's because that's what TV is now.

It's like, it's kind of like

artist capitalism, where it's like artists fucking over other artists.

I think it's just not great.

I agree completely.

It's not great, but

this is what I'm saying.

Do your thing, whatever.

Yeah, listen, if you want to talk about the TV show you're on, feel free.

It's going to be very popular.

Good for you.

Listen, if the two chicks from the office just stay out of my scheme to sell my dirty socks, they can do whatever the fuck they want.

I don't care.

But my sake's that's my thing.

You can't have that.

This is something I wondered when I saw this clip, and I was very excited for you, Matthew.

Is that like

this is one of those things that your parents were probably stoked Yeah, right?

Oh, yeah.

Finally.

Yes.

I sent it to my parents and I said, guys.

And they're like, we were watching live.

We're old people.

We are watching Jeopardy Live.

And it was amazing.

It was the first time that I think

they actually have a piece of media they can show to other parents and be like, see, my son did something with his life.

And, you know, so that's nice.

And I think this is maybe something we all kind of deal with a little bit.

Working in on

the fringes of the entertainment industry.

We're near it.

Yeah, we are.

Yeah, if we squint and stand on a ladder, we can see the entertainment industry.

Yes.

Those of you listening at home who think this, what you're hearing, is a product of the entertainment industry.

Okay.

No, this is the product of desperate perverts.

I want.

Hey.

Yeah, I am a pervert.

Sorry, I am.

I've worn these socks three days.

Hell yeah.

They're getting nice and juicy for the daddy and the mommy.

And the babies.

The point is, is that it was very exciting for my parents, very exciting for us.

Yeah.

And then, you know, kind of it's been a week now.

And

it's been a week.

It's been a week since I was on Jeopardy.

And yeah, it's all kind of worn off.

And now just like, well, I guess nothing happens after that.

Yeah.

You peaked.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

I think I can die now.

You're going to be like Al Bundy winning the trophy at Polk High.

I think Free With Ads will get there, okay, guys?

Oh, I hope so.

We're going to get there.

We're going to get to be at Jeopardy question.

Jeez.

Call us.

Call us, Ken Jennings.

Well, hey,

that was other free stuff.

And now it's time to talk about Tremors.

We've been wanting to do this one for a while.

It's one of those movies that's constantly kind of ebbing and flowing out of the free with ads averse.

Yes.

And, you know, we talked about what to do for the one-year anniversary, and this kind of seemed like the one.

Emily, you're a huge Tremors head.

Can you talk about when you first saw this movie

and

how it relates to your life?

I've seen this movie so many times.

Like,

I didn't see it in the theater, but I definitely saw it on TV.

Another thing, I just read recently that NBC is like selling a lot of its cable channels that are underneath it, and Sci-Fi Channel is one of them.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Very, I'm, I'm nervous.

I love sci-fi channel as a kid.

I thought you were thinking of buying it.

Oh, trying to get some money together.

Listen,

I can't wear enough socks in these boots to, you know, maximumfun.org/slash join.

Help us buy

sci-fi channel.

How cool would that be?

But I saw it on there.

I loved it.

I think I saw it on there.

And then it would be like on every network.

It was like TBS, like it was on there all the time.

I just remember being obsessed with it because, A, Reba McIntyre.

Oh, yeah.

Sure, sure, sure.

And B,

Mindy, the little girl, is also the blonde girl from Jurassic Park.

I know.

I like thinking that it's the same kid and she just had a rough couple years again.

No, seriously, as a kid, I just thought, oh, this is her origin story.

Right.

And then she went to go hang out with her grandpa, who's got like other prehistoric whatever, because who knows where the tremors came from.

Right.

They, you know, it might be like a Godzilla type thing.

It could be.

The tremors and Godzilla might be related.

They could be.

Yeah.

They don't really explain it, at least in this one.

And I like that.

Which I love.

Me too.

I like how like this movie is just all about running from tremors and not about really anything else.

It is lean and fucking mean.

And yeah, and this is this is something I

think about a lot is that like, now I've seen the second tremors.

There are like...

I haven't seen any of the other tremors.

There's like seven of them.

No, there's like a lot of them.

Michael Gross.

Is there 11?

Oh, my God.

Jesus.

Michael Gross, I think, is in all of them.

And that's the only original cast member.

And God bless him, by the way.

Who is he playing?

The gun nut, Rebus Hussain.

He did pass away not just.

Oh, did he?

Oh, my gosh.

But we've got...

There's a couple other people that have like, you know, carried the torch.

I don't know when the last one is but i have talked about this on this podcast that there has been a tremors convention that happens in lone pine i think my california live what i think he i think he was going to be at pasadena comic-con

when i was going to be there and then they canceled it so happy he is because he's from all in the family or no not all in the family um what was the the tv show family ties he was the dad in family ties i believe um well if he still

I already poured one out for him.

I'm going to go Zamboni it up.

Michael Gross.

Okay, yeah.

Oh, good.

He is alive.

Thank fucking Christ.

We could crank out a couple more Tremors movies.

Like

2020's Tremors Shrieker Island.

Oh, Michael Gross.

I'm so sorry.

I just remember feeling sad because I thought there wouldn't be any more crazy Tremors movies.

But I know Lone Pine, California, in the desert, which I guess Lone Pine Star Trek episodes have been made out there, like the original Star Trek, old school, like William Shatner.

And there is a film museum out there that has some of the trimmers, like the

puppets, the practical effects ones.

And they, the cast, like the ones who were up for it, show up there like once a year.

I don't know if they're still doing it, but if they are still doing it, I want y'all to know we are very interested in hosting.

Oh, yeah.

Please, I would love to go out to Lone Pine.

It looks really cool.

It's not terribly far from Joshua Tree, which I love Joshua Tree.

Yeah, Joshua Tree's a good one.

No more Vegas for me.

I'm going to Joshua Tree.

Oh, yeah.

I'm done with Vegas.

I want to go to the desert and trip balls and like rediscover myself.

I don't know.

Have sex.

Have sex

under the

have sex.

That's

it.

Have that.

Whoa.

Cool.

You do that in the desert?

It's legal?

Yeah, near a boulder.

Oh, yeah.

I'm always.

I haven't done that.

I'm too scared of snakes and scorpions.

We'll do it during the day.

They are asleep.

Well, last time I went to Joshua Tree, which I love it,

there was, I stayed in this like glamping kind of thing.

It was like an indoor-outdoor structure.

Yes.

It was great.

And there was a lady who lived in a trailer on the property who was like running the thing.

So if you had issues, you could go holler at her.

But I was so scared about snakes and scorpions that I got scorpion repellent.

Like you can

that at Army, Navy surplus stores.

And, but the snakes were freaking me out.

And she goes, it ain't snake season.

And I'm like, how do you know?

And she goes,

there ain't no snakes.

When you see a snake, you go, oh, snake season.

Must be snake season.

Cool.

That's how you know.

She goes, I ain't seen any snakes.

I'm like, okay, lady.

By that logic, it has never been snake season for me.

But there was like a ton of jackrabbits, which I love jackrabbits.

Anytime I see one, I'm like stoked to see a jackrabbit and those kangaroo mice oh my god i love a kangaroo mouse anyway we would love to host so yeah we we listen we petitioned very hard to be invited to blob fest yes um and to go to the birds where that bar oh yeah i don't think they have an official birds festival there but i think they do have like well maybe we could book a show there Oh, sure.

Yeah.

Hey, if you own the birds restaurant, please have us.

We'd love to do a show there.

Please.

So we, because we we were ignored by blob fest

tremors fest you can swoosh in become our favorite local monster festival free with ads at maximumfun.org let us know um we're cheap matt we're very cheap um we'd do it just to pet a little kangaroo rat

that's true um matt have you seen tremors before this this was my first time seeing tremors really yeah i i knew of tremors i mean tremors is one of those things you see a commercial for like part seven on sci-fi or whatever yeah any Viacom channel, and it's like, watch another Tremors movie, and you're like, I know there's little worms down there.

What I didn't know about the movie

was that

it just is

the same dune logic, uh, like it's very dune-yes, and which I was like, this is actually great.

I almost like this more than Dune because it's way better than Dune.

I don't need any of that nerdy bullshit.

Just give me the worms.

Yeah, there ain't no religion, there's no religion in Trimmer.

Iraq is

only in Idaho is guns and America.

That's it.

It's funny.

It actually is just like, it feels like a spin-off.

It's all Dunkin' Idaho's and it's all sandworms, which I love.

Give me that.

This movie is about like male friendship,

which I like.

Yes.

And like how people don't listen to conspiracy theorists.

Yeah.

And they should, according to this movie.

Yeah, according to this movie.

I know.

It's funny.

It's like seeing conspiracy theorists in movies.

Like, they're such fun characters.

And like, obviously, Michael Gross and Reba are so fucking great in this movie.

Reba is so beautiful.

She's great.

She looks amazing.

Freckles on her.

Yeah, her freckles look great.

I love her.

And yeah, her like wielding all those fucking giant archaic guns is so cool.

So cool.

But you're like, oh.

These people were there on January 6th.

Like if this was a real

the people who like who lived through the graboids were shitting on Nancy Pelosi's desk.

It's unfortunate because this was at a time when, remember when conspiracy theories and theorists were fun.

Right?

Yeah.

It was all Bigfoot and aliens.

Aliens.

Yeah, exactly.

But I mean, he talked about World War III quite a bit.

Yeah, it's a punchline like five times in this movie.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, so I think I have shared my Tremor's origin story on this podcast.

I'll recap it really quick.

I saw it in theaters with Tim Coda and his mom, and I got too scared and I I asked to leave and we went just in to see Steven Spielberg's Always.

Anyway,

which I did see was free with ads at one point.

Oh, was it?

I would love to revisit Always.

Yeah, I think I only saw it when I was too scared of tremors.

And then I went back and watched it like as an adult.

I'm like, oh, I was, this is a funny movie.

And I, anyway, but I do.

I have revisited it since and totally love it.

No, you've seen it.

You scared the shit out of me when I was young, too.

Anything about being sucked underground?

And like when you get sucked underground in these movies, it's like people are coughing up blood because their lower body is being eaten off.

And just that image of the blood coming out of the mouth, that really messed me up.

So I think little subtle things like that are better than straight-up gore.

I think this would have done weird things for my sexuality if I'd seen it as a kid.

Yeah.

Because I, I mean, I saw in that conda and I had weird feelings.

A lot of openings, a lot of

getting sucked.

A lot of

John Voyage getting like barfed up again.

That did it for you.

I don't know what it was.

Something about being eaten whole.

I was just like, oh, no, my penis.

Oh, somebody's into vore.

Somebody's in divorce.

But, you know, yeah, so I'm kind of glad I didn't see this movie.

Well, yeah, let's talk about what happens in Tremors.

Our first shot.

It's

sexy ass 20s Kevin Bacon.

He's in an undershirt.

He's picking his wedgie, and he's got a buddy named Earl.

They're handy men, and that's all we learned about them ever.

This This fucking lean movie.

Get to the tremors.

And you know, the Earl,

he's a guy who loves a plan.

Kevin Bacon, he never plans ahead.

Boom, we got two characters.

What more do you want?

And there's also, they hear they're driving around doing their handyman shit, and they hear there's a girl in town from the university.

And Kevin Bacon gets so excited.

A college girl.

A college girl in town.

He hopes that she's blonde with quote-unquote world-class breasts.

I'm so sick of these fucking national breasts.

Yeah, exactly.

Goddamn regional.

Local breasts.

I want world-class breasts.

Exactly.

Mine could wrap around the world

at my age.

Is that good enough?

I want it to choke out the world.

I want boobs that are in the equator.

I want titties in all time zones.

I got titties in different areas.

Exactly.

And he also says, and legs that go all the way up, which is something I've always been like.

It's not that mean.

I know.

That's like always something that like horny guys say in movies, but it's like, anyway, what do you mean?

Is that like cankles, but for legs?

Like, your crotch is too low.

Are there legs that just stop?

Yeah.

Stop in the middle somewhere.

Never mind.

I'm going back.

You got to hunt for that puss.

So the girl, the girl turns out to be Ronda, and Kevin Bacon sees her, and he's like, oh, gross.

Because she has brown hair.

And

she's got sunscreen on her neck.

She's got her sink on

What an idiot.

No, they will fall in love.

She is very cute.

She is great.

And they all, so she's getting some seismic readings.

I wonder what those are.

They're the tremors.

They go to a little corner store where kind of the town gathers where everybody loves Pepsi, always drinking fucking Pepsi.

Oh, beep Pepsi store.

They had a sponsorship.

If they didn't, then fucking, they just got a bunch of free advertising.

Oh, it's definitely a lot of Pepsi.

I will say Pepsi Pepsi always has the best advertising.

They do.

And Coke is just like phoning it the fuck out of it.

Yeah, Coke doesn't need it.

I'm going to train myself to like Pepsi for now.

Yeah, I think.

It's going to take a lot of gumption.

Because it tastes like shit.

It's relatively similar.

No, it's not at all.

It's not at all similar.

All right, all right, fair enough.

And that's where we meet the conspiracy theorists, Reba McIntyre, Michael Gross, who I think is the tallest person in this movie.

Woo!

Tallest guy!

So they're hanging out talking about stuff, and then we get some POV shots from under the ground.

I wonder what that is.

It's the tremors.

I do love those.

Me too.

They're neat.

Yeah, they're very like Evil Dead.

They're very like those Evil Dead shots where you put the camera on the ATV.

It's very like kind of cool.

And, you know,

it's very like practical.

It looks neat.

And something I love is that...

So the tremors, they hunt by vibrations.

So obviously all the kids in the town are doing something that vibrates the ground.

You got a kind of a shitty teen kid playing basketball.

You got a little girl on a pogo stick.

Like these kids love to vibrate the ground.

And it all kind of comes back later.

I really love that about this kind of setup stuff.

And so, you know, Kevin Bacon and Earl are driving around.

They recognize a guy on top of an electrical tower.

Weird that they recognize him because he's so high up.

Far, far away.

There's an ADR line, or what I think is an ADR line, of Kevin Bacon parking the car.

You don't see him say this.

He's just like, I recognize that jacket he's wearing.

So somebody said, How the fuck do they recognize that guy on the top of it?

It's like, it's an old man, something.

So he's like, I don't know.

It's his jacket.

He's always wearing the jacket.

I mean, that's a quick fix.

That's pretty good.

It is.

Yeah.

It's pretty, like, it's pretty seamless.

I actually, I have a quick story.

So this guy is in, he's up in electron doing electrical work.

Yeah.

And he's an old man, and they know him to be kind of a boozer.

Right.

But I have a, so I,

um, in like 2012 got asked to do a pilot.

Like a, it wasn't a pilot.

It was like a, what is it where you're sending somebody a thing to get them to want to do the pilot?

Like a sizzle reel or a pilot presentation, maybe.

So I had to go to San Francisco because there was this young kid who had a garage who could, he could make old vintage cars into electric cars.

Okay.

And he had this cool garage.

Young Elon Musk.

Yeah.

And he got in trouble for doing it because he was like 18 when he was doing it and not certified to do any of that shit.

Oh, wow.

And his dad was a Vietnam War vet who had been dishonorably discharged.

Okay.

And he had a long gray ponytail and I fucking loved him.

I don't know.

I can't remember his name.

But the girl who worked in the garage did not want to be on camera.

So they had me come and learn how to solder a couple batteries together to like pretend I worked there.

And

then they like shot me doing stand-up in San Francisco.

But that old guy loved him so much.

I was talking to him.

I'm like, how did you get dishonorably discharged?

And he goes, well, I did a whole lot of LSD

and then I climbed a tree with no shirt on and stayed up there for hours and got like third-degree burns on my back.

I thought there were the tremors were after me.

I almost died of thirst.

The movie wasn't out.

It made sense when I saw the movie.

And then I wrote tremors.

So he just burned the fuck out of his back and then they had to discharge it.

That was wild.

Isn't that crazy?

Yeah.

So yeah, that's kind of what happens to this guy a little bit.

Only he dies.

I think the idea is that he was running from the tremors and he couldn't get down and he died on the thing.

So that starts the mystery.

And then there's a...

Different old man who's taking care of some sheep and he gets sucked down by the tremors.

Wow.

This movie fucking hates old men.

This movie's like, how can we kill as many as they are?

Easy to catch.

Super easy.

And

they're looking for this old guy.

His sheep are all killed and they find like his face sticking out of the ground.

Yeah, that was a great thing.

Not the best practical effect face.

Yeah, there's a lot of like cheese in this movie.

It's all really fun.

But yeah, there are some some shit looks like the tremors look so fucking cool.

That's cool as fuck, but that was.

But there's some just like Halloween masks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All the budget went into the tremors.

Oh, for sure, for sure.

So then we kind of get the third tremor attack where we see a little more of them.

There's this a couple, another old man.

There's a couple and an old woman.

So this scene, it's this couple and and they're like building a house and they're like living out of like their RV while the house gets built.

And, you know, they hear something weird and it kind of leads to the tremor sucking down the old man while the wife watches and then they kind of come after her in the car, which they drag underground.

And this scene, like, I, this scene's terrifying.

Yeah.

This scene is the, it's the best thing in the movie.

It's so fucking scary.

And like this woman who has this one scene, her having to like wordlessly act while the tremors like drag her husband down.

It's such a fucking great performance.

It really, she's amazing in it.

And that's, I think also this scene is when you realize that the tremors are evolving.

Yeah.

Somehow, like,

they're getting smarter.

Yeah.

Because they, like, people could, you know, escape to a car or get to whatever.

And he's like, fuck that.

I'm dragging the whole ass car down to get this sweet meat out of here.

They love that.

It's kind of like when you want to eat like oysters oysters or clay.

You got to shuck.

Yeah.

You got to shuck.

Shucks.

Shuck in a station wagon.

Suck that

out of that station wagon.

So yeah, this scene is really, and it made me feel a little bit better about being so scared of it when I was a kid.

I'm like, some of this movie is scary.

Yes, it is a scary movie.

So yeah, very, very, very like well-made and effective.

So yeah, so Kevin Bacon and Earl, they're kind of like figuring all this stuff out.

They find the truck like Halfbury.

That's kind of a cool effect there seeing just a little bit of the truck popping out of the sand.

And it gets one of their horses and they kind of, they're running away from the trimmer and then it runs smack into this like,

to this like irrigation wall and that kills the first one that they are able to kill.

And Kevin Bacon says, fuck you to the trimmer.

It's one of the greatest line deliveries.

I have it clipped out.

Matt, can we play the fuck you?

It's so good.

Fuck you!

It's great.

Love it when Bacon goes for it.

He can kind of be a little bit of a dull actor sometimes, but when he like goes for it, he's so great.

Anyway, and this fuck you is like one of those great deliveries.

Can I say a kind of a controversial opinion?

Please.

I don't think he's hot.

Oh, interesting.

I get you.

I don't see it either.

I think him as an older man, as he's aged, very handsome.

He's aged wonderfully.

Yes.

Gorgeous.

But him as this young man, I'm like, what am I looking at here?

Yeah.

He's a weird-looking guy.

I don't know.

I think he's a weird-looking guy.

I don't think he's ugly.

I just don't get the

why he was so hot.

Well, I think footloose is what he does.

Oh, footloose.

Sure, sure, sure.

Because you can dance.

He's got that body and he can move.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If you can dance, and people forget that you look kind of weird.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So they...

They kind of figured out what the tremors are.

We're on with the movie.

So them, they all get caught like on a rock.

They figure out the tremor can't get them on the rock.

Can't climb.

Can't climb, yeah.

And Earl says this line that I really liked in this of like, there's more of these things.

And that pisses me off.

Yeah.

I would be pissed off if there were more tremors.

Yeah, this movie has such, yeah, so many great little laughs in it.

Fun little one-liners.

Yeah, and then, so they, like, go to sleep, and then Kevin Bacon

gives a zinc-nosed lady his jackets.

Very cute.

They're falling in love despite her brown hair.

You know what I love about this and what I love about the character, what is his name, Eddie?

The one that like Fred Ward plays.

Earl, yeah.

Earl, yeah, yeah.

What I love about that character is because he clearly

does find this woman attractive and he spends the rest of the movie being like, come on, man.

You should think she's hot too.

I can't get with her because I am not the lead.

You are the one who has to be in love with her.

You are in foot loose.

Yeah, you're in foot loose.

I'm not allowed.

You have to love it.

Well, maybe he wants because he's more age-appropriate.

Which I love too.

And he's like, I'm not interested in this young girl.

I like women.

Yeah.

I like busty, buxom

haggard women with a smoker's voice.

That's definitely.

I'm holding out for the world-class breasts.

But

you, honestly, you're a young man.

Here I am, Earl.

Let's get it on.

Sorry you're dead, though.

But

it's such a great character because I just love watching him.

He spends most of this movie when he's not saying I'm pissed off.

Yeah.

He spends it giving a look to Kevin Bacon going, come on, man,

get in there.

Their friendship, is that what male friendships are?

You just give each other hell forever?

Well, yeah, that was complaining about Star Wars to each other.

Yeah, exactly.

I don't know.

That's not a, no, a moon man.

I do kind of like it because they're like life partners.

Yeah.

They're really cute.

I have a ton of girlfriends that live together and I think we'll be life partners to the end, but they don't have any, it's not a romantic relationship.

It's like these two are like, we got to get out of this town and make something for like ourselves, but they're doing it together.

Yeah.

I love their friendship.

I think it's cute as fuck.

They should start a podcast.

Yeah.

No.

Right.

Just 4,000 episodes.

We watch one tremors movie per episode.

Yeah,

they are very cute.

And yeah,

no one really gets a lot of backstory in this, but like

the chemistry is so great in it that you kind of don't really care.

And it seems like everybody has a story.

Yeah.

They go back to the store.

They're kind of figuring it.

Oh, they like pull Vault away.

That's kind of a cool scene.

They all like use these poles to pull Vault away from the tremors.

I loved that scene.

Me too.

I don't know if I could do it.

Do you think you could do that?

Nope.

No, I don't think so.

But if you had to, because I would try.

Earl kind of failed at it the first time he tried, but then it was like, you got to run and go for it.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I think that we could do it.

No, I wouldn't.

I would die pretty quick in a tremor situation.

Oh, I would too, but I'd definitely start trying to do that pole shit.

Yeah.

I mean, I just think that like I would be scared and I'd also be curious about what it'd be like to be swallowed whole by one.

Might be kind of fun.

I'm going to go out doing what I love.

Get in that.

Coming while eating.

Or getting eating.

Getting eating.

Death by kink in that slimy opening.

I can't wait to go down the slimy opening.

Gulp me tremor, Jerry.

Gulp me graboid.

They figure out the name of the tremors.

They call it the graboids.

That's cool.

And then, you know, we got the tremors.

They're coming for the store.

And both kids are just vibrating the ground like crazy, bouncing their ball,

playing pogo stick.

Hold on.

Yeah, so Michael Gross and Reba are kind of like off doing their own thing in their like apocalypse bunker.

One of the tremors breaks in.

They all just fucking unload guns on it it's so cool they have like all these guns again gun nut in real life scary person gun nut nut movie you're like yeah more guns what weird illegal guns do you have i also

kind of love that he's the skinny kind of dweeby guy yeah that's really into it because that's kind of i don't know many like buff powerful men who love guns sure right yeah it is like little dorks yeah it's little dorks yeah he is pretty dorky um yeah and they they all call the Tremors Mother Humpers.

I'm sure at some point this movie was supposed to be rated R.

Yeah.

And they're like, can we just change fucker to Humper?

And we got it.

I was wondering that while I was watching it, I was like, am I watching a censored version of this?

You might have been.

No, but it was Mother Humpers.

Was that the original line?

I think this movie was PG-13.

Because I think, because I got to see it with Tim Cota.

That's crazy.

They had a fuck you in there.

But the thing is with PG-13.

You can only have one fuck.

Oh, yeah so i guess that was their word i know this because i wrote an episode for gmm yeah about the um the rating system

yeah so yeah and i guess maybe that is part of why kevin bacon just juices that

because he's like it's the one in the movie good one so it's gonna be like a fuck that you will remember always make it come yeah

so good yeah um well yeah we're kind of almost at the final tremor attack So why don't we take a little break and we'll come back for more

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we're back it's free with ads we're gonna talk about the thrilling conclusion of tremors but first I thought we should probably do this because this is our first Kevin Bacon movie on the show yeah it's weird it took us a year to get to a Kevin Bacon movie

considering how many movies this guy has been in so many in fact that there is a game associated with him, six degrees of Kevin Bacon, where the idea is you can get to any actor via Kevin Bacon in six moves.

So, we, as I mentioned, we're all, you know, kind of adjacent to the entertainment industry.

We've all been in things.

Yeah.

Can we six degrees of Kevin Bacon ourselves?

I've worked out mine.

Do you guys want to hear it?

Yes.

I would love to.

Okay, Kevin Bacon is in X-Men First Class with Jennifer Lawrence.

Jennifer Lawrence is in Mother with Michelle Pfeiffer.

Michelle Pfeiffer is in What Lies Beneath with Harrison Ford.

Yes.

Harrison Ford is in Captain America, Brave New World with Anthony Mackey.

Anthony Mackey is in the Twisted Metal TV show with Thomas Hayden Church.

Thomas Hayden Church is in the movie All About Steve, starring Jordan Morris.

By starring, I mean has five lines in.

I only have a couple of degrees.

Wow.

Uh-huh.

Look at you.

Okay.

Kevin Bacon is in Tremors with Reba McIntyre.

Reba McIntyre, the fiddle player for the Steel Drivers, was Reba McIntyre's fiddle player.

Okay.

Her name is Tammy Rogers.

Amazing, amazing fiddle player.

Tammy Rogers is in The Steel Drivers with my father.

Okay.

And my father made me.

Okay.

So

there we go.

So you don't need to use movies.

You can just use the family members.

I think that still counts.

I think it counts.

Am I Nepo Baby now?

I mean, in my book.

How many degrees was that?

It was my dad, Tammy Rogers.

It was less than six.

Kariba.

And yeah, no, that's four.

That's really good.

Thanks.

I'm trying to think if,

let's see, Kevin Bacon was in.

Let's pick a movie here.

River Wild.

I don't know.

Here's my problem with Kevin.

This game has always perplexed me because I have seen very few Kevin Bacon movies.

I always thought, I was like, why aren't we doing this with Bruce Willis?

Bruce Willis has been in everything.

I was always confused why this had to be Bruce Willis.

But he was in like one very specific type of movie.

I feel like Kevin Bacon is kind of danced around genres in a way that he meets lots of people.

Okay, all right, okay.

He's in Animal House.

Let me see if

I can work this through.

Kevin Bacon

was in

Hollow Man.

Yeah.

Yes.

With who's in that

it's been a while since i've seen hollow man all right what other movies he's has he been in that i know

matt can you work backwards from yourself elizabeth shoe also in hollow man elizabeth shoe oh yeah elizabeth shu okay um what what what is your what is your credit where you're in it with like the most

uh the the biggest thing i have ever done is uh a uh internal corporate video with actor uh terry cruise

okay well that should be fucking Terry Cruz is all over.

Okay, it feels like it should work, but I have to know Kevin Bacon movies in order to do this game.

Okay, Terry Cruz will definitely be in something

that connects to this.

All right.

Terry Cruz was in Idiocracy

with Luke Wilson.

Luke Wilson, who was in Bottle Rocket with Owen Wilson.

Right.

Who was in,

let's say, one of them Wes Anderson movies with their third.

Rocket, also a Wes Anderson movie, but yeah, sure.

That's probably another one.

Yeah.

Oh,

Royal Tenenbaums.

Royal Tenenbaums with Gene Hackman.

Right.

I think we're getting, are we getting closer or further away from the movie?

We're getting close.

You can get to Hackman.

Gene Hackman was in,

let's say,

Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder.

Gene Wilder

was in the producers with Zero Mustel.

I think we've gone more than that.

Zero Mustel.

Listen, okay, I think we can figure out Matt's six degrees of kevin bacon yeah i think we can um let's finish up our summary of tremors

we'll get there by the end you'll get it not a lot else happens in this movie they're running around they jump in a tractor uh someone calls them underground goddamn monsters that's pretty funny um and then they blow one up with a pipe bomb gunk goes everywhere great gunk in this movie bright orange the gunk it kind of looks like the inside of a calzone oh

yeah you may be a little hungry sure no this is another delicious looking monster.

Because you keep say bacon.

I'm like, bacon.

Like, every time it's bacon.

Bacon.

Calzone, bacon.

Bacon, calzone.

That might be good.

Oh, I bet it would.

So, yeah, so it's the last one's chasing them.

They run out of pipe bombs.

And then Kevin Bacon kind of like gets so close to a cliff, and then he jumps out of the way at the right minute, and the monster just fucking splats on the rocks.

These monsters look great, by the way.

There's these like practical worms, and they have all these little worms in their.

Well, the cool thing about it is you are not introduced to the full

head

of the beast.

You keep seeing the little snakey worms that come out that all have their own little individual heads.

So you feel like those are just, oh, those are just baby worms.

And then when, you know, Kevin Bacon and Earl like kill it for the first time, they break away the dirt to reveal the huge like

beetle-like head, like a rhino beetle.

Yeah, yeah, it's got a big beak.

So it's like it keeps going, and then it's like, oh, it's a chunky dick.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

It's a chunky ass dick.

I love a chunky dick filled with calzone meat.

Yeah.

So it splats, it splats on the rocks.

And I'll say, I wrote this in my notes.

Oddly satisfying.

Yeah.

Like, you know, like some people have, you know, those TikTok videos of a hydraulic press squashing a beauty baby.

I have the tremors worm splatting on the rocks.

Just looks cool.

Nice to watch.

So yeah, that happens.

Kevin Bacon kisses the geology woman.

And that's the end of Tremors.

Amazing.

Fucking lean and mean.

We don't learn shit about anybody.

Who cares?

It's great.

I don't need to know.

No, you don't.

Yeah, that's Tremors.

We'll talk about what we thought about it, but first, hey, it's time for Hunk Watch.

It's Hunk Watch.

For me, it's Kevin Bacon.

I just assumed that was this weird, like, well, yeah, it's Kevin Bacon.

Let's move on.

Emily, do you have other thoughts on the hunk of this movie?

Earl.

You're an Earl woman.

100%.

Sure.

That's a man right there.

I don't know.

He's a hunk.

He's a total hunk.

He is a hunk.

Now, he did die in 2022.

That's who I think of.

I think that's who you were thinking of.

So I think he is in the sequel.

I think he is in Tremors 2.

And I think there's a plot line where he, like, became famous for killing the Graboid and then lost all his money on an emu farm.

Anyway,

I remember very few things about the sequel.

Anyway, but I can't wait to watch it.

Yeah, Earl's a hunk.

matt do you have a hunk opinion i mean i i think that i have the same opinion i thought it he is just so fun to look at that actor he was just like you he's another one of those guys who you know from a bunch of things yeah and watching him in this movie next to kevin bacon i almost feel like it made him even hotter yep because there's just something about him you're just like god this guy's just naturally a beautiful man yeah uh truly hunky And if I had to pick a second one, Reba.

Reba Maria.

Hell yeah.

Reba is

so beautiful in this movie.

Just the little, like, she has such a perfect nose.

Like, I think she's this kind of sprightly, like, fairy kind of look to her.

But, you know, it's fun.

It's like, okay, so she was like, you know, shoot him up with a bunch of guns.

She played Annie, get your gun on Broadway.

Oh, did she?

Okay.

And, you know,

she's fabulous.

We love her.

I hope her.

I don't know about her politics because she doesn't really talk about them.

But

for what I know about them, she seems good.

Matt, I think I can do your Kevin Bacon in two.

Oh, wow.

So you were in a Salesforce interview.

Salesforce internal video.

It was Terry Cruz, who did a voice on American Dad, a show where Kevin Bacon played himself.

Okay.

All right.

Well, that's simple.

So, yeah, we could maybe, you know, sometimes it's fun to try and do it in six.

You kind of weave your way around.

But there you go.

There's your Kevin Bacon.

Wait, hold on.

I think I can do it.

I can do it.

Okay.

Okay.

So Kevin Bacon was in Mystic River

with

Sean Penn.

Sean Penn.

And Sean Penn was in Carlito's Way with Al Pacino.

Okay.

Yes.

Al Pacino was in Serpico.

Have you guys seen that?

What game were we playing?

Are you just making up?

Just saying movies you like?

Yeah, those are just good movies.

Serpico, is that like, is that a gas station?

Yeah, it's a gas station.

Okay.

That's what it's about.

It's about a gas station.

Yeah, no, I have nothing.

All right.

Well, hey,

we'll listen.

We'll keep,

we'll off mic, we'll dive into Matt's connections.

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please, yes.

Please figure this out for me and make it long.

And no TV shows.

Nothing where someone can be a guest star.

Really, get me a real one.

Yeah, really get in there.

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Emily, I think you're, I love this movie.

I think you're the biggest super fan here.

So maybe we'll let you have the last word.

Matt, you, you hadn't seen this before.

What did you think of Tremors?

I thought it was excellent.

It was, you know, there are certain movies where when they are assigned, I a little bit kind of go, oh, all right.

It's a job.

Sure.

It's just, right, like the Flintstones garbage disposal.

Exactly.

You're a pelican saying it's a living.

It's a living.

But then as soon as it started, I was like, oh yeah, I love movies.

Yeah, movies are great.

And this is a very movie movie.

i have to sound like uh yeah was that harry styles yeah yeah this is like a movie that you see in a thesis like a movie popcorn yeah but like for real though i as soon as it started i was like oh yeah i love this so i'm gonna give it a seven i think it was great all right uh yeah i i like this movie a lot too i'm gonna give it an eight i feel like when i was watching it this time i had a couple moments of like

Well, we're just getting away from the tremors again, huh?

Okay, we got away from them and we're getting away again.

And maybe a little variety would be nice.

And, you know, I do complain on this podcast sometimes about how, like, in modern movies, they're kind of obsessed with backstory and kind of like explaining things in like ways that aren't that fun.

I do want to know a little bit more about people sometimes just because they're all great.

And all the little relationships are so neat.

And I feel like I did, I'm like,

I could have a little bit more of just everybody's, you know, everybody's shit.

It would have been fun.

But, I mean, the movie's a fucking blast.

Great practical stuff.

Lean and mean.

Great monster movie.

I'm going to give it an eight.

Nice.

I love this movie.

I like that, you know, you said the thing about too much backstory.

People do too much backstory.

This movie did the opposite where you you learned about the beasts as they learned to prey upon people.

Yeah.

Because the beast was changing.

The tremors were changing over time.

So new things that the tremors were doing were things that the trimmers didn't even know they could do.

They were figuring out how to kill people while people were trying to like figure out how to kill them.

So it was a really cool cat and mouse of adapting towards each other, which was fun.

So it wasn't like we know the rules of these monsters from the beginning where, oh, yeah, there's a queen if you kill the queen or they hate salt.

If they make this movie now, like a general or like a hacker would explain this to you.

Yeah, there would be too much lore that would get in the way of progress in terms of story.

So I liked that

this creature just kept evolving, which I'm assuming the sequels happens again because I've seen these ones with like legs and shit.

Yeah.

And it seems like these, the biggest strength that the Trimmers have is the fact that they evolve so much and so quickly, which that's the coolest feature I think of these creatures.

I love anything with new, interesting, original monsters.

I don't feel like we get a lot of American monster movies with new creatures.

And I like that we didn't fuck around with too much relationship shit.

Yeah, I agree with you.

We could have done a little more, but I thought the Kevin Bacon and Earl's relationship was so fun.

They're great.

That I had so much fun with them that I knew who they were to each other, and that's all that mattered to me.

I'm going to give this an 8.5.

Hell yeah.

I like this movie a lot.

I think it moved fast.

Yes, there was a little bit of, all right, we're getting away from the tremors again.

Yeah, but it was still a joyful

fun

movie, and it's also just about, it's about friendship.

There you go.

Friendship

conquers all.

There's no worm that can devour friendship.

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That's right.

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Whoa.

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Love the Ice House.

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Yeah.

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Ooh.

It's just me.

No one else.

I know.

Finally.

Fuck everyone.

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