Kicking & Streaming
Do you and your friends speak in movie quotes? Do you trade Spongebob memes back and forth with your loved ones? Do you have to rely on the ”Are You Still Watching?” message to let you know it’s time to bathe and stop procrastinating? If you answered yes to any (or all) of these questions, come hang out with us every other week!
Media can play a huge role in shaping who we are. Sometimes it makes us idolize Jeff Goldblum as a sex symbol. Sometimes a lack of representation makes you feel invisible. As hosts, siblings Carie and Ross will analyze this phenomenon by breaking down a favorite movie or television show and how the sights, sounds, and messages of media have followed our generation throughout our lives. So pour your favorite beverage, relax, and explore how our shared experiences with movies and television messed us up as a generation. There will be laughter, there will be sadness, and THERE WILL BE discussions about homosexual subtext in children’s animation.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 327
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Evita or: How I Learned Movie Musicals Can Be Boring
Don't cry for us, lil onions! We promise it's not gonna be a two-hour episode this time! Today is part musical, part Ross' History Corner as we break down the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's…
V for Vendetta or: How I Learned Governments Should Be Afraid of Their People
It's a long one....maybe the longest we've ever had. But it's important. Today the siblings are unpacking Alan Moore's dense and almost impossible-to-adapt, V For Vendetta (2005). While the source ma…
Beetlejuice or: How I Learned to Haunt Ethically
It's big core this week, lil onions. We are ending Spookaween right with Beetlejuice (1988), a hilariously dark and campy film about a bioexorcist who helps a recently deceased couple expel the livin…
The Conjuring or: How James Wan Did Amityville Horror
There's no ifs ands or buts about it this week, lil onions. James Wan just really wanted to do the Amityville Horror and didn't care very much if it would be clocked by viewers like you. But more imp…
The Descent or: How I Learned Spelunking is Dumb
Claustrophobics need not apply this week, lil onions! We're breaking down one of Carie's all-time favorite horror films, The Descent (2005). We follow the journey of a group of female spelunkers as t…
The Silence of the Lambs or: How I Learned the FBI Benefits from Women
Better late than never, right lil onions? This week, we're breaking down Johnathan Demme's thriller classic, The Silence of the Lambs (1991). We follow junior FBI agent in training, Clarice Starling,…
Saltburn or: How I Came to Fear Barry Keoghan
This is a long one, lil onions, but we could just not do a two-parter. We cannot be prolonging this!!! Because this week, we are unpacking Emerald Fennel's extremely disturbing, one of a kind thrille…
Black Swan or: How I Learned Natalie Portman Could Dance Ballet
Ross' barn door is off its hinges this week as we break down one of his top ten favorite films, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010). Black Swan follows the journey of Nina Sayers who has lofty aspir…
Flightplan or: The First Time Ross Was Gaslit by a Film
Continuing with our theme of thrillers for Ross' birthday month, we cover one of his favorites, Flightplan (2005), the movie about how it is in fact possible to lose your child on an airplane. Jodie …
Knowing or: How I Learned to Prophesize the End of the World
What do you get when you combine Nicholas Cage, solar flares, and a meticulous tabulation of every major disaster over the past 50 years? Alex Proyas' Knowing (2009). What starts off as an interestin…
The West Wing Pilot or: How I Fell in Love with Political Dramas [REBROADCAST]
HI LIL ONIONS! No new episode this week, but we are rerunning an old episode on the pilot of Aaron Sorkin and NBC's The West Wing ahead of our PATREON coverage of the multiple sclerosis scandal arc o…
Aladdin or: How I Learned to Beeeeee Myself
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This week, Carie is offending Ross' OCD by choosing a Disney film, Aladdin (1992) despite previous intentions of grouping them together. Carie …
What Dreams May Come or: How I Learned to Navigate the Afterlife
WHO'S READY TO SOB? Seriously, like more than once. This week, in a very trigger-heavy episode, the siblings unpack one of Robin Williams' more devastating films, What Dreams May Come (1998). Carie p…
Bicentennial Man or: How I Learned Ross Wouldn't Give "Robots" Rights
Celebrate the life and career of the late Robin Williams with us today on a day of remembrance following the date of his death on August 11, 2014. We're talking about Bicentennial Man (1999), the tur…
Patch Adams or: How I Fell in Love with Pablo Neruda
It's all Robin Williams all the time this August! The siblings kicking off Carie's birthday month with a film about a charmingly funny and outrageously sad tale of a medical student whose treatment …
Zero Dark Thirty or: How I Learned How to Catch UBM
Ho-boy, major TRIGGER WARNING this week, lil onions. A lot of this is far from palatable. This week, we close out our theme of war-adjacent films with the political action thriller, Zero Dark Thirty …
War Games or: How to Win at Tic-Tac-Toe
The technology nostalgia is aging us today, lil Onions. This week, we go down another rabbit hole of information technology and artificial intelligence in the suprisingly dated film, War Games (1983)…
Elizabeth the Golden Age or: The Extremely Disappointing Sequel
This week, the siblings are disenchanted with the sequel to a much beloved film, Elizabeth (1998), Elizabeth: the Golden Age (2007). Not only does Sir Walter Raleigh leave much to be desired in Eliza…
Olympus Has Fallen or: How I Learned to Trust(?) Gerard Butler
Ross is kicking off his war-related film theme this week with Olympus Has Fallen (2013) in which he bends over backwards to pay compliment to Angela Bassett and her solitary competency with running t…
Moulin Rouge or: How I Learned the Difference Between Baz and Bad Lurhman
This week, the siblings finish off #JukeboxJune with one of Carie's sentimental favorites, Baz Lurhman's Moulin Rouge (2001). The siblings dive into the tale of burgeoning love in bohemian Paris at t…