Free With Ads - Tremors

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

Free With Ads is officially 1 year old! And to celebrate this milestone, we decided to watch a movie we have referenced many times on the pod, the 1990 monster movie Tremors, starring Kevin Bacon.Tune in next week when our movie will be... Nosferatu (1922) Become a MaxFun member and listen to our new bonus episode about the pilot to Pee-Wee's Playhouse.Matt Lieb and his wife will be doing comedy at the Ice House in Pasadena on Wednesday February 19th, at 7:30pm!Also Matt and Francesca will be at the Sacramento Punch Line on March 16th! Buy tickets now!Jordan has a story in an issue of Marvel Comics Spiderman, it's called Web Of Spiderverse which comes out on March 5th and you can pre-order it RIGHT HERE! So do it!Also, Jordan contributed to Godzilla vs LA, a comic book anthology which comes out April 30th and all the proceeds will go to those affected by the LA fires. If you can't figure out how to get the comics, Jordan is offering tech support. Email us [e-mail] for Jordan to help you!Jordan will be at Arsenal Comics on March 5th signing comics, then March 9th Golden Apple Comics in Hollywood, and March 15th at Cape and Cowl Comics in Oakland.Finally, PLEASE BUY OUR MERCH HERE!

This is Free With Ads, the podcast that asked the question, why pay a buck 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. Ooh. Broke into the wrong goddamn wreck room, didn't you, you bastard? is Warp Guts. With us always is super producer Matt hitting us with those subterranean drops. Ooh. Broke into the wrong goddamn rec room, didn't you, you bastard? Ha ha ha ha ha!

Fits perfectly. Ha ha ha ha ha! Hell yes. Love that guy. Before we get into this movie, which is as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we wanna talk about something else we saw for free

on the internet this week. Other free stuff. There it is. Woo! This is something I saw for free on the internet this week. Other free stuff. There it is. Woo! This is something I saw for free on Matt Lieb's Instagram. What? 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. Okay. 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 $1,000. 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? It's true. When did this happen? This was, I don't know, a week ago. Matt!

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 bragged about that a lot about 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 started. So they don't talk to you about...

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. 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 wanna talk about our stadium, you gotta pay me. No, but. Yeah. Hey, if you want to talk about our stadium, you've got to pay me. No, but it's me, the stadium. So I all of a sudden started getting messages. I started getting DMs and people tweeting at me and stuff.

And I just 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. And so the category was TV rewatch podcasts. Exactly. Oh, wow. 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. You are. Yeah, cause the rest of them, they already got money. Yeah, it's true. There is, and I won't name names about the ones that do it,

but like, it's- 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 western...

She's in love with Jim and they have this whole thing where. No, Pam from True Blood. Right. But no. But she's engaged to Roy. Oh God, here we go. And when Kevin has spilled that chili. I look so funny.

I have a t-shirt from that, I got it. I get it. Target, the office. That's my personality. I get it, I get it, I'll stop talking about it. No, no, no, no, I wanna hear it. No, no, all I'm saying is, yeah, it's happened. It's kinda 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.

A hard percent. You are making this right now because your episode is playing on Comedy Central five times this month. In a row. Yeah, 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 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 do your thing, whatever. Yeah, listen, if you wanna 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 sockies, 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, Matt. Is that like, this is one of those things that your parents were probably stoked about, 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 it was amazing it was the first time that I think They can they actually have a piece of media they can show right other parents and be like See my son did something with his life, and you know, so that's nice. Isn't that nice? I think this is maybe something we all kind of deal with

a little bit, working in on, let's say, the fringes of the entertainment industry. Sure, sure. We're near it. Yeah, we are. Yeah, if we squint and stand on a ladder, we can see the entertainment industry. Yes, yes.

Those of you listening at home who think this, what you're hearing is a product of the entertainment industry, uh, lol. 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. I am. It's true. I've worn these socks three days. Hell yeah. They're getting nice and juicy for the daddy's and the mommy's. Array.com. And the baby's. Five socks, glug, glug, glug. Got drinking in.

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 it's just like, well, I guess nothing happens after that. Yeah. You peaked. Congratulations.

Yeah. I think I can die now? Gonna be like Al Bundy winning the trophy at Popeye. I think Free With Ads will get there, okay guys? Oh, I hope so. We're gonna get there. Oh yeah, I'd love to be a Jeopardy question. Geez, call us. Call us, Ken Jennings.

Well hey, that was other free stuff. And now it's time to talk about Tremors. Yes! 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-iverse. Yes! 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. Perfect. 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 selling a lot of its cable channels that are underneath it, and Sci-Fi Channel is one of them. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm nervous. I love Sci-Fi Channel as a kid. I thought you were thinking of buying it.

What? Yeah, I bet. Oh, trying to get some money together. Listen, I can't wear enough socks in these boots to, you know. Maximumfun.org slash join. Yes. Help us buy the 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 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. Oh! 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. 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. It might be like a Godzilla type thing. 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. like a Godzilla type thing. The Tremors in Godzilla might be related. They could be, yeah, yeah. They don't really explain it, at least in this one. And I like that. Which I love. Me too, I like how 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 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 11, dog. Michael Gross, is there 11?

Oh my God. Yes, Jesus. There's like time travel. Michael Gross, I think, is in all of them. And that's the only original cast member. Fucking God bless him, by the way. Who does he play in this? The Gun Nut, Reba's husband.

He did pass away not too long ago. Oh, did he? Oh my gosh. All right, I'll fuck him right out. 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, California. I think Michael Kroos is still alive. What? I think he was gonna be at Pasadena Comic Con. No. When I was gonna be be there and then they canceled it. Well that makes me so happy, it is. Cause he's from all in the family, no not all in the family.

What was the TV show? Family Ties. Family Ties. He was the dad in Family Ties I believe. Well if he's still alive. I thought he died. I already poured one out for him, I'm gonna go Zamboni it up.

Michael Gross, Okay, yeah. He, oh good, he is alive. Thank fucking Christ. We could crank out a couple more Tremors movies. Like 2020s Tremors, Shrieker Island. 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 tremors, like the, you know. The puppets. The practical effects ones. And 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. Yes. 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 blast. No more Vegas for me. I'm going to Joshua Tree. Oh yeah, I love Joshua Tree. I'm done with Vegas. I wanna go to the desert and trip balls and like rediscover myself.

I don't know. Have sex under the cover of a... Have sex. Have sex and have sex. That's it, just have sex. Whoa, cool. You do that in the desert, it's legal? Yeah, near a boulder.. Have sex. That's it. Whoa, cool. You do that in the desert, it's legal? Yeah, near a boulder.

I've done that. 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 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 running the thing. It was like an indoor-outdoor structure. 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, Army Navy surplus stores.

And, but the snakes were freaking me out. And she goes, it ain't snake season. I'm like, how do you know? and she goes, it ain't snake season. 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 a ton of jackrabbits, which I love jackrabbits. Oh, there's jackrabbits, too. Anytime I see one, I'm 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 petitioned very hard to be invited to Blobfest. Yes, 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 birds.

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 because we were ignored by Blobfest, Tremorsfest, you can swoosh in, become our favorite

local monster festival. Yes. Free with ads at MaximumFun.org, let us know. We're cheap. Matt, we're very cheap. We'd do it just to pet a little kangaroo rat. Hell yeah. That's true.

Matt, have you seen Tremors before this? This was my first time seeing Tremors. Really? Yeah, I knew of Tremors. Of course. I mean, Tremors is one of those things. You see a commercial for like part seven on sci-fi or whatever, 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. 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. Thank you. Just give me the worms. Yeah, there ain't no religion. There's no religion in tremors. There's no Iraqis or Duncan Idaho. The only religion is guns in America.

That's it. Hell yeah. It's funny, it actually is just like, it feels like a spin-off. It's all Duncan Idahos and it's all sand worms, 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 in this too. She looks amazing. Little freckles on her face. 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 lived through the Graboids were shitting on Nancy Pelosi's desk. It's unfortunate because it was,

this was at a time when, remember when conspiracy theories and theorists were fun. Right? It was all Bigfoot and aliens. Yeah, we were 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 tremors origin story on this podcast. I'll recap it really quick. I saw it in theaters with Tim Cota and his mom and I got too scared and I asked to leave and we went 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 and I'm like, oh, this is a funny movie. And I, anyway, but I have revisited it since

and totally love it. And I've seen one of the sequels. No, it scared the shit out of me when I was young, too. Anything about being sucked underground. And 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 had seen it as a kid. Because I mean, I saw in that condo, and I had weird feelings about that. A lot of openings, a lot of... A lot of getting sucked.

A lot of, sure. Well, John Voight getting 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. Somebody's in devour. I'm in devour.

But, you know, yeah, so I'm kinda 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 handymen and that's all we learn about them ever. No, this fucking lean movie, get to the Tremors.

And you know, 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 I want world-class breasts. Mine could wrap around the world I want I wanted to choke out the world. I want boobs that are in equator. Yeah. I want titties in all time zones. I got titties in different area of goes. Exactly.

And he also says, and legs that go all the way up, which is something I've always been like, what does it mean? I know. That's like always something that like horny guys say in movies, but it's like, anyway. Is that like cankles, but for for legs like your crotch is too low? What do are their legs that just stop? Yeah, stop in the middle somewhere. Never mind. I'm going back So the girl the girl turns out to be Rhonda and Kevin Bacon sees her and he's like, oh gross cuz she has

brown hair. Blah, brown hair. She's got sunscreen on her nose. She's got zinc on her nose. What an idiot. Blah, gross. 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, do you think Pepsi had a sponsorship? If they didn't, then fucking they just got a bunch of free advertising because a lot

of Pepsi. I will say Pepsi always has the best advertising. They do. And Coke is just like, found in it the fucking. Yeah, Coke doesn't need it. Pepsi's like. I'm gonna train myself to like Pepsi from now on. Yeah, yeah.

I think. It's gonna take a lot of gumption. Cause 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 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 a, it's like, it's 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 seamless. I mean, that's a quick fix. That's pretty good. It is, yeah. It's pretty seamless. I actually, I have a quick story. So this guy is in, he's up doing electrical work.

And he's an old man, and they know him to be kind of a boozer. Right. But I have a, so I, in like 2012, got asked to do a pilot. Like, it wasn't a pilot, it was like a, what is it where you're sending somebody a thing to get them to wanna do the pilot?

A sizzler. Like a sizzler reel or a pilot presentation. 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 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 pretend I worked there.

And then they shot me doing stand-up in San Francisco. But that old guy loved him so much, I was talking to him, 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 was like, holy fuck. 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 thirst over here. 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 him. Wild. Isn't that crazy?

Anyway, fun story. 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. This movie fucking hates old men. This movie's like, how come 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 shot. Not the best practical effect face. Yeah, there's a lot of cheese in this movie. It's all really fun, but yeah, there are some, some shit looks, like the Tremors look so fucking cool. They look cool as fuck, but that one. But there's some just like Halloween masks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All the budget went into the Tremors, though, sure. Oh, for sure, for sure. So let me kinda get the third Tremor attack where we see a little more of them. There's this couple, another old man. There's a couple and an old woman. Oh, I hated this scene. So this scene, it's this couple

and they're like building a house and they're like living out of their RV while the house gets built. And 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. 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 the scene is when you realize that the Tremors are evolving somehow. They're getting smarter. Because they, like people could 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 meat. It's kind of like when you want to eat like oysters or clam, you gotta shuck. Yeah, you gotta shuck and suck that meat. You shuck that lady 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 half buried. 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're running away from the tremor, and then it runs smack into this irrigation wall, and that kills the first one that they are able to kill. And Kevin Bacon says, fuck you to the tremor. It's one of the greatest line deliveries. I have it clipped out. Matt, can we play the fuck you? 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 it kind of a controversial opinion? Please. I don't think he's hot. Oh, interesting. I get you. Huh. I took, I don't see it either. Huh.

I think him as an older man, as he's aged, very handsome. He's aged wonderful. Yes. Gorgeous. But him as this young man, I'm like, what am I looking at here? Yeah, he's a weird looking guy. OK.

I don't know. I think he's a weird looking guy too. I don't think he's a weird looking guy. Okay. I don't know. I think he's a weird looking guy too. I don't think he's ugly, I just don't get the, you know. Why he was so hot at the time. Well I think Footloose is what did it. Oh, sure, sure, sure. Cause you can dance.

He's got that bod and he can move. Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you can dance and people forget that you look kinda weird. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So they kind of figured out what the Tremors are, were on with the movie. So they all get caught 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 jacket. It's very cute, they're falling in love despite her brown hair.

Blah, blah, blah. You know what I love about this 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. 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 footloose. Yeah, you're in footloose, I'm not allowed, you have to love her. Well maybe he, 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 bucks of haggard women with a smoker's voice. That's definitely me. I'm holding out for the world class breasts. But you, you're a young man. Here I am, Earl. Yeah. 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 Baker 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 works for sure. No, it's complaining about Star Wars to each other. Yeah, exactly. No, that's not about male friendships. I do kind of like it because they're like life partners in a way. They're really cute.

I have a ton of girlfriends that live together and I think will 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 ourselves, but they're't have any, it's not a romantic relationship. It's like these two are like, we gotta get out of this town and make something for ourselves, but they're doing it together. I love their friendship. I think it's cute as fuck.

It's great. They should start a podcast. Yeah. No! Right. Just 4,000 episodes. We watch one Tremors movie per episode. Yeah.

Yeah, they are very cute. And yeah, no one really gets a lot of backstory in this, but 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 out. Oh, they like pole vault away.

That's kind of a cool scene. They all use these poles to pole vault away from the tremors. Oh, 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, cause I would try. Earl like kind of failed at it the first time he tried, but then it was like, you gotta run and go for it. Yeah. I don't know. I think that we could do it.

Nah, I wouldn't. I would die pretty quick in a tremor situation. Oh, I would too, but I 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 just not gonna go out doing what I love. Coming while eating. Or getting eaten. Death by kink. In that slimy opening. I can't wait to go down the slimy opening. Gulp me, Tremor Daddy.

Gulp me, Graboid. They figure out the name of the tremors, they call it the grab-oids, and it's cool. And then we got the tremors, they're coming for the store. Both kids are just vibrating the crowd 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 movie, you're like, yeah, more guns! What weird illegal guns do you have? I hope there's more.

I also kind of love that he's the skinny, kind of dweeby guy that's really into it, because that's kind of, I don't know many buff, powerful men who love guns. Sure, right. Yeah, it is like little dorks. Yeah, it's little dorks. Yeah, he is pretty dorky. Yeah, and they all call the Tremors mother humpers.

I'm sure at some point this movie was supposed to be rated R, and they're like, can we just change Fucker to Humper when we got it? Yeah, 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, I guess that was their one fuck. I know this because I wrote an episode for GMM

about the rating system. Oh. Yeah. So yeah, and I guess maybe that is part of why Kevin Bacon just juices that fuck. Because he's like, it's the one in the movie. It's a good one too. So it's gonna be like a fuck that you will remember always.

Make it count. Yeah. Fuck you. So good. 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? We're back, it's Free With Eds, 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. 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 kind of adjacent to the entertainment industry.

We've all been in things. 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. Yeah, please, go ahead. 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. Harrison Ford is in Captain America, Brave New World with Anthony Mackie. Anthony Mackie 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. Look at you. OK. Kevin Bacon is in Tremors with Reba McIntire. Reba McIntire, the fiddle player for the Steel Drivers was Reba McIntire's fiddle player. Her name is Tammy Rogers, amazing, amazing fiddle player.

Tammy Rogers is in the Steel Drivers with my father and my father made me. Okay, so you don't need to use movies, you can just use 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. Reba, and yeah, no, that was 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 Kevin Bacon.

But he was in like one very specific type of movie. I feel like Kevin Bacon has 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.

Yes. With... Who's in that? It's been a while since I've seen Hollow Man. All right, what other movies has he been in that I know? Matt, can you work backwards from yourself? Elizabeth Shue also in Hollow Man. Elizabeth Shue. Oh, yeah, Elizabeth Shue. What other movies has he been in that I know? Matt, can you work backwards from yourself? Elizabeth Shue also in Hollow Man, Elizabeth Shue. Oh yeah, Elizabeth Shue.

What is your credit where you're in it with the most... The biggest thing I have ever done is an internal corporate video with actor Terry Crews. Okay, well that's your fucking Terry Crews. Okay, well that's fucking Terry Crews is all over the place. It feels like it should work, but I have to know Kevin Bacon movies in order to do this game. Okay, Terry Crews will definitely be in something

that connects to this. All right, Terry Crews was in Idiocracy with Luke Wilson, who was in Bottle Rocket with Owen Wilson, who was in, let's say, one of them Wes Anderson movies with their third brother. Bottle Rocket, also a Wes Anderson movie, but yeah, sure. Probably another one, yeah. Oh, Owen Wilson.

Royal Tenenbaums. Royal Tenenbaums with Gene Hackman. Right. I think we're getting, are we getting closer or further away from Kevin Bacon? We're getting close, you can get to Hackman. Gene Hackman was in, let's say, Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder. Mm-hmm. Gene Wilder was in, the producers was Zero Mustel.

I think we've gone more than six. Zero Mustel. Listen, okay, I think we can figure out Matt's six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Yeah, I think we can. Let's finish up our summary of tremors. I'll get there by the end. You'll get it, but there's not a lot else

that happens in this movie. They're running around, they jump in a tractor, someone calls them underground goddamn monsters, that's pretty funny. And then they blow one up with a pipe bomb, gunk goes everywhere, great gunk in this movie. Bright orange. The gunk. It kinda looks like the up with a pipe bomb. Gunk goes everywhere. Great gunk in this movie. Sprite orange. The gunk.

It kind of looks like the inside of a calzone. Oh, yummy. Yummy, yeah. It made me a little hungry. Sure, no, this is another delicious looking monster. Because you keep saying bacon, I'm like bacon. Like every time I. Bacon, calzone bacon.

Ooh, bacon calzone, that might be good. Oh, I bet it would. So yeah, so the last one's chasing them, they run out of pipe bombs, and then Kevin Bacon kinda 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 practical worms, they have all these little worms in their mouth. 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 Kevin Bacon and Earl kill it for the first time, they break away the dirt

to reveal the huge beetle-like head, like a rhino beetle-type head. 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. Yeah. It's a chunky-ass dick. I love a good chunky dick filled with calzone meat.

Yeah, so it splats on the rocks, and I wrote this in my notes, oddly satisfying. Like, you know, some people have, you know, those TikTok videos of a hydraulic press squashing a 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. Wow. Fucking lean and mean. Amazing. Wow, wow, wow. 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? It's Earl. You know what? You're an Earl woman. A hundred percent. 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 I thought it was. 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. I can't wait to watch it. Yeah, Earl's a hunk. Matt, do you have a hunk opinion? I mean, I think that I have the sequel anyway. But, yeah. I can't wait to watch it. Yeah, Earl's a hunk. Matt, do you have a hunk opinion? I mean, I think that I have the same opinion. I thought he is just so fun to look at. That actor, he was just like, he's another one of those guys who you know from a bunch of things.

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. And watching him in this movie next to Kevin Bacon, I almost feel like it made him even hotter. Because there's just something about him, you're just like, God, this guy's just naturally a beautiful man. Yeah. Truly hunky.

And if I had to pick a second one, Reba. Reba McIntyre. Hell yeah. Reba looks amazing in this. Reba is so beautiful in this movie. Just the little, she has such a perfect nose. I think she's this kind of 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 what's fun is like, okay, so she was like, you know, shoot him up with a bunch of guns. She played Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway for a while. Oh, did she? Okay. And you know, she's fabulous. We love her. I hope her, I don't know about her politics, cause she doesn't really talk about him, but. Yeah, that him, but for what I know about him, she seems good. That's fine.

Matt, I think I can do your Kevin Bacon in two. Oh, wow. So you were in a Salesforce corporate internal video. With Terry Crews, who did a voice on American Dad, a show where Kevin Bacon played himself. Okay, all right, well that's simple. So yeah, sometimes it's fun to try and do it in six, you 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. Right. Right.

There you go. There's your Kevin. Wait, hold on. I think I can do it. I can do it. OK. OK. So Kevin Bacon. Right. Was in Mystic River with what's with 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? No. What game are we playing? Are you just making up shit? Are you just saying movies you like? Yeah, those are just good movies, man. Serpico, is that like, is that a gas station? Yeah, it's a gas station movie.

That's what it's about, it's about a gas station? Yeah, it's a gas station movie. That's what it's about. It's about a gas station. Yeah, no, I have nothing. All right, well, listen, we'll keep, we'll off mic, we'll dive into Matt's connections to Kevin Bacon. If anyone wants to create like a huge board with red yarn.

Oh please, yes. Please figure this out for me and make it long. And no TV shows. Nothing where someone can be a guest star. With red yarn. Oh 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. All right.

Please, that's your assignment. Free with ads at MaximumFun.org. Send us your Matt degree of Kevin Bacon. We'll be back to rank the movie right after this. We're back, Itets Free with Ads. We're going to rank Tremors on a scale of 1 to 10 super loud commercials. Emily, 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 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. Yeah, 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 hate to sound like- Popcorn. Yeah, was it Harry Styles? Yeah, yeah, this is like a movie

that you see in a theater. It's like a movie, popcorn. Yeah, but like for real though, 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. Nice. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I like this movie a this. So I'm gonna give it a seven. I think it was great. Yeah. Yeah, 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 explaining things in ways that aren't that fun. I did wanna 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 could have a little bit more of just 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 gonna give it an eight. Nice. Emily? I love this movie. I like that you said the thing about too much backstory.

People do too much backstory. This movie did the opposite, where you learned about the beasts as they learned to prey upon people. Because the beast was changing, the tremors were changing over time. So new things that the tremors were doing were things that the tremors didn't even know they could do. They were figuring out how to kill people while people were trying to figure out how

to kill people while people were trying to, like, figure out how to kill them. So it was a really cool, like, 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, or whatever. If they made this movie now, like, a general or, like, a hacker would explain this to you.

Yeah, there would be too much lore that could, would get in the way of progress in terms of story. So, I liked that this, 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 Tremors 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've 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 gonna 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. You're just getting away from the Tremors? and 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. You're just getting away from the tremors again? Yeah, but it was still a joyful, fun movie. It's so fun, yeah. And it's also just about friendship.

There you go, friendship. Yeah. Conquer's all. There's no worm that can devour friendship. All right. Hey, let's do a little plug-in, shall we? As we mentioned at the top of the show, we've been officially going for a year now. Thank you to everybody who's listening to the show.

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Oh yeah, it's kind of like Lost Boys, Near Dark. Fucking cool. Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be really cool. You're gonna love it. I can't wait. I'm gonna do some signings in the Southern California and Northern California areas. On the 5th, I will be at Arsenal Comics

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that's actually, this coming, so tomorrow. Whoa. I'm gonna be over at the Ice House in Pasadena with my wife and a few other great comics. And it's gonna be really fun. Please buy your tickets now. The ticket link will be in the description. Emily, are you ready to announce your thing

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but we're gonna talk about Nosferatu, a symphony of horror from 1922. This one's hornier, I assume. May it be? I don't know. It's silent. It's silent, I assume. May well it be, I don't know. It's silent. It's silent, but deadly.

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