Life's a Pitch Podcast
916 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 23 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsLife's a Pitch brings together bizarre, strange and ultimately un-makeable film ideas and pitches for your enjoyment! Every week our two hosts, Matt and Tom are given a ridiculous film title from which to improvise a movie plot. Will it be utter rubbish? Or will it be the defining creative work of a generation? Only time will tell!
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Episodes
Deleted Scenes: Aiming for Joe Rogan ratings (With Eden MW)
October 26, 2023 18:04 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBWe discuss weird guy with weapons, is Alien a Jaws movie and Tom tells us his motto for life.
Episode 451: You Will Go Down With This Ship (With Eden MW)
October 21, 2023 17:05 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MBEpisode 451: You Will Go Down With This Ship (With Eden MW) by Matt and Tom
Deleted Scenes: Andy Samberg Scratching Your Eyes Out
October 19, 2023 19:55 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBWe talk about folk horror vs cult horror, and tom discovers that he has a tier-list of Chrisses he'd like to crawl out of his TV. These are the Deleted Scenes from episode 450 of the Life's a Pitch podcast, if you'd like to be indoctrinated into understanding this strange nonsense, then we suggest you go back and listen to the main episode. Or don't, we're not the May Queen.
Episode 450: Sheep
October 15, 2023 12:07 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MBWe dive into the world of Folk horror as a group of off-grid influencers realise they're in the sheep dip, way over their head. Other movies pitched: What a Lovely Place to Die Roadkill Revenge
Deleted Scenes: Movie Boys Don't Know Good Movies
October 12, 2023 17:59 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBWe chat The Shining, Kubrick movies and the monster horror genre in this weeks spooky deleted scenes
Episode 449: Killed By A Can Of Energy Drink
October 07, 2023 21:04 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBThis week we're pitching Monster Movies! A group of toxic internet teens sneak into the Monster Energy factory in search of the latest trending energy drink, but when it shifts them into another plane of existence their only way back is to face the communities they terrorize.
Deleted Scenes: A Very Compelling RSVP
October 06, 2023 20:16 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBWe talk about all sorts of nonsense, like Ben Mendelsohns most iconic role, invent a character who just loves her Blu Ray of The Post (2017) and finally, eventually, begrudgingly talk about wedding rom coms. These are the deleted scenes for episode 448 of the Life's a Pitch Podcast, if you would like Context, Actually, then we recommend listening to the main episode. Or don't, we're not the father of the bride.
Episode 448: The Seating Plant
October 01, 2023 17:22 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBThis week we try to do Wedding Rom Coms and come out with a fairly respectable Stephen King novel. When the the wedding guests are "Randomly" assigned a seating plan by a mysterious flower in their invitations, what factor could possibly link the table furthest from the bride and groom? Other movies pitched: Obnoxiously choreographed first dance - Our love must go viral Bridezilla vs. Groom Kong
Deleted Scenes: Big Marvel Funeral
September 28, 2023 16:55 - 30 minutes - 42 MBWe talk about Wales and the Parental Road Trip genre... Including the funeral scene from Logan...
Episode 447: Jean Claude's Damn Van
September 23, 2023 07:56 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBWe're getting some issues sorted out this week as we pitch some parental road trip movies!
Deleted Scenes: 12 Angry Teens
September 20, 2023 20:37 - 20 minutes - 28.2 MBWe pitch an autobiographical movie based on real events...
Episode 446: Mary Poppins - Nanny Training
September 16, 2023 18:21 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MBThis week we're going to cynical hollywoodland and pitching some unnecessary prequels! Honourable mentions Thursday 12th I Know What You're Going To Do A Few Summers From Now
Deleted Scenes: He'll Get A Lob On (With Guest Host Dave Bulmer)
September 16, 2023 10:07 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MBMatt and Dave demonstrate just how little they know about movies, then pitch a baseball gangster movie nobody asked for, eventually managing to pitch a movie called The Rectory Retributions. It's chaos, and there's even less context than usual, so do go back and listen to the main episode, eh?
Episode 445: Gang! And The Loot Is Gone (With Guest Host Dave Bulmer)
September 12, 2023 23:02 - 42 minutes - 58 MBTom's away, so this week you get a gloriously anarchic gangster movie episode in which Matt and Dave Bulmer completely forget what's supposed to be happening whilst pitching an origin story for British infomercial star Barry Scott. Other movies pitched: An Offer You Can't Recycle
Deleted Scenes: Air Force One Is Like Robot Wars
September 06, 2023 08:00 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBWe talk about the many names American Graffiti almost had in Goodbye Burger City, hear an amusing Spielberg anecdote about Back to the Future, and talk about how transport thrillers are mainly Liam Neeson now. These are the Deleted Scenes to the Life's a Pitch Podcast episode 444, if you want to take a one way trip to context town, we recommend listening to the main episode. Or don't, we're not a crazed Willem Dafoe driving a cruise ship into a town, we don't tell you what to do.
Episode 444: Ticket Inspector From Hell
September 02, 2023 22:04 - 47 minutes - 65 MBWe pitch some Transport Thriller movies, as Brendan Fraser finds himself late for an important meeting, the only way he can get a valid ticket on the train is by committing deadly sins station by station to please a mysterious ticket inspector. Other Movies Pitched: You WILL be late The Tortoise and the Hare vs the Cartel
Deleted Scenes: Monsieur Mange Tout
August 31, 2023 18:11 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MBWe discuss the Human Achievement genre and pitch a film about a man who loves those movies. Enjoy!
Episode 443: The Last Cinnamon Challenge
August 26, 2023 18:06 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBWe delve into the world of Human Achievement Documentaries this week as we go back to a time when the cinnamon challenge was popular. Honourable Mentions Conquering Coventry Through The Bear Circle
Deleted Scenes: 12 Days Late To The Olympics 1908
August 25, 2023 00:03 - 39 minutes - 53.5 MBWe talk sports biopics, complete with our lack of sports knowledge. Pitch a globe-trotting long distance run movie, and talk about Nope again, for some reason? These are the deleted scenes for Life's a Pitch episode 442, if you need a bit of context, we recommend you listen to the main episode. Or don't, we're not His Excellency Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, we can't tell you what to do.
Episode 442: Cornelius Heptathlon, The Man Who Could Do Seven Things
August 19, 2023 21:13 - 34 minutes - 47.2 MBThis week we pitch some historical sports biopics! Discover with us the origins of multi-event athletic competition in ancient Greece! Can Cornelius win at least one game during Olympics #1? Or will he be put to death by Hemlock? He'll have to get creative if he wants to outdo any of the other athletes! Other movies pitched: Life of a Highland Games Porridge Eating Champion 10,000 Calories, the Michael Phelps Story
Deleted Scenes: Buddy The Elf: The Elf
August 17, 2023 11:39 - 34 minutes - 47 MBWe chat fish out of water movies and pitch a movie about an out of touch politician.
Episode 441: Neighbourhood Necromancer
August 13, 2023 15:08 - 39 minutes - 54 MBThis man's not in the environment where he's most comfortable! Could he be a... Fish... out of water?? Find on this weeks episode of the podcast where we pitch, fantasy magic portal, fish out of water movie "Neighbourhood Necromancer" Honourable Mentions "Fraser Vs Frasier" "But I'm Just A Capybara"
Deleted Scenes: The Tablet
August 11, 2023 12:33 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBWe pitch a time-travelling tech company's most destructive ad campaign, then talk about how weird the Ancient Aliens theories really are. These are the deleted scenes for Episode 440 of the Life's a Pitch Podcast. If you require rosetta stone for these comedy glyphs then we suggest listening to the main episode. Or don't, we're not your ancient galactic progenitors.
Episode 440: All Roads Lead To Mars
August 05, 2023 21:55 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MBThis week we pitch two sprawling movies of intrigue and adventure surrounding the fun but obviously fictional idea that aliens visited earth a long time ago. The scientists of CERN have been looking for a path, one uncovered by the Romans and abandoned long ago, a path to the home planet of their god of war. Other movie pitched: Biblically Accurate Aliens
Deleted Scenes: Troll-e (With Eden MW)
August 03, 2023 14:02 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MBWe pitch the film "Where The Trams Go At Night" In this lost pitch with Eden.
Episode 439: Grab Bag Volume 3 - "Robert"
July 29, 2023 08:51 - 33 minutes - 46 MBAnother Grab Bag episode, this time it's all to do with Robots!!
Deleted Scenes: A 50 Foot Idris Elba
July 27, 2023 16:04 - 38 minutes - 53 MBWe talk Barbiehiemer, Kaiju's and pitch a film about a huge Idris Elba!
Episode 438: Why That Duck So Big Though?
July 22, 2023 18:11 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBThere's a giant duck terrorising Chicago. Why? Find out on this weeks episode as we pitch Kaiju Movies! Honourable Mentions Nessie Rises The Bigger Mac
Deleted Scenes: Sheriff Of A Lonely Parsec
July 20, 2023 22:49 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBWe talk cowboys with Eden, pull the genre to pieces, and then describe a beautiful romance during a troubled time of humanities expansion into the wild west of the universe. These are the Deleted Scenes for the Life's a Pitch podcast episode 437. If you'd like a quantum of context, we recommend you go back and listen to the main episode. Or don't, we're not the Ranger with the Big Iron on his hip.
Episode 437: Shuttle Rodeo (With Eden MW)
July 17, 2023 13:19 - 47 minutes - 65.8 MBThis week we are joined by Eden (Queer Buccaneer) to pitch some cowboy movies! A doomed earth has become a playground for the rich and Bruce Willis must yeehaw his way into space as part of an exploitative competition Other movies pitched this episode: Pillopolis: The Small Town with a Secret From Cowboy to Cowman
Deleted Scenes: Is it Wiki or Wookie (With Ash Routh)
July 13, 2023 10:07 - 17 minutes - 24.4 MBYou may remember us coming up with a Star Wars trivia gameshow a few episodes ago. Well, as we have recently strayed into the world of a galaxy far far away, we thought we'd bring it back with Ash to see how this game would go. Play along at home and let us know what score you got!
Episode 436: Star Wars: The Jawa (With Ash Routh)
July 08, 2023 11:05 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBWe're joined by Star Wars enthusiast Ash Routh again to pitch some Star Wars TV shows.
Deleted Scenes: The Millennium Bugs
July 06, 2023 20:05 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBWe talk about disaster movies, mission impossible, and pitch a movie with very high stakes in which no-one needed to worry! These are the deleted scenes from episode 435 of the Life's a Pitch podcast. If you wish to avoid being the proverbial cow in the the twister of confusion then we recommend listening to the main episode. Or don't, we're not the head of NASA.
Episode 435: Pop
July 01, 2023 12:00 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MBMatt and Tom pitch disaster movies culminating in Pop! A dangerous mixture is created when earth's ice caps release carbon dioxide into the oceans, making them fizzy. Although this is seemingly not a problem, it becomes one when a meteor made of Mentos starts careening towards earth! Other movies pitched: Ghost Satellites Volcano of London
Deleted Scenes: "You're a Sexy Loch Ness Movie" (With Lucy)
June 29, 2023 18:34 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBWe discuss some cryptids, a fear of water amongst other things in this weeks deleted scenes!!
Episode 434: From Loch Ness to Las Vegas (With Lucy)
June 23, 2023 08:37 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MBWe're joined by comedian Lucy as we pitch some fun family cryptid movies! Honourable Mentions You Ain't Seen Nothing Yeti - a young blind yeti gets in trouble in New York! Mothman's Favourite Bar - Mothman moves to a north east british town in search of a new haunt.
Deleted Scenes: Creating Problems And Selling The Solutions (Feat. The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly)
June 21, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBWe pitch another weird guerrilla marketing campaign, while chatting about how much we hate ads, creating a toy line called My Fat Ass, and learning to elevate one little old lady's problem to a global issue.
Episode 433: Ad Campaigns 4
June 18, 2023 16:52 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBWe pitch some unhinged ad campaigns to promote some products or services. We know you're gonna love 'em but if you don't, you're still gonna have to wait 5 minutes to see the next part of your show, so you may as well settle in.
Deleted Scenes: Monkey Jungle Business
June 14, 2023 21:00 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MBWe discuss one of Matt's least favourite genre's and pitch a movie about "Trolley Curling"
Episode 432: Gravity Off
June 09, 2023 23:09 - 40 minutes - 54.9 MBWe begrudgingly enter the world of HARD SCI-FI as we pitch the film Gravity Off!! Also pitched are: "Stapler" and "Pina Collider"
Deleted Scenes: Sound Design
June 07, 2023 22:23 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBSpinning out of the recent addition of a new microphone to our kit, we wax lyrical about our favourite bits of Sound Design!
Episode 431: Star Wars Grab Bag
June 04, 2023 12:36 - 24 minutes - 33.5 MBThis week due to some difficult scheduling, we weren't able to record as normal, so here's a Star Wars-themed grab bag of pitches we never released!
Deleted Scenes: Ferris Bueller's Toxic Positivity
June 01, 2023 18:55 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBWe talk about party movies and pitch a heart warming movie about a DJ Dad!
Episode 430: The Party To End All Parties
May 28, 2023 14:52 - 43 minutes - 59.8 MBWe pitch some totally rad tennis party movies in this weeks episode. Check it out... as long as you're not square!! Honourable Mentions The Night I sunk My Dad's Yacht: A film where no one comes out well to be honest... The Ice Cream Licks Back: A Father/Son ice cream business comes under threat when the son really wants to go to a party!
Deleted Scenes: Little Boy Bluetooth
May 24, 2023 21:42 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBWe pitch a weird Far Side cartoon of a Black Mirror episode, then try to decode what makes Black Mirror stand out (or traumatise us). These are the deleted scenes for episode 429 of the Life's a Pitch Podcast. If you are plagued with the constant need for context then we suggest you go back and listen to the main episode. Or don't, you don't have to have experiences in a linear fashion.
Episode 429: Your Mind On Malware
May 20, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBThis week we make our pitches for three new episodes of Black Mirror we'd like to see in season three! Other movies pitched: Dark Mode Cancel Cleethorpes
Deleted Scenes: Knocking on the Lions Gate... Plus...
May 18, 2023 19:37 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MBWe chat about film noir, toon town, streaming services and pitch a breakfast club inspired film noir detective masterpiece! Enjoy!
Episode 428: Evil In a Wide Brimmed Hat
May 14, 2023 09:18 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MBWe explore the milky depths of the fine line between the law any doing what's right in this week... Or do we? Honourable mentions Burglary at the Burger Shop - Ray Winston learns how to do an American accent The Light on the 2nd Floor Stairwell - There's something strange about that apartment building...
Deleted Scenes: The Durex Dog
May 11, 2023 13:42 - 40 minutes - 55.5 MBWe pitch a movie about Lin Manuel Miranda time travelling, Tom tries to remember the cast of Hamilton, and we do a movie treatment of the worst part of Labyrinth. This is the Deleted Scenes for episode 427 of the Life's a Pitch Podcast, if you feel like you've been shoved through a weirdo portal, then probably go back and listen to the main episode for context. Or don't, we're not the Goblin King
Episode 427: Through The Bottom Of The Cereal Box
May 07, 2023 14:34 - 42 minutes - 58.8 MBIn this episode we pitch some Magic Portal fantasy movies which turn out to be less fantastical and more utterly bizarre, dimension hopping nonsense. Par for the course at this point though, right? Other movies pitched: To me, to you, to another world The Elevator to the Nth floor