Traumatized with Erin and Jason
116 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsTraumatized is a weekly podcast in which your hosts Erin Ridgeway and Jason Apple bravely re-watch the terrifying children’s media that frightened them as kids, and ask themselves, “what were our parents thinking?”
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Traumatized Episode 62 - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
January 06, 2020 04:58 - 58 minutes - 54 MBOur Christmas episode got lost in a big snowstorm and we almost had to cancel, but thankfully a little genetic aberration with a shiny red nose has guided us to you just in time for the twelfth day of Christmas, so we're technically in under the wire. Celebrate the new year with us as we discuss Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 61 - The Santa Clause
December 24, 2019 04:06 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBA killer is forced by magical contract to assume his victim’s identity and carry out his unfinished business as the eternal punishment for his crimes. Horror novella? Or the plot of a family Christmas film? You be the judge as we discuss The Santa Clause. [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast.com facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 60 - The Craft
November 21, 2019 22:05 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBIf God and the Devil had a podcast, Manon would be the microphone. Grab your black duster and your finest baby tee and call the corners with us as we discuss the deeply bonkers 1996 tale of teenage witches gone bad, The Craft. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 59 - Monster Squad
October 31, 2019 15:49 - 1 hour - 71 MBTrick or treat! This week, we’re discussing a movie that’s both. Join the only podcast hosts with the nards to ask important questions like “Why are kids’ Halloween movies so obsessed with virgins?” and “Where is Dracula getting all that dynamite?” Grab a plastic pumpkin full of candy and celebrate Halloween with us as we discuss The Monster Squad. [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 58 - Ladyhawke
October 16, 2019 03:29 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBHave you ever asked yourself, "What if Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but medieval?" If you have, congratulations, you're Richard Donner, and you are responsible for this 1985 sword and sorcery film about a woman in bird's clothing and the wolfman who loves her. Join us as we work through the many, many questions we have about Ladyhawke. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 57 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
September 25, 2019 18:55 - 1 hour - 63 MBDescend with us into the New York City sewers with everyone's favorite heroes in a half-shell as we discuss the 1990 live-action film version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 56 - REWIND - The Dark Crystal
September 05, 2019 03:46 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBIn our first ever Rewind episode, we're revisiting an old episode to take advantage of a pop culture event that's taking advantage of our collective nostalgia in a magnificent nostalgia ouroboros. Before you watch The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance on Netflix, take a listen to our 2018 episode about the original 1982 film. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 55 - D.A.R.Y.L.
August 20, 2019 02:23 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MBWe're ending our long and unplanned summer break with D.A.R.Y.L., a tale of a perfect robot boy who was never programmed to love, but who learns how anyway. Join us as we discuss this post-modern Pinocchio story and ask yourself if you could be nicer to your Alexa. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast Facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 54 - Jaws
July 03, 2019 18:48 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBSummer is in full swing, so let’s celebrate the July 4th holiday in the most American way we know how: blowing up the world’s most powerful shark. That’s right, we’re discussing the OG summer blockbuster, Jaws. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 53 - Mac and Me
June 19, 2019 18:01What do you get if you take the premise of E.T. and ruin it? Mac and Me, that’s what. Is it so bad it’s good? Is it so bad it turned the corner and became good? Is it in fact a perfect film that we’re all too simple-minded to appreciate? We explore these questions and many more in this episode, which is definitely not sponsored by McDonald’s. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 53 - Mac and Me
June 19, 2019 18:01What do you get if you take the premise of E.T. and ruin it? Mac and Me, that’s what. Is it so bad it’s good? Is it so bad it turned the corner and became good? Is it in fact a perfect film that we’re all too simple-minded to appreciate? We explore these questions and many more in this episode, which is definitely not sponsored by McDonald’s. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 52 - Adventures in Babysitting
May 31, 2019 03:08 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBThis week, we're taking a ride in mom's station wagon into the lawless wilds of 1980s Chicago as we watch Adventures in Babysitting, a film in which the good judgement of a teen girl gets her charges almost gets her charges killed in a number of terrible ways. White-knuckle your way through this one with us, won't you? [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 51 - Beastmaster
May 23, 2019 01:53 - 1 hour - 65 MBUsually when a dude has two ferrets, it’s a dealbreaker, but not if he’s the leathery hero of The Beastmaster, a deliciously campy epic about the adventures of a simple warrior who can talk to animals. Put on your best loincloth and join us on a safari of crazy. Child sacrifice has never been this fun! [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 50 - Labyrinth
May 10, 2019 23:47 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBLet David Bowie’s skin-tight pants awaken the dance magic within you as we dive head first into the puppet bacchanal that is Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. Come, lose yourself in our wonderful maze as we ruin yet another beloved childhood film for ourselves in our 50th episode. [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 49 - The Canterville Ghost
April 25, 2019 03:51 - 58 minutes - 54 MBDon't you just hate it when you inherit an old castle and it turns out to be just slap full of ghost that only Alyssa Milano can set free from his terrible curse? Join us as we take yet another haunted house journey in the 1986 made-for-TV movie, The Canterville Ghost. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 48 - High Spirits
April 18, 2019 06:44 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBThis week, we're discussing two movies: a charming supernatural farce about an Irish lord trying to save his ancestral home from developers by faking a haunting, and a stupid ghost love quadrangle involving Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg, Beverly D'Angelo, and Liam Neeson. Unfortunately for us and everyone, these two stories have been mashed together into this unholy monstrosity, High Spirits. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/tr...
Traumatized Episode 47 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
April 06, 2019 06:02 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBBefore Sarah Michelle Gellar and the Scooby Gang staked their claim in our hearts (see what we did there?) there was Joss Whedon's 1.0 version. Join us as we watch Kristy Swanson and the late, great Luke Perry as they wear flannel, dust vamps, and avoid bogus corn in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 46 - The Peanut Butter Solution
March 22, 2019 04:51 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBIt takes a pretty special movie to start getting really weird after the ghosts show up in the kitchen with recipes, but this film is, if nothing else, special. Join us as we discover a cure for fear-induced childhood baldness in a film that may have been written by Mad Libs, The Peanut Butter Solution. [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 45 - The Electric Grandmother
March 12, 2019 18:48 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBOh boy, have we ever unearthed a treasure for your listening enjoyment this week. Can a robot teach a family to love again? What's up with that sarcophagus in the front yard? Why is all this stuff coming out of grandma, and is it safe to eat? We explore these questions and so many more that nobody really wants the answers to as we discuss Sweet Baby Ray Bradbury's forgotten children's sci-fi classic, The Electric Grandmother. [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @...
Traumatized Episode 44 - Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
March 02, 2019 19:13 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBThere comes a time in every adult’s life when we must confront just how wack was the entertainment of our childhood. Sometimes that reckoning happens in a therapists’ office. Today, it’s happening on a podcast. Join as we attempt to scrute the inscrutable mysteries of Rainbow Brite. [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 43 - Honey I Shrunk the Kids
February 21, 2019 19:50It’s a big, gross, dangerous world out there, which is why we’re staying inside to talk about the teeny-tiny hijinks in Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. Join us as we wax nostalgic about yet another charming adventure in parental neglect. This time, it’s fun-sized! [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 43 - Honey I Shrunk the Kids
February 21, 2019 19:50It’s a big, gross, dangerous world out there, which is why we’re staying inside to talk about the teeny-tiny hijinks in Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. Join us as we wax nostalgic about yet another charming adventure in parental neglect. This time, it’s fun-sized! [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 42 - The Real Ghostbusters
February 14, 2019 16:32 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBWhen there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Podcasters! Join us as we wax nostalgic about a couple of episodes of The Real Ghostbusters (TM TM TM, accept no imposters, especially gorillas.) [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast Facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 41 - The Witches
February 06, 2019 04:42 - 1 hour - 80 MBSomewhere in this episode, there is a conversation about The Witches, the 1990 film adaptation of the Roald Dahl book about a group of ladies in sensible shoes who just want some dang peace and quiet and maybe not so much poop stink in the air, and who are willing to go to extreme lengths to get it. Also, lots and lots of talk about mice, so good luck with this one, musophobics! [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Traumatized Episode 40 - E.T. LIVE at SF Sketchfest
January 23, 2019 05:52 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBLive from SF Sketchfest, we’re talking about E.T.: The Extraterrestrial. You know it, you’ve seen it, so kick back and relax while we tear that repressed trauma right out of your brain like a hypnotherapist specializing in recovered UFO abduction memories. Pleasant dreams! [email protected] Twitter + Insta: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/TraumatizedCast traumatizedpodcast.com
Traumatized Episode 39 - Wizards
January 11, 2019 07:42Remember when you were 7 and your parents left you with a babysitter and whatever animated movie they picked up at Blockbuster, and that movie turned out to be a incomprehensible post-apocalyptic tale about wizards fighting Nazis, featuring a pretty surprising amount of footage from Triumph of the Will for a family film? Well, somebody does, so we're taking a long look into the dark, weird void that is Ralph Bakshi's Wizards. [email protected] Insta + Twitter: @trau...
Traumatized Episode 39 - Wizards
January 11, 2019 07:42Remember when you were 7 and your parents left you with a babysitter and whatever animated movie they picked up at Blockbuster, and that movie turned out to be a incomprehensible post-apocalyptic tale about wizards fighting Nazis, featuring a pretty surprising amount of footage from Triumph of the Will for a family film? Well, somebody does, so we're taking a long look into the dark, weird void that is Ralph Bakshi's Wizards. [email protected] Insta + Twitter: @trau...
Episode 38 - Home Alone LIVE
December 29, 2018 05:30 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBIt’s our very first live show, and boy is it weird. Join us as we discuss Kevin’s deep-seated trauma and possible sociopathy in a deep dive on the holiday classic, Home Alone. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Episode 37 - Frosty the Snowman
December 22, 2018 06:55 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBIn this minisode, we confront the grim reality that life is fleeting, and that one day you and everyone you love will be reduced to a puddle of liquid. Thumpity thump thump, look at Frosty go. Join us as we unpack a refrigerated boxcar full of snowman-related issues as we discuss Frosty the Snowman. [email protected] Insta + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Episode 36 - The Last Starfighter
December 10, 2018 06:18 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBGreetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada. Nah, just kidding. You've just been recruited to listen to this podcast as we hop in our Star Car and take a journey through space and questionable CGI to explore The Last Starfighter. [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Episode 35 - Flight of the Navigator
November 08, 2018 19:58 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBThis week's episode is a blast from the past, which is thematically appropriate since we're discussing Flight of the Navigator, a terrifying film about confronting mortality and also Pee-wee Herman in spaceship form, which is actually less upsetting than his human form. Go figure. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/TraumatizedCast
Episode 34 - Poltergeist
October 31, 2018 16:57 - 1 hour - 103 MBCome into the light. There is peace in the light. There is podcast in the light. Join your ghosts on a very special Halloween journey through bad parenting, murderous clown dolls, the restless dead, and become a member of the First United Church of Tangina as we discuss the most terrifying, inexplicably PG-rated film of all time, Poltergeist. [email protected] Insta + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Episode 33 - Teen Witch
October 25, 2018 07:35 - 1 hour - 95.4 MBPut on your magical amulet and join your hosts for another installment of our Halloween series as we plunge deep into the heart of the 1989 teen cult classic, Teen Witch. It has baffling acting choices! It has bizarre musical numbers! It's extremely magical! It's art, and we're here for it. [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Episode 32 - Hocus Pocus
October 18, 2018 05:05 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBIt's the 25th anniversary of what has somehow become a millennial Halloween classic, Hocus Pocus. Before your hosts crumble to dust, let's unpack the appeal of this 1993 Disney flick about a trio of witches determined to suck the life out of all the children of Salem, and the teenage virgin and undead cat determined to stop them. [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Episode 31 - The Dark Crystal
October 01, 2018 04:06 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBJoin us as we journey into the brilliant mind of Jim Henson as he finds out what happens when you suck all the fun (and hot living essence) out of Muppets. We'll journey with Jen the Gelfling through a magical world, get totally grossed out by nude vultures, and ask ourselves why no one on this planet seems to have a clue how to get to Pound Town. Puppets—they're serious business. [email protected] Instagram + Twitter: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/TraumatizedCast
Episode 30 - Teen Wolf
August 23, 2018 05:52 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBBeing a teenager is a confusing time. You have new feelings and sensations. You have hair where you didn't have hair before, like on your chest, face, back, and literally covering your entire body, and you also transform into a van-surfing, b-balling, pheromone-generating werewolf. This week, we're talking about the greatest teen horror sex sports comedy ever made, Teen Wolf. Next week: The Dark Crystal [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast ...
Episode 29 - Cartoon All Stars
August 16, 2018 04:13 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBJoin your favorite ‘90s Saturday morning cartoons as they join forces to fight the war on fun…drugs! We mean drugs. The whole crew is here—Garfield, the Muppet Babies, Bugs Bunny, ALF—and they’re on a mission to stop young Michael from gateway drugging his way into a crack habit by way of a cartoon intervention. Just say yes to Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukz9QsVf8k0&ab_channel=ACMEHolidays%26Specials suggestions@traumatizedp...
Episode 28 - Super Mario Bros.
August 09, 2018 06:42 - 1 hour - 106 MBWouldn't it be cool to see Nintendo's lovable plumber brothers spring to life on the big screen? To thrill to them powering up with mushrooms and stomping Goombas and Koopa Troopers on their quest to save the Mushroom Kingdom and rescue Princess Peach from Bowser's clutches? We imagine it would be, but this is not that movie. This is an inexplicable dystopian mess that makes a mockery of everything that anyone whose kid hands ever gripped a controller holds dear. Join us as we take a long an...
Episode 27 - Dick Tracy
July 27, 2018 05:38 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBThis week, we’re discussing a film that is sometimes pretty, sometimes grotesque, and stupid throughout. We’re not sure what studio exec imagined the demand for kiddie noir, but this movie fulfilled it and then some. Join us as we untangle the dense and confusing plot of Warren Beatty’s magnum opus, Dick Tracy. Next episode: Super Mario Bros. [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/TraumatizedCast
Episode 26 - The Huggabunch Movie
July 06, 2018 14:27 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBJoin your bamboozled hosts as they try and make sense of a toy commercial disguised as an obscure 48 minute-long TV movie about a love-starved child attempting to ward off the icy hands of death through the power of hugs. “Down with bodily autonomy! Up with voyeuristic puppets living in your mirror watching everything you do!” says this Emmy-winning film under its breath. And then, more loudly, “Buy Hugga Bunch dolls!” We’re hugging it out as we discuss 1985 relic, The Hugga Bunch Movie. ...
Episode 25 - Return to Oz
June 25, 2018 06:04 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBWe are very far from Kansas, and even farther from anything resembling sanity as we dive into the dark and gritty dystopia that is the 1986 children’s horror film Return to Oz. Join us as we follow Dorothy into the blighted hellscape that once was Oz, dodging nightmarish enemies and making only slightly less nightmarish friends. Walk with us as we follow the shattered remains of the Yellow Brick Road to sort through our issues in our milestone 25th episode. suggestions@traumatizedpodca...
Episode 24 - Transformers: The Movie
June 05, 2018 07:58 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBPodcasters! More than meets the eye! Podcasters! Robots in disguise! Or, you know, actual humans who feel pain when a beloved character dies 20 minutes into a 80 minute-long toy commercial, and confusion when they try to make sense of that 80 minute-long toy commercial because their ancient brains no longer have the plasticity to comprehend an insane giant transforming robot space opera set to '80s hair metal. Join us as we try to puzzle out the plot of Transformers: The Movie. Autobots, rol...
Episode 23 - MINISODE - The Tale of the Lonely Ghost
May 29, 2018 04:35 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBJoin us as we revisit an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark that features reality’s most frightening monster: teenage girls. Oh, and there’s also a ghost and stuff. Whatevs. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, we call this minisode The Tale of the Lonely Ghost. Next week: Transformers [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/TraumatizedCast
Episode 22 - Solarbabies
May 21, 2018 07:37 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBThis week, we strap on our skates and roll into the terrible, terrible future as we discuss Solar Babies, the 1986 flop that nearly ruined Mel Brooks, and definitely ruined an hour and a half of our lives. If you’ve ever wished Mad Max had fewer cars and more teens, this movie is for you, which means this movie is for no one. Next week: Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of the Lonely Ghost [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/Traum...
Episode 21 - Anastasia
May 14, 2018 07:01 - 1 hour - 77.3 MBThis week, we’re diving into Don Bluth’s musical adventure about a Russian princess with amnesia. In a perfect world, we could also forget this film, but this is the life we’ve chosen. It has a villain who is also a rotting corpse! It has a baffling voice cast! It has more glitter than the bathroom floor of a strip club! Join us as we examine this very lightly based-in-reality animated feature and try to separate fact from fiction and ourselves from this movie forever. Next week: Solar Bab...
Episode 20 - Time Bandits
May 08, 2018 02:43 - 1 hour - 75 MBThis week, we’re discussing My First Monty Python Movie, “Time Bandits,” an adult film disguised as a fun comedy adventure for children, like dog medicine wrapped in cheese. It features time-traveling little people who may or may not be angels, Sean Connery, and lots and lots of cow skulls. It’s wild! It’s confusing! It’s pants-on-head crazy. Join us as we try and make Minotaur heads or tails of it. Next week: Anastasia [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @t...
Episode 19 - Clash of the Titans
April 30, 2018 07:12Release the stop-motion monsters! Release the shirtless Harry Hamlin! Release the Kraken! This week, we’re discussing the quasi-educational and entirely sexy Clash of the Titans, a 1981 special effects extravaganza starring legendary actors, mythological creatures, and a whole bunch of clay. It’s not a perfect movie, but it’s perfect to us. Next week: Time Bandits [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/traumatizedcast
Episode 18 - An American Tail
April 26, 2018 06:26 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBWell, we’ve finally done it. We’ve taken a childhood classic we remembered fondly and ruined it by…watching it. It turns out that a dark, gritty, heartbreaking story about the plight of anthropomorphic immigrant mice coming to America to find a better life is just as much of a bummer as it sounds like it is, with the added bonus of being incredibly irritating. Join your sick, sad hosts as we try desperately to mine laughs from the hot mess that is An American Tail. Next week: Clash of ...
Episode 17 - Krull
April 09, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBGird your loins, take up your murder Frisbee, and let us go a-questing on planet Krull. Thrill to the adventures of Prince Colwyn and Dexys Medieval Runners as they swash, buckle, and explore fabulous evil real estate in this poorly-plotted D&D campaign of an epic fantasy film. Do it for the good of the realm. Next week: An American Tail [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast Facebook: facebook.com/TraumatizedCast
Episode 16 - The UFOs of Unsolved Mysteries
April 02, 2018 08:30 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBIf you were ever a terrified eight year-old lying in bed at midnight, awake and fear-frozen, trying to determine whether the lights illuminating your bedroom are from a passing car or from the aliens that are finally here to abduct you, just like you knew they would—um, trigger warning. This week, your hosts are discussing some select UFO segments of one of the spookiest TV shows ever made, Unsolved Mysteries. Bentwaters UFO: S4, Ep. 1 Texas UFO: S3, Ep. 18 Belgian UFO: S4, Ep. 10 ...