Under The Influence
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAJ, Daniel, and Nathan love movies, and love to drink alcohol booze. So why not combine the two and make a gift to give the world? Here it is!
Under The Influence is a monthly show where three idiots record a commentary track you can play simultaneously while watching a movie. Think of it like Mystery Science Theater, except they're just drunk instead of clever.
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Episodes
Purple Rain or: A Horny Tale Told By a Virgin
June 21, 2018 23:00 - 2 hours - 49.8 MBThe audience voted, and the Rowdy Boys have to get drunk and watch Purple Rain. Nathan makes a costume change and spends the rest of the night regretting it, Daniel ruins the rug, and AJ fails to remember the names of all the Hungry Hungry Hippos. Also: BIG NEWS! We've started offering a streaming video version of the show over at Twitch! Watch along with us over at https://www.twitch.tv/undertheinfluencepodcast/events for even more fun.
Reefer Madness or: The Lard Your Children Crave
April 20, 2018 22:30 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBForget about the Rowdy Boys, meet the new Mellow Boys! There's something funny about this episode... like a stinky smell and something that keeps making us laugh. Not quite sure what it is... Anyway, we watched a little movie called "Tell Your Children", but most people call it "Reefer Madness". It's an anti-cannabis propaganda film and boy oh boy is it right. We played enough arcade games in the 90's to know better. Keep that gross green loser grass away from us. In this episode we ha...
Forrest Gump or: That Hot Hot Jelly
March 21, 2018 17:30 - 2 hours - 59 MBIt's March and that means the little gold man is here (and no, we're not talking about the leprechaun) (and no, we're also not talking about Cee Lo Green) (why are you even bringing up Cee Lo? What does he have to do with the month of March?)... that's right it's OSCAR TIME! We put the vote to the listeners and the audience choice was Forrest Gump. Really? Guys that's what you wanted us to watch? Okaaaay. Well we put on our leg braces, drank ourselves into a below-average IQ, and did a l...
Groundhog Day or: This Movie is a Movie
March 03, 2018 01:05 - 1 hour - 73.6 MBWe’ve been staring into the abyss for an entire month now. And the Abyss’s goofy ass rodent face is staring us right back. Daniel has aged 20 years in a night. Nathan introduces us to Roose Sprongstern, and gives a brief history of the city of Punxatawney. AJ talks about how to prepare the Groundhog for the feast. We talk sugar dispensers. The bumper stickers are making us crazy. God can’t build a gazebo so big he can’t host a party in it. Jesus was the original crime fighting wrestler. Be...
Groundhog Day or: Day of the Hog: The Phil Collins Story
February 23, 2018 00:09 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBWe're trapped in Hell. A Hell of our own creation, co-written by a thousand moms working at a thousand typewriters. AJ is still stumping for hardcore sex and violence, Nathan is railing against Stephen Spielberg, and Daniel introduces Daniel's Faniels: a podcast within a podcast. Hot takes on Hitler, Daniel's dad brings a loose ham sandwich to the movies, Tito the capybara prognosticates the "Big Game". Please seriously someone help us. We're losing our minds. It's like that movie whe...
Groundhog Day or: Don't Be the Poop
February 17, 2018 02:58 - 1 hour - 75.9 MBThis all feels strangely familiar... Like we've done a Groundhog Day episode already and we're being forced to relive the same episode of Under The Influence over and over. Anway, here's our February episode! It's Groundhog Day and we're bringing all the drunk movie commentary you can shake a stick at and brother, lemme tell you we shake the hell out of that stick. Get ready to hear all about our childhood friend Testarosa McGillicutty, Sonny Bono's burial plans, Shrill Murray, regional TV ...
Groundhog Day or: A Prolapsed Boner
February 11, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBThe Rowdy Boys welcome you to AJ's beatiful dark twisted fantasy. In honor of America's Rodent we watched Groundhog Day and boy oh boy it's a journey into the mouth of madness. Along the way Nathan reveals his mutant power, we all fall in love with Andie MacDowell, there's singing, there's a lot of mouth sounds, and an inordinate amount of Michael Shannon talk.
Jack Frost or: I'd Gladly Let A School Shooter Murder Me
December 22, 2017 23:09 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBThe holidays are upon us and the Rowdy Boys are celebrating the only way they know how: rancid eggnog shots and bargain bin presents! This Christmas we put it to our listeners and they chose the 1997 Michael Cooney fantasy classic Jack Frost. Along the way we learn that humor is selective, we get an episode of "Sittin With It", we talk turtlenecks, superbarns, someone becomes an amaretto millionaire, but mostly we just wanna play Lear.
Encino Man or: Your Heart Is Full of Gravy
December 09, 2017 20:53 - 1 hour - 66 MBOur Thanksgiving special is here! We've got the turkey and the sweet potatoes and a cool sexy caveman is gonna share it with us. We talk about using all the parts of the M. Bison, AJ can't stop picturing "that jaundiced little worm", Daniel has strong opinions about the DeLuise family, and Nathan shows off his ability to drunkenly recall the lyrics to songs that exist in fiction.
Ernest Scared Stupid or: He's Just a Regular Idiot, He's Not a Sex Idiot
October 15, 2017 16:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBOkay so we recorded this one back in July as a "Haloween in July" goof; but never got around to releasing it until actual Haloween. So here you go: we drank a lot of tequila and watched the scary Ernest movie. Ernest makes a smelly vagina joke, Daniel reminisces about Fat Satin Jacket days, AJ gets convinced that Ernest has sinister carnal urges, and Mickey Rooney's latent racist ghost plays Ernest's father.
The Running Man or: Cutest Teeth In Professional Wrestling
July 02, 2017 15:43 - 1 hour - 107 MBJoin the Rowdy Boys as they provide a follow-along commentary track for everyone's favorite Schwarzenegger/King collabo: The Running Man! It's a cavalcade of what-the-heck-is-that-person-doing-in-this-movie stars, with our favorite Austrian muscle man fighting for freedom from an evil game show host, with musicians, athletes, wrestlers, and choreographed jazz dancers! We discuss unusual deaths, play a clip from our lost episode, talk a lot about Richard Dawson's smooch crimes, try to s...
Ten Things I Hate About You or: Milk Carton McMotorcycle
February 21, 2017 04:50 - 1 hour - 153 MBWhelp, we done did it again. The Rowdy Boys™ are hopeless romantics, and so this February we put it to the listeners to choose a romantic film for us to forget we watched. That film turned out to be the 1990's Teen Shakespeare classic Ten Things I Hate About You. And brother let me tell you we watched the hell out of it. There's a few moments toward the end where we kinda forgot we were supposed to be talking. This commentary track has it all: Andrew tries to figure out which one of u...
Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan or, The Puck Stops Here
January 13, 2017 04:59 - 1 hour - 108 MBIt's the first movie of 2017 and it falls on FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH!!! So we're watching a Friday The 13th movie and you guys decided it would be Jason Takes Manhattan. Here's what you're gonna have to deal with: this movie has a lot of gratuitous nudity and as drunk boys we get stuck talking about it a lot at the beginning. We apologize for saying "titties" so much. Maybe the creators of Friday The 13th Part VIII should have worked a little more on getting that big masked murder boy to Man...
BONUS EPISODE! Home Alone or: Brut Is For Men, Wait Until You're A Man
December 05, 2016 12:23 - 1 hour - 104 MBIt's time for your Christmas Bonus! That's right, a bonus episode of Under The Influence! Gather the family and listen as we throw a raging holiday party with a house full of guests, open presents, drink an entire punchbowl of egg nog, scream at one another ,and just generally forget that we're watching Home Alone. It's a Christmas miracle nobody threw up. Once again, our show is somehow legitimately brought to you by Against The Grain Brewery! Check them out at www.atgbrewery.com whe...
Gremlins or: Merkin For The Weekend
December 05, 2016 12:13 - 2 hours - 113 MBThe Holiday season is upon us and we're celebrating in that time-honored tradition of watching the Joe Dante's greatest Christmas movie, Gremlins! Daniel uncorks a bottle of ill-fated presidential champagne, AJ talks about the Shakespeare of dogs, and Nathan P. falls asleep again. This month's episode is brought to you by Against The Grain Brewery! Check them out at www.atgbrewery.com where right now until January 31st you can get a free $10 bonus gift card when you spend $100 on gift car...
Black Sheep or: Chekhov's Busey
November 13, 2016 16:03 - 2 hours - 124 MBIt's the Great American political film episode of Under The Influence and we did this really hilarious thing where we recorded the episode a month ahead of time and pretended like the election was already over, and something really terrible had happened. Because there's no way that would actually happen, right? HILARIOUS JOKE. You listeners must have been in on the joke as well, because in a terrible miscarriage of democracy you voted for Black Sheep. Nathan, in a fit of righteous indigna...
Maximum Overdrive, or: Ram Jam On Cassettey
October 24, 2016 00:15 - 2 hours - 141 MBThe people have spoken! Or should I say... SPOOKEN??? No, no, spoken is better. It's our Halloween episode, and this month we watched Maximium Overdrive! A movie that's more famous for Stephen King directing it high on cocaine than it is for being terrible. Which is really saying something. AJ gets a delicious deal, Nathan finally finds a leading lady he can get into, we wander off into reading a review of a different movie for a while, there's a chug off, then a rap battle, the ghost of V...
Road House or: Grocery Cucks
September 29, 2016 15:28 - 2 hours - 128 MBDaniel, Nathan, and AJ drank a whole lotta tequila, ate a giant plate of bagel bites, and watched Road House. So here's your commentary track. There's a brief intermission in the middle where we take a break and perform a two-act Brechtian play based on the film, Nathan makes some editorial choices with his characters' portrayals. A lot of inappropriate things are said about Daniel's aunts. All in all, we think we've created an enhanced viewing experience for this film. Enjoy!