Travoltas and Tribulations

Travoltas and Tribulations EP 35: Basic

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:00:00 -0700

Do we remember this one? Ehhh...not really. It's 2004's Basic!

Ramblings include: "Well, actually", Davey's increasing fame, a personal apology to Terry Crews, "poser", I did eat that persimmon btw, two well-kept swimming pools

CW: bug infestations, being bullied

Travoltas and Tribulations EP 34: Swordfish

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:00:00 -0700

Why were 2000's action movies so teal and orange? It's terrible!

Ramblings include: Social security talk with Devon!, the trolley problem, Good Davey vs Evil Amy, 8th grade DC field trips

CW: mentions of 9/11, terrorism, anti-middle east sentiments

Travoltas and Tribulations-EP 33: Domestic Disturbance

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:00:00 -0700

It's a fart of a film, gang. Just an absolute dusty stinker we got here.

CW: murder, being a dick to a child, stabbing, kidnapping, miscarriage

Ramblings include: Ass-film, Vince Vaughn: Human Monster, crowbar vs chair, John's really very quite good ideas, kidnapping 101, ancient de-boning techniques, Bruce Willis

Travoltas and Tribulations-EP 32: Lucky Numbers

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:00:00 -0700

This episode has it all! Peak-a-boo, fame, and fortune. Can you hang with the cool kids?

Ramblings include: Jason's great and we love him so so much, "fuckin' nerd" (lovingly), Amy's lying through their teeth, WEEWOO WEEWOO, is there actually a difference between true story and real event?

CW: bad sex jokes, murder? murder

Travoltas and Tribulations-EP 31: Battlefield Earth

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:00:00 -0700

We really thought were going to have a blast with this one, we really did. It's 2001's flop Battlefield Earth!

Ramblings include: Jason has a very good mic, a $40 investment, mini golf, blow the dome, info dumping, "10 fuckin' million", Jason basically does our jobs in this one

CW: Scientology, eugenics

Travoltas and Tribulations-EP 30: Our Friend, Martin

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:00:00 -0700

Were Amy n' Davey able to make an episode longer than the 60 minute film they watched? No, they weren't. It's 1998's Our Friend, Martin

CW: racism, sexism, assassination

Ramblings include: "Loo-buh", the letter B, it was more like 5 breaths than 3, muscular babies, We're Back

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 29: The General's Daughter

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:00:00 -0700

This is where a little snippet about our general feelings about the film goes but we barely remembered this one, or talked about it. It's 1999's General's Daughter!

CW: sexual assault, violence against women, murder

Ramblings include: where we have been, interviewing for MLMs, Davey cashing in on his new found fame, kittens, "Hello, Mr. President!?", saying Burger King a lot, Davey's glorious legacy, Disney's deadly drinking glasses, Exciting Opportunities!

Travoltas and Tribulation-Episode 28: Primary Colors

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:00:00 -0700

Amy n' Davey try to understand the rave reviews for 1998's Primary Colors!

Ramblings include: white houses, explaining a joke, a likable dipshit, Davey's really cool and super effective marathon training methods, poking, forgetting that you're being recorded

CW: sexual harassment and assault, death by suicide, statutory rape

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 27: The Thin Red Line

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:00:00 -0700

Y'know what? I can't think of a funny, quippy thing to introduce this film with. It was boring, brutal, and far too long. It's 1998's Thin Red Line!

Ramblings include: Amy projecting onto Davey, one more button, twirling, 5 o'clock shadow, "Marines the water...", Amy's no good very bad day

CW: war, death, suicide

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 26: A Civil Action

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:00:00 -0700

Amy n' Davey try and fail to discuss 1998's flop A Civil Action.

Special guest: Amy's wheezing laugh

Ramblings include: Trabolbas!, plaintiff was the correct word FYI, John C. Reilly tearin' it up, a startling confession, civil suits: the nice clothes, $22

CW: child death, cancer, drug use

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 25: She's So Lovely

Tue, 24 May 2022 18:00:00 -0700

Look! Up in the sky! It's a dramedy! It's a romcom! No! It's 1997's She's So Lovely!

Buckle in, boys, we have an extra strong CW for this one.

CW: sexual and physical assault, attempted suicide, drug/alcohol abuse. drinking while pregnant, gun violence

Ramblings include: Davey's high, Nancy Drew and her best friends the Hardy Boys, a confusing reference to 'mallows (ok, I was trying to say maybe they should have worked on this film a bit more before sending it out but whatever)

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 24: Face/Off

Mon, 16 May 2022 19:00:00 -0700

Amy n' Davey invite their only friend Ben back to witness the greatest movie of all time: Face/Off

Ramblings include: fake Travolta, ignoring Davey trying to end the show, Steven Segal, idk if they actually cried for hours, slap vs smack, John Woo is fascinating, assbergs

CW: sexual assault, surgery, sort of incest(?), dead children, neglect

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 23: Mad City

Tue, 03 May 2022 18:00:00 -0700

Amy n' Davey get some really super good, just terrific commentary on society from 1997's flop Mad City

Ramblings include: cookie voice, mouth sounds, finding your center, Amy's Celebrity Hate Corner, uggos, hooded falcons

CW: death by suicide, hostage situations, using someone's personal tragedy to your own benefit

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 22: Broken Arrow

Sat, 16 Apr 2022 14:00:00 -0700

Did Amy n' Davey do it? Did they actually manage to find a film that's worse than Devil's Rain!? Well you'll just have to listen to the episode, wontcha?

Ramblings include: Being fathers, nukes ahoy!, the anticipation of another table, the Naked Gun

CW: nukes, mentions of Hitler

Travoltathon-Episode 21: Phenomenon

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:00:00 -0700

Amy n' Davey are back at again with their buddy John! It's 1996's hit: Phenomenon!

Is it good?
Eh.
Is it bad?
Not really.
Is it earnest?
Oh baby, yes.

Ramblings include: Rosie time!, eating spiders, the most athletic language, Sean Penn's very real life of crime, very milk

CW: death, tumors, surgery, horrifying medical practices, domestic abuse, attempted murder

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 20: Michael

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 09:00:00 -0700

It's the 20th episode spectacular! Amy n' Davey host special guest and angel expert Ben Fosselman. It's 1996's slog of a film, Michael!

Ramblings include: Ben's superior mic, finding anime in the woods and becoming a man, things being almost funny (like this podcast), Roger Rabbit

CW: alcoholism, animal death, drugs, you can google the Omegaverse

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 19: Get Shorty

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 12:00:00 -0700

Amy n' Davey have done it! They've finally done it, y'all. It's a movie they both ENJOYED and RECOMMEND (with no caveats either!). It's 1995's hit Get Shorty!

Ramblings include: coat policy, strawberry drinks, Amy nails a summary, the awe inspiring power of minivans, the superiority of Thor Ragnarok, Danny Devito: the human bullet

CW: physical assault, racism, breaking and entering

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 18: Pulp Fiction

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 21:00:00 -0800

What? A movie both hosts are engaged in? We're focused, we're listening...we're centered. It's Pulp Fiction ('94) everybody!

Ramblings include: really good GIFs, a really fun guessing game, explaining a joke 2 Davey, a very enthusiastic Burger Watch!, Danny Devito being a quick little guy

CW: sexual assault, drug abuse, overdose, gun violence, lots of shouting...sorry

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 17: Look Who's Talking Now!

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:00:00 -0800

Amy n' Davey are pleasantly surprised by 1993's flop 'Look Who's Talking Now.'

Ramblings include: "Doggy executioner", Davey's love for a man in a sports jacket, what makes a Christmas movie, a really good synopsis of 'A Christmas Prince', BINGO, Santa shoving children into a chimney

CW: 90's brand of casual racism and transphobia, cheating

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 16: Eyes of an Angel

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:00:00 -0800

Amy and Davey crawl their way through 1991's Eyes of an Angel!

There are no angels in this film.

Ramblings include: one hundred American dollars, Davey not understanding what being in the closet means and totally misses all the bad jokes and Amy doesn't bother clarifying or explaining it to him, bananas, calling parents by their first name, don't google knotting

CW: drug overdose, alcoholism, animal abuse, dog fighting, bad parenting

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 15: Shout

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:00:00 -0800

In this week's belated episode, Davey nudges along a yawning Amy into watching 1991's most forgettable film: Shout. There is no shouting in this movie.

Ramblings include: Good Boys, what is a Boys' Home?, Davey's impeccable memory, Amy accidentally digging themselves into a hole (or, more fittingly, a ditch), Amy desperately wishing that the inevitable marching of time would flippin' speed it along

CW: mentions of suicide, hints of child abuse, racism, murder, meaningless hard manual labor, underage drinking

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 14: Look Who's Talking Too

Sun, 02 Jan 2022 20:00:00 -0800

Amy n' Davey grit their teeth and force themselves to watch the creatively titled sequel: Look Who's Talking Too.

Ramblings include: shit talking doctors, eupha...eu...eeuupha...mizz..mms, Davey's dark origins, Arthur's shaking fist, airhorns, Mike fandom corner, Davey accidentally digging himself into a hole, the Reagan administration

CW: sex, c sections, doctors not listening to their AFAB patients, open wounds, surgery, really gross sex jokes being relayed by literal babies

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 13: Look Who's Talking

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:00:00 -0800

Amy n' Davey get very uncomfortable watching the wonders of conception, birth, and childhood in 1989's smash hit: Look Who's Talking!

Rambling's include: "NO!", uncomfortable unhappy sounds from the hosts, being very disappointed in the lead actress, other movies

CW: Eating disorders, mentions of abortion, cheating

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 12: The Experts

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 14:00:00 -0800

Amy n' Davey barely get through their viewing of 1989's the Experts!

CW: the Cold War, uh...sex?

Ramblings include: "culturally", drooling, being very tired, origins of Children of the Corn, everything's a tongue twister in this one

Note from Davey: I don't mind Amy ribbing me for drooling. It's cool gang. It's how we roll.

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 11: Perfect

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:00:00 -0800

Amy n' Davey trudge on through 1985's flop: Perfect! Sit on down and listen to our sanities slowly wax away :)

Ramblings include: lying to children, reading stage directions out loud, that's no moon-that's that one guys balls, really awful pillow talk. seriously, just the worst. Davey's incredible editing, Amy's infatuation with Jamie Lee Curtis

CW: disordered eating, mentions of miscarriage, cheating, slut shaming

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 10: Two of a Kind

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 10:00:00 -0800

Amy n' Davey crash head first into 1983's flop Two of a Kind!

Ramblings include: the Cult of Jarrell, "fog makers", God being a bitch, parrots, Dog Talk!, saying hearsay when you actually meant speculation, the phrase "make love"

CW: uh, death I guess?

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 9: Stayin' Alive

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:00:00 -0800

Amy and Davey get their groove back with their review of 1983's Stayin' Alive!

Ramblings include: stallions, loose cannons, respecting your womanhood, the shithole that was 1980s Time Square, STRUT!

CW: cheating

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 8: Blowout

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 13:00:00 -0800

Amy and Davey go on an emotional rollercoaster with 1981's Blowout!

Ramblings include: hating fun, super dependable Jeeps, "assashanayshun attempt"

CW: murder of sex workers, attempted assault

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 7: Urban Cowboy

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:00:00 -0800

Yeeeehaww! Amy and Davey go full country reviewing the 1980 flick Urban Cowboy!

Ramblings include: self-sabotaging bodies, indulgence on the lord's day, staring, Davey's incredible insight, the quaint small town of Houston, caterpillars

CW: physical assault, alcohol abuse

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 6: Moment by Moment

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:00:00 -0700

Amy and Davey check out the 1978 flop 'Moment by Moment.'

And boy, were there a lot of moments in this one!

Ramblings include: ruining parties, the angel of death, hating a bad metaphor, becoming very self-conscious and looking up what a metaphor is, literally anything other than Moment by Moment

CW: mentions of roofies, large age gap in a romantic relationship, mentions of incest

Note: Amy does actually have OCD and wasn't just saying that

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 5: Grease

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:00:00 -0700

Amy and Davey groovy on into Grease!

CW: fatphobia, roofies, mentions of the KKK, attempted assault

Ramblings include: our general disdain for this film, slumber parties, Muhammad Ali, very old teenagers, like, incredibly old. old as balls.

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 4: Saturday Night Fever

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:00:00 -0700

Amy and Davey dive into 1977's smash hit** Saturday Night Fever!

CW: sexual assault, homophobia, racism, drug and alcohol abuse, misogyny...it's a rough one, gang

Ramblings include: Sissy Spacek's illustrious career, "discotheque", other movies that came out in 1977 because we really needed to pad this baby out, priestly brother fathers.

**it actually was a smash hit

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 3: Carrie

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 20:00:00 -0700

Amy and Davey get serious with Carrie!

But for real.

We're going to strongly recommend checking out the CWs before popping this episode on.

CW: physical and verbal abuse, abuse dynamics, sexual assault, Very Bad™ first periods, blood (in general), drunk driving

Ramblings include: disco, realizing you've been out of your teens for over a decade mid-conversation and no long know what constitutes a prom dress any more, forgetting characters names, pieces of shit, making sure you understand that this movie takes place in the 70s, smoochin'

Travoltas and Tribulations-Episode 2, Part 1: Boy in the Plastic Bubble

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:00:00 -0700

Davey and Amy explore the smash hit Boy in the Plastic Bubble!**

Ramblings include: Devil's Rain, the Ford Pinto, getting distracted by poor note taking, John Travolta's eyes

CW: Gross age gap, mentions of cancer

We do some cussin'.

**It was not a smash hit