Disenfranchised Podcast
@disenfranchpod.bsky.social
A podcast about failed franchise starters, films that fancied themselves full-fledged franchises before falling flat on their face after the first film. Hosted by Stephen Foxworthy, Brett Wright, and Tucker.
Before Elphaba & Galinda make their return to the big screen this weekend, we went back with Baby Fairuza Balk to the Gen X/Millennial nightmare of our choosing! Join us TOMORROW as we talk 1985's RETURN TO OZ!
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Before Elphaba & Galinda make their return to the big screen this weekend, we went back with Baby Fairuza Balk to the Gen X/Millennial nightmare of our choosing! Join us TOMORROW as we talk 1985's RETURN TO OZ!
With PREDATOR: BADLANDS in theaters tomorrow, we're talking about Shane Black's flawed-but-still-fun return to the Predator franchise with 2018's THE PREDATOR - available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
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November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
With PREDATOR: BADLANDS in theaters tomorrow, we're talking about Shane Black's flawed-but-still-fun return to the Predator franchise with 2018's THE PREDATOR - available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
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apple.co/496qSsu
This week, we're wrapping up our 2025 Spooky-thon with the 2014 remake of THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN, joined by the incomparable @brianwaves42.bsky.social! Check it out NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
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October 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This week, we're wrapping up our 2025 Spooky-thon with the 2014 remake of THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN, joined by the incomparable @brianwaves42.bsky.social! Check it out NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
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apple.co/47iXMmX
It's another Spooky-thon and we're taking on 2000s-era horror remakes! Last week, 2008's PROM NIGHT! This week, we're joined by our friend Evan Wilson of the Grand Voodoo Band to talk 2005's THE AMITYVILLE HORROR! Get caught up & get scared!
PROM NIGHT: apple.co/4mY75P8
AMITYVILLE: apple.co/4nJefI9
PROM NIGHT: apple.co/4mY75P8
AMITYVILLE: apple.co/4nJefI9
October 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It's another Spooky-thon and we're taking on 2000s-era horror remakes! Last week, 2008's PROM NIGHT! This week, we're joined by our friend Evan Wilson of the Grand Voodoo Band to talk 2005's THE AMITYVILLE HORROR! Get caught up & get scared!
PROM NIGHT: apple.co/4mY75P8
AMITYVILLE: apple.co/4nJefI9
PROM NIGHT: apple.co/4mY75P8
AMITYVILLE: apple.co/4nJefI9
This week, we wrap up Sketch-tember with a high-speed, high-stakes chase with recurring "Mr. Show" character Ronnie Dobbs as we dig into 2002's RUN RONNIE RUN! available NOW effervescent you get your podcasts!
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September 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This week, we wrap up Sketch-tember with a high-speed, high-stakes chase with recurring "Mr. Show" character Ronnie Dobbs as we dig into 2002's RUN RONNIE RUN! available NOW effervescent you get your podcasts!
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apple.co/46Y5Cn8
Sketch-tember marches on as we're heading back to Canada to talk The Kids in the Hall, Lorne Michaels impressions, and the dangerous side effects of 1996's BRAIN CANDY! Now streaming wherever podcasts are sold!
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September 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Sketch-tember marches on as we're heading back to Canada to talk The Kids in the Hall, Lorne Michaels impressions, and the dangerous side effects of 1996's BRAIN CANDY! Now streaming wherever podcasts are sold!
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This week, Sketch-tember continues and we find out if we're turtley enough for the Turtle Club as we talk sketch legend, star of "SNL" and "The Dana Carvey Show," Dana Carvey's 2002 box office bomb THE MASTER OF DISGUISE - coming this THURSDAY wherever podcasts are sold!
September 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This week, Sketch-tember continues and we find out if we're turtley enough for the Turtle Club as we talk sketch legend, star of "SNL" and "The Dana Carvey Show," Dana Carvey's 2002 box office bomb THE MASTER OF DISGUISE - coming this THURSDAY wherever podcasts are sold!
This week, we're kicking off Season 6 with our Sketch-tember theme month and we're starting in the Great White North with SCTV, Bob & Doug McKenzie, and the weirdest adaptation of Hamlet in 1983's STRANGE BREW - available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
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September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This week, we're kicking off Season 6 with our Sketch-tember theme month and we're starting in the Great White North with SCTV, Bob & Doug McKenzie, and the weirdest adaptation of Hamlet in 1983's STRANGE BREW - available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
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apple.co/4gbE9Bt
Through the darkness of future's past,
The magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds:
FIRE WALK WITH ME
⛰️🏔🔥🚶♂️🚶♀️
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The magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds:
FIRE WALK WITH ME
⛰️🏔🔥🚶♂️🚶♀️
apple.co/3HAS2MO
August 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Through the darkness of future's past,
The magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds:
FIRE WALK WITH ME
⛰️🏔🔥🚶♂️🚶♀️
apple.co/3HAS2MO
The magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds:
FIRE WALK WITH ME
⛰️🏔🔥🚶♂️🚶♀️
apple.co/3HAS2MO
!KCOR S'TEL
This week, that gum we like is coming back in style! We're talking tonal whiplash, the sincerity of the late, great David Lynch, and the tragedies of a little town in Washington state as we discuss 1992's TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME! Join us this Thursday! Our log does not judge!
This week, that gum we like is coming back in style! We're talking tonal whiplash, the sincerity of the late, great David Lynch, and the tragedies of a little town in Washington state as we discuss 1992's TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME! Join us this Thursday! Our log does not judge!
August 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
!KCOR S'TEL
This week, that gum we like is coming back in style! We're talking tonal whiplash, the sincerity of the late, great David Lynch, and the tragedies of a little town in Washington state as we discuss 1992's TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME! Join us this Thursday! Our log does not judge!
This week, that gum we like is coming back in style! We're talking tonal whiplash, the sincerity of the late, great David Lynch, and the tragedies of a little town in Washington state as we discuss 1992's TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME! Join us this Thursday! Our log does not judge!
With a TOXIC AVENGER remake on the horizon, this week we're taking a look at another Troma hero... albeit one who *didn't* spawn his own franchise! We're talking the late-'80s Asian boom, Troma trauma, and SO MUCH MORE this Thursday when we talk 1990's SGT. KABUKIMAN N.Y.P.D! Join us, won't you??
August 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
With a TOXIC AVENGER remake on the horizon, this week we're taking a look at another Troma hero... albeit one who *didn't* spawn his own franchise! We're talking the late-'80s Asian boom, Troma trauma, and SO MUCH MORE this Thursday when we talk 1990's SGT. KABUKIMAN N.Y.P.D! Join us, won't you??
R.I.P. to the great Terence Stamp, mainstay of failed franchise starters of a certain era and star of actually great films like SUPERMAN II and THE LIMEY! We've recorded a couple episodes in which he's been featured (and we'll cover a few more), but he'll always be Zod to us!
August 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
R.I.P. to the great Terence Stamp, mainstay of failed franchise starters of a certain era and star of actually great films like SUPERMAN II and THE LIMEY! We've recorded a couple episodes in which he's been featured (and we'll cover a few more), but he'll always be Zod to us!
With #FreakierFriday in theaters, the boys dig into the pandemic-era body swap slasher! Join us as we discuss Christopher Landon's incredibly fun FREAKY (2020)!
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August 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
With #FreakierFriday in theaters, the boys dig into the pandemic-era body swap slasher! Join us as we discuss Christopher Landon's incredibly fun FREAKY (2020)!
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apple.co/3JdZPR4
With #FantasticFourFirstSteps dropping next week, we're talking about a classic bootleg staple that is... low-key charming? We're talking the Roger Corman-produced 1994 THE FANTASTIC FOUR! Listen NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
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July 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
With #FantasticFourFirstSteps dropping next week, we're talking about a classic bootleg staple that is... low-key charming? We're talking the Roger Corman-produced 1994 THE FANTASTIC FOUR! Listen NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
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apple.co/40Rmh8s
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a new episode of Disenfranchised on Zack Snyder's 2013 MAN OF STEEL, in honor of the new #Superman film opening this week! Available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
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July 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a new episode of Disenfranchised on Zack Snyder's 2013 MAN OF STEEL, in honor of the new #Superman film opening this week! Available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
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With James Gunn's #Superman hitting theaters this week, we're talking 2013's MAN OF STEEL in what might be one of our longest, most focused episodes in a while! Does it actually fit our format?? Listen TOMORROW wherever you get your podcasts and find out!
July 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
With James Gunn's #Superman hitting theaters this week, we're talking 2013's MAN OF STEEL in what might be one of our longest, most focused episodes in a while! Does it actually fit our format?? Listen TOMORROW wherever you get your podcasts and find out!
This week, with a new #JurassicWorld movie in theaters, we're taking a look at another dino-centric big screen effort: 2009's LAND OF THE LOST! Look for it in your podfeeds this THURSDAY!
July 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This week, with a new #JurassicWorld movie in theaters, we're taking a look at another dino-centric big screen effort: 2009's LAND OF THE LOST! Look for it in your podfeeds this THURSDAY!
This week, with M3GAN 2.0 hitting box offices, we're looking at another recent Blumhouse killer AI movie - 2024's AFR(AI)D! Available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
(Chris Weitz, come on the podcast!)
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(Chris Weitz, come on the podcast!)
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June 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This week, with M3GAN 2.0 hitting box offices, we're looking at another recent Blumhouse killer AI movie - 2024's AFR(AI)D! Available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
(Chris Weitz, come on the podcast!)
bit.ly/3HYCe6e
(Chris Weitz, come on the podcast!)
bit.ly/3HYCe6e
Stephen's out moonlighting again! Check out this great conversation on David Lynch's 1980 film, THE ELEPHANT MAN with past & future guest Nichole Goble @bodiesofhorror.bsky.social - available NOW wherever you get your podcasts!
June 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Stephen's out moonlighting again! Check out this great conversation on David Lynch's 1980 film, THE ELEPHANT MAN with past & future guest Nichole Goble @bodiesofhorror.bsky.social - available NOW wherever you get your podcasts!
This week, with M3GAN 2.0 hitting theaters, we're taking a look at another recent evil AI horror flick from Blumhouse... albeit one that, by the director's own admission, doesn't exist! That's right: it's 2024's AFR(AI)D! Watch for it this THURSDAY wherever podcasts are sold!
June 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This week, with M3GAN 2.0 hitting theaters, we're taking a look at another recent evil AI horror flick from Blumhouse... albeit one that, by the director's own admission, doesn't exist! That's right: it's 2024's AFR(AI)D! Watch for it this THURSDAY wherever podcasts are sold!
Friend of the pod @highimhope.bsky.social embarks on a new podcast endeavor with The Lanes Between, a Radio Fan Fic podcast! Check it out TODAY wherever you get your podcasts!
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June 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Friend of the pod @highimhope.bsky.social embarks on a new podcast endeavor with The Lanes Between, a Radio Fan Fic podcast! Check it out TODAY wherever you get your podcasts!
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RIP to the great Gailard Sartain, perhaps best known as 'Chuck' from the Ernest films, but beloved by Disenfranchisees as 'Colette Watchuwill' in 1999's EXISTO! Honor his legacy, spin the bishop, and check out our Straight Up episode on EXISTO:
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June 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
RIP to the great Gailard Sartain, perhaps best known as 'Chuck' from the Ernest films, but beloved by Disenfranchisees as 'Colette Watchuwill' in 1999's EXISTO! Honor his legacy, spin the bishop, and check out our Straight Up episode on EXISTO:
bit.ly/4ncAtT6
bit.ly/4ncAtT6
Happy 34th birthday to THE ROCKETEER! Check out this great article, then listen to our *EARLY* episode on the 1991 classic!
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June 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Happy 34th birthday to THE ROCKETEER! Check out this great article, then listen to our *EARLY* episode on the 1991 classic!
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bit.ly/3I533Wf
This week, we're putting the careers of Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, and Martin Short under the microscope and share our deep love of Joe Dante as we take a look at 1987's INNERSPACE! Available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
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June 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This week, we're putting the careers of Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, and Martin Short under the microscope and share our deep love of Joe Dante as we take a look at 1987's INNERSPACE! Available NOW wherever podcasts are sold!
bit.ly/4efAqBU
bit.ly/4efAqBU
This week, we're sharing our adoration of the great Joe Dante as we cover his 1987 high-concept sci-fi comedy INNERSPACE! Coming this THURSDAY wherever you get your podcasts!
June 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This week, we're sharing our adoration of the great Joe Dante as we cover his 1987 high-concept sci-fi comedy INNERSPACE! Coming this THURSDAY wherever you get your podcasts!