{"podcast":{"title":"Movie Torture","slug":"movie-torture-6397512","podcast_index_feed_id":6397512,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/movietorture/","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/movietorture","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/d0d09220-f912-48b7-8a2c-60da6cca67ca/Party-3000-x-3000-px-1400-x-1400-px-1400-x-1400-px-3000-x-3000-.jpg","author":"Hopecast","episode_count":179,"summary":"Join Brad, Mark and MTD as they tackle movies you may not want to watch, laugh a lot, and figure out if this movie is movie torture or movie gold..","last_synced_at":"2026-06-30T04:18:48.862743+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/movie-torture-6397512"},"episode":{"title":"Revenge of the Nerds (1984)","slug":"revenge-of-the-nerds-1984","published_at":"2026-03-16T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/movie-torture-6397512/revenge-of-the-nerds-1984","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/movie-torture-6397512","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/movietorture","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/18fc306e-0c77-47c5-b283-dac837268ead.mp3","summary":"On this episode of  Movie Torture , the boys somehow turn  Revenge of the Nerds  into a full-blown discussion about boogers, mooning, prison sentences, and whether MTD belongs with the  Alpha Betas  or the  Lambda Lambdas . Brad immediately hijacks the show by proudly announcing that if anybody on the podcast is Booger, it is 100% him, then follows it up with a Navy story about pulling a booger the size of a corn kernel out of his face like he just discovered buried treasure. Jacob contributes by explaining the emotional devastation of thinking you have a bat in the cave and finding out your nose was just lying to you. Once they finally remember there is a movie to talk about, Brad gets sentimental about Robert Carradine, because to him Lewis will always be a legend, a laugh, and a man who somehow made giant glasses look cool. The guys agree the movie is a complete 80s time capsule, right down to the outfits, the soundtrack, the robot side chick, and a fraternity system that would now lead to about 47 separate felony counts and a Dateline special. From there, the episode becomes a courtroom drama disguised as a comedy recap. Brad and Jacob basically spend an hour deciding which characters are going to jail and for how long. The nerds are somehow lovable and criminal at the same time, the jocks are idiots, and everyone in the movie appears to be one bad decision away from doing 15 to life. Brad repeatedly reminds everyone that Lewis is not surviving modern law enforcement, especially after the Darth Vader moon bounce incident, while Jacob tries to keep at least one foot in reality and point out that none of this is remotely okay, even if it is funny. They also stop the movie several times to argue about whether Brad is actually a nerd, whic…","meta_description":"On this episode of Movie Torture , the boys somehow turn Revenge of the Nerds into a full-blown discussion about boogers, mooning, priso…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3857,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/movie-torture-6397512/episodes/revenge-of-the-nerds-1984/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/movie-torture-6397512/revenge-of-the-nerds-1984.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}