{"podcast":{"title":"the Most Excellent 80s Movies Podcast","slug":"the-most-excellent-80s-movies-podcast-330209","podcast_index_feed_id":330209,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6702424/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-most-excellent-80s-movies-podcast--6702424","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/f62a2a47d37e297e2e981c38b2d25b81.jpg","author":"TruStory FM","episode_count":171,"summary":"It’s the podcast where a filmmaker (Nathan Blackwell of Squishy Studios) and a comedian (Krissy Lenz of Neighborhood Comedy Theatre) take a hilarious look at the 80s movies we think we love or might have missed with modern eyes and probably a significant haze of nostalgia.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T20:19:56.251208+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-most-excellent-80s-movies-podcast-330209"},"episode":{"title":"The Ice Pirates (1984) • REBROADCAST","slug":"the-ice-pirates-1984-rebroadcast","published_at":"2026-03-18T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-most-excellent-80s-movies-podcast-330209/the-ice-pirates-1984-rebroadcast","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-most-excellent-80s-movies-podcast-330209","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ice-pirates-1984-rebroadcast--70713977","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/op3.dev/e/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70713977/e93b2adb.mp3","summary":"Ice Pirates: Space Swashbuckling, Time Warps, and Robot BrothelsREBROADCASTWelcome to this episode of The Most Excellent 80s Movies Podcast! Join hosts Krissy Lenz and Nathan Blackwell, along with special guests Sean Oliver and Drew Leatham of Third Productions, as they navigate the wonderfully bonkers 1984 sci-fi comedy Ice Pirates. In a galaxy where water is the most precious commodity, space pirates raid Templar ships, stumble upon a princess in a smoke chamber, and embark on a quest involving castration conveyor belts, unicorn-riding Amazons, and a climactic time warp that ages everyone decades in minutes. This movie has everything—and we mean everything.The crew dives deep into what makes Ice Pirates such a hidden gem of '80s cinema. Despite its slashed budget (down from $20 million to $8 million, forcing a rewrite as a comedy), the film delivers genuine laughs, impressive practical effects, and surprisingly likeable characters. Robert Urich charms as the roguish lead, while Anjelica Huston and Ron Perlman steal scenes as memorable supporting pirates. The group marvels at the film's commitment to its bits—from adorable space prairie dogs to baby donkeys that pay off brilliantly in the finale. They also grapple with the movie's confusing villain structure (or lack thereof), casual '80s-era problematic moments, and a sex scene set to a slideshow called \"Passion Storm\" that somehow involves wasting precious water during coitus.What emerges is a consensus: Ice Pirates rates around five or six robots-shitting-themselves when watched alone, but jumps to a solid eight when experienced with friends. It's the perfect midnight screening movie—campy, ambitious, and genuinely funny rather than just laughably bad. The practical effects hold up remarkably well, the comedy lands…","meta_description":"Ice Pirates: Space Swashbuckling, Time Warps, and Robot BrothelsREBROADCASTWelcome to this episode of The Most Excellent 80s Movies Podcast! Join hosts Kr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3672,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-most-excellent-80s-movies-podcast-330209/episodes/the-ice-pirates-1984-rebroadcast/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-most-excellent-80s-movies-podcast-330209/the-ice-pirates-1984-rebroadcast.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}