{"podcast":{"title":"The Movie Defenders","slug":"the-movie-defenders-1124025","podcast_index_feed_id":1124025,"rss_url":"https://moviedefenders.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.moviedefenders.libsyn.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/1/c/2/a1c29401b747451dd959afa2a1bf1c87/MDLogo1-Square.png","author":"Scott Alden","episode_count":269,"summary":"The Movie Defenders is a podcast which discusses the positive aspects of popular movies. Most movie review podcasts spend the entire time tearing down the movies you love instead of celebrating them. We take popular movies that have been ridiculed by critics and defend them. Come listen to a fun discussion of the movies you love, or perhaps re-consider a movie again that you didn't like as much as you wish you did. If you like movies, you found the only podcast with movie reviews that loves them as much as you do!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T08:19:22.459143+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 218: Tommy Boy","slug":"ep-218-tommy-boy","published_at":"2026-02-22T22:50:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025/ep-218-tommy-boy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025","url":"https://moviedefenders.libsyn.com/ep-218-tommy-boy","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moviedefenders/TommyBoyShow_-_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=556233","summary":"Tommy Boy quite simply is one of the iconic comedies of a generation, and a staple of a tragically short, but powerful career in Chris Farley. He and Spade together are like chocolate and peanut butter. But beyond the slapstick, physical humor of Farley, there is some really terrific writing in here, and Farley himself even delivers a dramatic and nuanced performance when it's called for. You won't watch Tommy Boy the same way again once you hear our break down. We also give our top 5 Chris Farley moments of all time. So don't let in the moths, watch your hair piece, and celebrate that D+... it's time for Tommy Boy on The Movie Defenders podcast! Click here to listen and connect anywhere: https://linktr.ee/moviedefenders 00:00:00 Intro and What We've Been Watching 00:35:37 Top 5 Chris Farley Moments 01:04:20 Tommy Boy Discussion Starts 01:29:47 Richard Picks up Tommy 01:50:58 Tommy In Over His Head 02:02:56 Wind is Gone From the Sails 02:29:26 Richard Wrecks Tommy 02:32:26 Tommy Want Wingys 02:39:38 Spanktravision 02:50:56 Tommy Pleads His Case 02:58:29 Tommy Gets On the News 03:05:55 President Tommy Boy Special thanks to our amazing Patreon supporters! Alex Kirkby Alexis Helman Barrett Young Bart German Brett Bowen Daryl Ewry Doug Robertson Ena Haynes Eric Blattberg Jason Chastain Josh Evans Joshua Loy Katherine Boulware Kevin Athey Mark Nattress Mark Martin Megan Bush Michal Kaczmarek Michael Puckett Nick Nagher Randal Silver Sean Masters Stephanie Ewry Tim TJ Walker Attack of the Killer Podcast","meta_description":"Tommy Boy quite simply is one of the iconic comedies of a generation, and a staple of a tragically short, but powerful career in Chris Farley. He and Spad…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":12138,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-movie-defenders-1124025/episodes/ep-218-tommy-boy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-movie-defenders-1124025/ep-218-tommy-boy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}