web01.fireside.fm Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:35:26 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Quaid In Full - Episodes Tagged with “Merkins” https://quaidinfull.fireside.fm/tags/merkins Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0400 The Quaid In Full podcast rates, reviews, and ranks every single televisual work in which Dennis Quaid appears. This highly unscientific endeavor is hosted by Sarah D. Bunting and Jeb Lund, because they give a fox. en-us episodic Every Dennis Quaid property, ranked. Sarah D Bunting The Quaid In Full podcast rates, reviews, and ranks every single televisual work in which Dennis Quaid appears. This highly unscientific endeavor is hosted by Sarah D. Bunting and Jeb Lund, because they give a fox. yes tv, movies, dennis quaid Sarah D Bunting bunting@tomatonation.com S05E03: Gang Related https://quaidinfull.fireside.fm/39 ad0c3282-0dd6-4516-8ae4-ccb3424ca727 Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0400 Sarah D Bunting full 5 Sarah D Bunting 42:21 yes Kevin Smokler joins us for the third least Quaidy project QIF has covered to date: Gang Related. It's Tupac Shakur's last film, and he's very good, but it's also three or four different films patched together into a quilt of dropped threads and tone problems -- and it's NOT very good, despite an all-star cast, a couple of hilarious line readings, and a guy we'll call Nott William Winters. And as for Quaid, well, if you ever wondered what it might look like to throw Andy Dufresne's Shawshank testimony in a blender with Jason Priestley trying to cry? Here it is. Paul Blart, Rampart Suspect, the retiring-cop boat trope, Quaid's Fugitive, and why you should probably watch Stakeout instead in an all-new Quaid In Full. Overall score: 4.67 QQQ score: 1.67 Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 0 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Kevin Smokler's movie is actually good; find out more (https://www.kevinsmokler.com/) Lawrence Van Gelder's review for NYT (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/gang-film-review.html) Stephen Hunter's for WaPo (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/review97/gangrelatedhunt.htm) Special Guest: Kevin Smokler. dennis quaid, '90s movies, gang related, tupac shakur, james belushi, the shawshank redemption, the fugitive, stakeout, merkins, vinyl nation, kevin smokler, tupac shakur Kevin Smokler joins us for the third least Quaidy project QIF has covered to date: Gang Related. It's Tupac Shakur's last film, and he's very good, but it's also three or four different films patched together into a quilt of dropped threads and tone problems -- and it's NOT very good, despite an all-star cast, a couple of hilarious line readings, and a guy we'll call Nott William Winters. And as for Quaid, well, if you ever wondered what it might look like to throw Andy Dufresne's Shawshank testimony in a blender with Jason Priestley trying to cry? Here it is. Paul Blart, Rampart Suspect, the retiring-cop boat trope, Quaid's Fugitive, and why you should probably watch Stakeout instead in an all-new Quaid In Full.

Overall score: 4.67
QQQ score: 1.67
Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 0

SHOW NOTES

Special Guest: Kevin Smokler.

]]> Kevin Smokler joins us for the third least Quaidy project QIF has covered to date: Gang Related. It's Tupac Shakur's last film, and he's very good, but it's also three or four different films patched together into a quilt of dropped threads and tone problems -- and it's NOT very good, despite an all-star cast, a couple of hilarious line readings, and a guy we'll call Nott William Winters. And as for Quaid, well, if you ever wondered what it might look like to throw Andy Dufresne's Shawshank testimony in a blender with Jason Priestley trying to cry? Here it is. Paul Blart, Rampart Suspect, the retiring-cop boat trope, Quaid's Fugitive, and why you should probably watch Stakeout instead in an all-new Quaid In Full.

Overall score: 4.67
QQQ score: 1.67
Days since a lost Kuffs accident: 0

SHOW NOTES

Special Guest: Kevin Smokler.

]]> S03E07: Everybody's All-American https://quaidinfull.fireside.fm/28 37d79a86-c366-4102-9e9d-fecaaebc35b5 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0500 Sarah D Bunting full 3 Sarah D Bunting 38:06 yes Craig Calcaterra joins us this week for a very sports-movie-y sports movie: Everybody's All-American, a "one wedding and one long funeral" look at a college gridiron star's early peak and interminable fall that doesn't know which set of Quarterback Agonistes clichés it wants to use, and recycled Sophie's Choice's Stingo as Timothy Hutton's Cake, with merkinacious results. The three of us had a lot of questions -- why the hot cousin is A Thing in the Quaidverse, why the movie isn't about Jessica Lange's Babs and Carl Lumbly's Blue, and how Wayne Knight feels about that "Fraternity Pisser" credit, just for starters. At least Craig was a good sport about watching this dud, even Overall score: 3 QQQ score: 3 SHOW NOTES Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/quaidinfull) Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dennissance/id1503394153)? Roger Ebert's review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everybodys-all-american-1988) Janet Maslin's review (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/04/movies/review-film-the-glory-fades-in-everybody-s-all-american.html) John Cheever, "O Youth and Beauty!" (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1953/08/22/o-youth-and-beauty) Special Guest: Craig Calcaterra. movies, '80s movies, dennis quaid, everybody's all-american, timothy hutton, jessica lange, john goodman, carl lumbly, wayne knight, frank deford, merkins, why can't we get out of louisiana on this podcast, bad accents, football movies Craig Calcaterra joins us this week for a very sports-movie-y sports movie: Everybody's All-American, a "one wedding and one long funeral" look at a college gridiron star's early peak and interminable fall that doesn't know which set of Quarterback Agonistes clichés it wants to use, and recycled Sophie's Choice's Stingo as Timothy Hutton's Cake, with merkinacious results. The three of us had a lot of questions -- why the hot cousin is A Thing in the Quaidverse, why the movie isn't about Jessica Lange's Babs and Carl Lumbly's Blue, and how Wayne Knight feels about that "Fraternity Pisser" credit, just for starters. At least Craig was a good sport about watching this dud, even

Overall score: 3
QQQ score: 3

SHOW NOTES

Special Guest: Craig Calcaterra.

]]> Craig Calcaterra joins us this week for a very sports-movie-y sports movie: Everybody's All-American, a "one wedding and one long funeral" look at a college gridiron star's early peak and interminable fall that doesn't know which set of Quarterback Agonistes clichés it wants to use, and recycled Sophie's Choice's Stingo as Timothy Hutton's Cake, with merkinacious results. The three of us had a lot of questions -- why the hot cousin is A Thing in the Quaidverse, why the movie isn't about Jessica Lange's Babs and Carl Lumbly's Blue, and how Wayne Knight feels about that "Fraternity Pisser" credit, just for starters. At least Craig was a good sport about watching this dud, even

Overall score: 3
QQQ score: 3

SHOW NOTES

Special Guest: Craig Calcaterra.

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