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1987’s Summer School stars Mark Harmon as physical education teacher and shiftless layabout Freddie Shoop, who is assigned to teach remedial English summer school to a bunch of misfits and outcasts! Along the way, it’s possible that the KIDS are teaching Freddie Shoop as much as he’s teaching them! There’s also Kirstie Alley and a dog named Wondermutt. And a very tiny bit of skateboarding. Blink and you miss it skateboarding. Still, enough skateboarding for Kevin and Mike to saddle up to discuss the Dave and Chainsaw of it all. So break out your peanut butter and jelly (bread is optional) and maybe a chocodile or two and tune into the latest exciting installment of GLEAMING THE TUBE! Theme music is by Kissing Kontest Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One Battle After Another, which recently won Best Picture at the Academy Awards, tells a sprawling story about generational struggle, the relentless pursuit of ideological change, and the personal cost of activism. It's also got skateboarding in it, so Kevin and Mike have dusted off their microphones to take it on. Theme music is by Kissing Kontest Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 American animated musical urban fantasy film that is also the most-watched movie ever on the Netflix platform! The film follows a K-pop girl group named Huntr/x who lead double lives as demon hunters; they face off against a rival boy band, the Saja Boys, whose members are secretly demons. And there is a tiny bit of skateboarding in the film during a Huntr/x video so Michael and Kevin, of course, watched this movie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back for spooky season with a discussion of the vampire classic The Lost Boys! There's not a lot of skateboarding in this one but there are a lot of rat-licking punks, trash cans filled with flames, greased up saxophone players, obnoxious comic book store workers, and Coreys. So many Coreys. Kevin and Mike discuss all of this along with where we think this movie fits into the pantheon of vampire movies and how much we both loved Sinners from earlier this year. Sleep all day, party all night, never grow old, never die. It's fun to be a skateboard podcast. Happy Halloween! Theme music is by Kissing Kontest Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1977’s Record City brings us into a day in the life of a California record store, its employees, its customers, and the participants in a radio talent show. Is this the worst movie Kevin and Mike have ever watched for GLEAMING THE TUBE? It very well might be. Come share our pain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2013’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by and starring Ben Stiller, is a visually ambitious reimagining of James Thurber’s classic short story with a surprisingly high amount of skateboarding during its runtime. Despite this, neither Kevin nor Mike were particularly fond of this particular movie. Discussed: A particularly terrible profile of Stiller in The New Yorker around the time of this movie's release, the great Rodney Mullen acting as Stiller's skateboard stunt double, the many, many things we didn't like about this film, and which Ben Stiller films we actually do like. Why bother with flights of fancy when you can occupy your brain with a new episode of GLEAMING THE TUBE?! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What can be said about The Karate Kid that hasn't already been said? How about: there's a tiny bit of skateboarding in it. Kevin and Mike wax on and off about that, the film's performances, the tenuous link between skateboarding and karate, and, or course, crane kicks. So many crane kicks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The year was 1991 and Hulkamania was running wild in cinemas across America with the release of Suburban Commando! The film stars professional wrestler Hulk Hogan as an outer space warrior of some sort who finds himself having to blend in on Earth while living with a suburban family. Shenanigans, as they say, ensure. Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, and Larry Miller are also in this nonsense. While it's true that the Hulkster does ride a skateboard in this film, Kevin and Mike lament having to watch something so terrible for the podcast. Kevin tells Mike a bizarre story about the time Hulk Hogan ran around the backstage area of the tv morning show he used to work on chasing a mouse, Mike and Kevin discuss a weird character they've been performing for each other since the late 90s, and we try and figure out if the special effects in this movie were made by a Video Toaster or an actual toaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Grease 2 brings us back to the Rydell High from the popular 1978 musical film Grease but this time instead of John Travolta and Olivia Newton John we’ve got a new set of Pink Ladies and T-Birds, including a young Michelle Pfeiffer in her first starring role! Pamela Adlon on a skateboard! The guy who played Rex Manning! Cool riders! Strange songs! It's a rare sequel that's better than its predecessor and this sure ain't one of them but we watched it anyway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Y2K from 2024 is an apocalyptic comedy science fiction horror coming of age film directed by Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney in his directorial debut. It follows a group of high school students who attempt to survive on New Years Eve when the year 2000 comes and all technology comes to life and turns against humanity. It's also got skateboarding! Kevin and Mike didn't like this movie all that much so spend a lot of time talking about skateboarder Eric Koston and his shoe line (which are referenced several times in the film), how much they hate rock music from the 1990s (particularly Limp Biskit), the time Mike gave Limp Biskit frontman Fred Durst a tattoo, and the time Kevin spent NYE 2000 hiding in a bathroom. It's one of those episodes, in other words. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kevin and Mike are back for 2025 to tackle a movie that's synonymous with skateboard culture - 1990's Pretty Woman! Learn the mysterious identity of the skateboarding teen who appears briefly in the film! Hear how we think the film has held up! Julia Roberts! Richard Gere! Jason Alexander! Opera! Is there anything this movie DOESN'T have? (Aside from a consistent tone, that is.) Find out in the latest pulse-pounding episode of GLEAMING THE TUBE! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dìdi is a 2024 coming-of-age film, written, directed, and produced by Sean Wang in his directorial debut. The film follows a 13-year-old Taiwanese-American boy as he navigates the challenges of adolescence, his relationship with his mother, and his love of skateboarding. In a departure for movies covered on this podcast, it's really good. Kevin and Mike discuss the film and then go on some weird semi-related tangents around deathbed summons and snack cakes, the Scottish pop band Belle & Sebastian (who are featured on the movie's soundtrack), and their own embarrassing adolescent memories. This episode is messy and all over the place, kind of like how being 13 years old feels like. So yeah, we meant to do that. It's conceptual. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1993's So I Married An Axe Murderer finds Mike Myers, hot off the success of the Wayne's World movie, playing a commitment-phobic beat poet who falls head over heels in love with a woman who may or may not have murdered her previous three husbands. There is a profoundly tiny amount of skateboarding in this movie, but that doesn't stop Michael and Kevin from discussing the movie, the career of Myers, the baffling use of an inferior cover version of "There She Goes", beat poetry as a career path and the skateboarding scene in San Francisco, CA (where the film is set.) So break out your most enormous cup of coffee, strike up the jazz band, and let's dig into So I Married An Axe Murderer! Piper down! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back! 2005's DECK DOGZ is an Australian film about three skateboarding teens who are trying to escape the law, school, parents, their demons and a couple of criminals to realise their burning ambition; to meet world class skating champion, Tony Hawk and compete in his skating competition. We watched the heck out of this terrible movie and also discuss the larger implications of what having Tony Hawk in your skateboarding film meant circa 2005. Our conclusion - go watch BMX BANDITS. At least that movie has a young Nicole Kidman in it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1995’s Hackers is a shockingly accurate portrayal of the rollerblading hacker subculture of the time and stars darn near everybody, most notably a skateboarding Fisher Stevens who plays an evil hacker called "The Plague." The film also stars Angelina Jolie in one of her first starring roles, Lorraine Bracco, and the dude who played Sick Boy in Trainspotting. Kevin and Michael discuss the film, the skateboarding, hackers they have known, that moment in early 90s Providence when people would declare "I'm not a raver! I'm a club kid!", and many, many other tangents that are both related and unrelated to this deeply silly movie. Hack the planet, y'all! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.