I Dig Crazy Flicks Presents: Ninety For Chill - The Podcast with CatBusRuss - B-Fest 2025: #Beepfest with ThePoeticCritic

B-Fest 2025: #Beepfest with ThePoeticCritic

02/05/25 • 97 min

I Dig Crazy Flicks Presents: Ninety For Chill - The Podcast with CatBusRuss

CatBusRuss and ThePoeticCritic discuss B-Fest 2025. This is perhaps the best B-Fest line up CatBus has seen, and from the sound of it, the best his big sister has attended. And A&O Productions earned these accolades because the line up did not make it out to the public until at least an hour and a half before this 24-hour movie marathon kicked off. I Dig Crazy Flicks was able to be the last minute sponsor of B-Fest Traditions, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and "The Wizard of Speed and Time", but with that being the case, our host had low expectations for the kids at Northwestern to high jump over. He did not know that they were going to bring a pole vault.

If a movie was bad like "Truth or Dare? Critical Madness", it was so bonkers that you could not help but enjoy it with the crowd. If a film was morally corrupt like the gory Christian-exploitation flick, "If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?", the audience bonded together with the insults and riffs that all fascists deserve. And B-Fest did not miss when it came to nostalgia movies to amuse the audience. We're talking about the animated, "The Transformers: The Movie", JCVD and Dennis Rodman teaming up to stop Mickey Rourke in "Double Team", and two movies featured devious characters portrayed by B-Movie royalty, Mary Woronov.

It was a comedy of errors. A fire alarm went off as Pam Grier was smoldering. Sponsors were failing to show up when scheduled resulting in constant reshuffling of the line up. One of the DVDs refused to let the crew skip 20-minutes of no-budget movie trailers, resulting in them turning to YouTube to projecting it with pop-up ads. Honestly, when you are celebrating the best of the worst films ever made, this all seems quite appropriate.

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Clerks on "Clerks" with CouchManBakes

The host of "Baking While Baked", Andrew "Couchman" Tiede, returns to the show to discuss the feature that put Kevin Smith on the map, "Clerks". CatBusRuss and his guest determine this is a feature about trying to find one's own identity. And, since these two make a living as customer agents, how this film serves to remind them not to take life too seriously, and always have a true hustle too focus on. Unless slacking is something you find comfort in. Thus, this podcast may have been better titled, "The Book of Randle".

The conversation the two have serves as a chance to share their own war stories about customers and expectations set on them. It is interesting because Smith's film only seems crazy to those who have not been employed in the retail space. Every scene triggers trauma our two podcasters have endured, and they love the story for that. Smith made a film that shows the clerk is not alone, despite what the customers want us to think. Damn, more people need to see this movie so they know what kind of douches they choose to be.

And since craziness was brought up, Couchman and CatBus review how "Ninety For Chill" has evolved into "I Dig Crazy Flicks". They look back on some of the films they have discussed, and which ones are truly bonkers. An argument can be made for all of them after they stopped and determined that Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday from "Tombstone" are parallels to Joliet Jake and Elwood from "The Blues Brothers".

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#RewindWednesday: Ally's Jilted Trash-Movie Six Pack

The title of this episode is an extreme bit of hyperbole. Ally Higgins and CatBusRuss have been on great terms since their breakup five years ago. Our host cannot help but try to hit a Valentine's Day nerve. If you can endure some misfires by the stars of "Die Another Day", you have a great four movie marathon.

Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy has provided CatBusRuss with plenty of films and inspiration. This week, "NinetyForChill.com: The #Podcast" catches up with six of those features: "Gothika", "Hawk's Vengeance", "The Heist", "Invitation to a Suicide", "Juno", and "King of California".