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Summer School
30:40|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
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One Battle After Another
34:43|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 KontestKPop Demon Hunters
20:28|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.The Lost Boys
23:05|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 KontestRecord City
26:12|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.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
29:15|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?!The Karate Kid
22:30|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.