Everyone Is Wrong

♫ Here he comes, here comes P. Richards, he's a demon on wheels! He's a demon and he's gonna be chasing after someone! ♫ The someone(s) Peter is chasing after are the people who panned the Wachowskis' 2008 sensory overload big screen adaptation of the classic anime series Speed Racer. We hop in the Mach 5 and discuss how this is maybe the most live-action cartoon ever created, car punches, superb monkey acting, and how this movie lays some of the groundwork for both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Fast and Furious franchise. Go speed listeners, go!

Jess Abbott (Tancred) straps on her studded wristbands and throws down in a Warped Tour mosh pit to defend the honor of the maligned early 2000s pop punk hitmakers Good Charlotte. We deep dive into the band's hook-heavy scrappy appeal, the famous relationships of the Madden twins, and hit on topics ranging from a music video featuring members of NSYNC and Minutemen to a lot of Limp Bizkit chatter.

If you're gonna spy, you better spy hard. Before the release of Lightyear, Kevin Parker fires up his engine to defend the movie that is *by far* the worst-reviewed and received Pixar movie, 2011's Cars 2. While not defending it as a masterpiece, Kevin believes the Mater-driven car spy movie is easily the best entry in the much-maligned franchise. We go deep into the more creative world-building, the improved protagonist, the Cronenbergian body horror of these movies, their weirdly conservative undertones, and make fun of Lightning McQueen for just being a terrible character.

Take a hit of spice and travel to Arrakis, as ace musician/producer Erik Blood comes rushing over the horizon on the back of a sandworm to defend David Lynch's critically-panned box office flop, Dune. While the 2021 version may have garnered 10 Oscar nominations, Lynch's version took the biggest budget in film history at the time and delivered a story that was nearly impossible to follow with shoddy sci-fi special effects. But Blood is here to defend its honor as we discuss the film's production design, wild eyebrows, committed performances, Brian Eno, cat milking, and more (while also talking about Star Wars probably way too much).

With a new Baseball Hall of Fame class arriving, it's time to discuss a player who won't make it on his first year of eligibility - A-Rod. The decorated MVP and All-Star shortstop and third basemen for the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, and New York Yankees became one of the most reviled athletes in sports despite putting up astounding numbers. Spike Friedman returns to the pod to argue that Alex Rodriguez is underappreciated, anyone who hates him is an idiot, and that A-Rod is stealthily a working-class hero.

Before you resurrect The Matrix, you must first reevaluate it. A crew of Everyone is Wrong All-Stars (Jason Baxter, Alyson McManus, Ian Riggins, and Peter Richards) join forces to defend the Wachowski siblings' much-maligned 2003 sequels to their sci-fi action classic, The Matrix. We jack into the mainframe to discuss the films' trans allegories, their subversions of Chosen One archetypes, the evolution of Agent Smith, the movies' overt horniness, Dr. Cornel West, and how the franchise set the template for the MCU.

KEVIN!!! Parker is back this week. With Christmas season upon us and Disney+ recently releasing *another* Home Alone film (Home Sweet Home Alone), Kevin has set up an elaborate series of booby traps to protect his take that the reviled Macaulay Culkin-free Home Alone 3 is actually a delight. We talk about how spies improve most things, an A+ MacGuffin, sentient birds, Scarlett Johansson, and Kevin comes with the hottest take in Everyone Is Wrong history (which involves Home Alone 2).

Funky buttlovin', we're back! Just in time for this year's World Series, Nate Barmore returns to discuss the '90s kids baseball fantasy film, Rookie of the Year. We dive deep into this film's understanding of what it's like to be a 12-year-old, the majesty of baseball (and the absurdity of this movie's rules), Barry Bonds being 4x smaller than the movie's villainous slugger, odd ownership stakes, and boats that should really sink.

Is this another episode where Seth and Jason talk about sci-fi movies or are these merely projections of Seth and Jason conjured from dreams?!? This week we head to the mysterious planet of Solaris twice so that Jason can make the case that Steven Soderbergh's 2002 box office bomb starring George Clooney is actually superior to the "original" Soviet film from 1972, which has long been hailed as a sci-fi masterpiece. Along the way we talk a ton about pacing, another banger Cliff Martinez soundtrack, Animal Crossing art, shawls, Viola Davis, Insane Clown Posse, and maybe the most inexplicable driving sequence ever committed to film.

If there's one thing that Special Agent Dale Cooper and Kerry Sherman have in common it's their love for cherry pie. But while the FBI man loves a slice at the Double R Diner, this week's podcast guest prefers 'Cherry Pie,' the 1990 album by the band Warrant. While dismissed as the pinnacle of trash hair metal due to its titular dumb sexist single, we discuss how the rest of the album features surprisingly well-written tunes and Warrant was the victim of terrible musical trend timing. We also talk about Father John Misty, train songs, and how '80s hair metal is a lot like '00s emo.