The Top Shelf Video Podcast

Film to Table (Side Cast) Episode 12 - Sinners

Meet us down in the Mississippi Delta to watch the summer’s hottest blockbuster! Ryan Coogler weaves history, music and horror in his latest masterpiece, and Eli and Denise are eating it right up. The Juke Joint is a pretty exclusive spot but we’re hoping they invite us in…
 
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Episode 17: Invasion USA

This week, the boys go back to the Cannon Films library to watch another Chuck Norris classic. This one has it all: retired CIA agents, Soviet terrorists, alligator farms, swamp boats, tanks, and tons of explosions. Following up on a massive 1984 year in film, this 1985 movie is a video store classic, but does Chuck have it in him to get a second of his films on Top Shelf 
 
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Film to Table (Side Cast) Episode 11 - Civil War

Just in case the current political climate wasn’t stressful enough, let’s dive into fictional civil unrest! Today, we’ll shoot our way through Alex Garland’s Civil War, following some war journalists photographing their way across a nation divided. What’s a good food pairing for the dissolution of a nation? Let’s find out on Film to Table!
 
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Episode 16: Escape from New York

The boys are back for Season 2 of the Top Shelf Video Podcast and start with some of the employee favorites. The season kicks off with the John Carpenter classic Escape from New York. This iconic 80's helped shape Eli and Jaime and seeing it as adults the messages and themes of the movie have a different tone. Join the Eli and Jaime as they discuss the film and decide if Snake Plissken has the skills to make the Top Shelf.
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Episode 15: Coming Soon Season 2

The gang is back and working on Season 2, and for this week, we discuss a few films we are looking to cover in Season 2, along with some of the things we've been up to since the start of the year.
New episodes will start to drop on May 2nd!
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Film to Table (Side Cast) Episode 10 - Best of 2024

For the Season Finale of Film to Table, Denise and Eli discuss the year of 2024 in the cinema as the year provided a solid year of entertainment. They also discuss some of their favorite bites of 2024.
Film to Table will take a short winter break and will return in 2025!
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Episode 14 - Season 1 Finale

For the Season 1 finale, Jaime and Eli look back at the movies they watched for the initial season of the Top Shelf Video Podcast. The boys make a retrospective look at the movies they chose to be on the Top Shelf and a little history behind the show.
The show will take a short winter break but will return with more tapes to stock the video store in 2025
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Episode 13: Silent Night Deadly Night

The Top Shelf Video boys would not let the holiday day season go without a little company party so they hosted their first annual holiday party in the store exchanging gifts, enjoying some pizza, and having a movie-watching part of the seasonal classic Silent Night Deadly Night. This video store titan from 1984 might not have been the best movie to show at a company party but if you're gonna do something you might as well do it right. What did Jaime and Eli think of this seminal classic and is it enough to earn a spot on the Top Shelf? Grab a glass of eggnog or whatever your choice is this season and listen to our gift to you.
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Film to Table (Side Cast) Episode 9: Cuckoo

What lurks in the Bavarian Alps? This episode finds us in the dark forests of Germany. After a tragic loss, Gretchen moves an ocean away to try to connect with her father and his new family but instead finds ominous signs that something evil lurks in the woods. What is the eccentric philanthropist up to, and what does it have to do with her family? Is the threat out in the unknown, or right in front of her? Eli and Denise sample all that the German wilderness has to offer in this episode of Film to Table!
 
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Episode 12: Gremlins

The Top Shelf Video store is in the full holiday spirit with decorations and a VHS Christmas Tree, so there is no better way to spend the holiday than by watching some holiday classics and no better classic than the Joe Dante 1984 film Gremlins. You'll hear what Gremlins means to owners Jaime and Eli and their therapy session on this episode as kindertrauma reviles itself this week.  Will Gremlins have what it takes to make the Top Shelf and will did the firemen save the tamales from certain doom? Tune in and find out
 
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