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Talking Figgy Pondo: Mixed Nuts and Mazes and Monsters With Dylan J. Schlender

December 01, 2025 • Clifton Campbell, Marty Ketola • Season 3 • Episode 25

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In this episode, Dylan J. Schlender (from Reels of Justice) joins the podcast. He brings along the movie Mixed Nuts. Marty and Clif give Dylan the movie Mazes and Monsters to watch.

Clif and Marty return with special guest Dylan for a completely unhinged holiday double-feature: Mixed Nuts (1994) starring Steve Martin, and Mazes and Monsters (1982) starring a very young Tom Hanks.

The trio digs into why Mixed Nuts, with its massive ensemble cast, still feels chaotic and uneven, why the French original didn’t translate, and how the movie became one of the oddest entries in 90s holiday cinema. Then they turn to Mazes and Monsters, the infamous TV movie inspired by Dungeons & Dragons panic, filled with LARPing, melodrama and lots of spelunking.

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