Welcome to The Movie Gumshoes! Step into The Junk! A dusty little town where reality and myth overlap, and two detectives chase down the biggest cases in cinema.
In Movie Gumshoes, Jared and Jonathan (with the occasional visit from Dirty Deborah and Jason Stackman) investigate movies, digging through evidence of how they got made, who’s responsible, and whether the film deserves to be released to the public eye or redacted forever.
Every episode is an adventure, packed with real research, wild trivia, and detective-style banter that makes every case a ride.
Jonathan barges into the police impound, interrupting Jared in the middle of inventory with a strange discovery: a VHS tape he found hidden inside the confessional booth of a church on Rear Alley. There’s no description, no movie title, and no explanation for why it was concealed there, just one word handwritten across the label: LEGION. Naturally, they play it. At first, the mysterious tape appears to be nothing more than a bootleg copy of The Exorcist III, but that only raises more questions. Why would someone hide this particular movie inside a church confessional, and why label it Legion? Jared and Jonathan fire up the impound’s computer looking for answers and discover that Legion was William Peter Blatty’s original story, the 1983 novel that ultimately became The Exorcist III. What begins as an investigation into the strange history behind the movie soon suggests that the story of The Exorcist III may be almost as mysterious as the film itself. But one question remains: if they’ve figured out why the tape says LEGION… why was it hidden in the first place? And perhaps this mysterious VHS still has a few secrets left to reveal.
4 Sept 2026
Case File: "Diamond City" - Buddy (2026)
Still serving out their probationary exile from the precinct, The Movie Gumshoes remain stuck manning the police impound lot, a punishment Jared and Jonathan have somehow interpreted as more of a loose suggestion than an actual job assignment. This week, they ditch their post long enough to sneak over to the DinoPlex for a screening of Buddy, the 2026 supernatural black-comedy horror film from director Casper Kelly. When they return, however, Dirty Deborahcasually insists she went with them and watched the entire movie by their side—something neither Gumshoe has any memory of happening. Jared becomes intrigued by Deborah’s story, which immediately sends Jonathan into a jealous spiral. Unwilling to let Dirty Deborah become Jared’s new favorite investigative partner, Jonathan decides the only reasonable response is to prove that he understands Buddy on a level Deborah never could. With absolutely no preparation and even less evidence, he launches into an increasingly elaborate conspiracy theory about who or what Buddy really is, using the movie’s major plot points as “proof” while desperately trying to impress Jared. What begins as petty jealousy soon becomes a full-blown paranoid case file in which every character is suspicious, every coincidence is deliberate, and Jonathan may accidentally uncover the true meaning of Buddy, or, much more likely, reveal that probation at the impound lot has finally broken his brain.
22 Aug 2026
Case File: "AC/DC" - Maximum Overdrive (1986)
It’s a dark and stormy night at the police impound yard.
After getting kicked out of the precinct, The Movie Gumshoes, Jared and Jonathan have been reassigned to the graveyard shift at the department’s impound lot. Surrounded by wrecked cruisers, seized vehicles, and rows of twisted metal, they figure the worst thing they’ll have to survive tonight is boredom.
Then, through the pouring rain, an unexpected visitor arrives.
An Interpol special agent on a top-secret mission to stop an international human-trafficking operation has been sent to the impound yard to retrieve an unmarked loaner vehicle.
There’s just one problem.
The Gumshoes have absolutely no idea where it is.
Somewhere among hundreds of wrecks, confiscated cars, and questionable police paperwork is the agent’s ride and he needs it now.
Jared and Jonathan promise they’ll find it.
Eventually.
Because first, they have some unfinished business of their own: investigating Stephen King’s insane 1986 cult classic, Maximum Overdrive.
So while an increasingly impatient international agent waits for his car, the Gumshoes settle in for a night of killer trucks, homicidal machines, AC/DC, and one of the strangest movies ever committed to film.
The storm is getting worse. The agent is running out of time. And the Gumshoes still have a movie to finish.
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
4 ratings
Spotify
4.8 / 5
19 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 12 / 100
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YouTube
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Engagement
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