Best Summer Camp Movies

Episode 43: Summer Lovin’ at Camp Donchawananooky

May 26th, 2017 Episodes J

Rise and shine, campers! It’s another beea-utiful day at Camp Donchawananooky and your counselors, Q & J, have a lot of fun activities planned for you. First, they have “Topless 5,” where they count down their Top 5 Summer Camp movies of all time, while not wearing shirts! Relive summer romances, epic pranks, and animals wearing parachutes to get you in that good time mood. Your…

Best 90s Kids' Cartoons

Episode 41: Eiffel Towering on a Saturday Morning

May 12th, 2017 Episodes J

Alright boys and girls, it’s time to put away your toys and network programming and dive into the world of 90s kids’ cartoons! Because, podcasters gotta do what podcasters gotta do, and on this episode Q & J gotta break down the Top 5 kids’ cartoons of the 1990s. We dust off our “Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy” vinyls and spend a few hours bathing in the nostalgia…

Book-to-Movie Adaptation

Episode 40 – And Other Stuff Too: Book-To-Movie Adaptations

May 5th, 2017 And Other Stuff Too J

Do you even read books, bro? You know, those things made of paper that used to be in libraries before Amazon and the Kindle were invented. Well, at High Five: The Podcast we love it when we can skip a book and just watch the movie instead (like we did in high school), but that doesn’t mean we excuse it when a movie adaptation of…

Best Coen Brothers Movies

Episode 39: The Coens Abide, Dude

Apr 28th, 2017 Episodes J

This is a true story. The events depicted in this podcast took place in a mysterious Writer’s Room in 2017. At the request of the hosts’ wives, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the brain-dead, the rest is presented exactly how it occurred. It’s a little-known, but true, fact that when jingle writers wrote the phrase “Double your pleasure, double your fun,”…

Best One Season TV Shows

Episode 37: One Season for a Reason?

Apr 14th, 2017 Episodes J

You can call them One Season Wonders or Single Season Superstars, just don’t call them late for dinner……or say they “got canned for a reason,” because these are the Top 5 One Season TV Series. On this episode, J & Q spend some time exploring why some of the best TV shows in history only lasted one glorious season (spoiler alert: most of the time…

Denzel Washington

Episode 35: Denzel, Ma Belle

Mar 31st, 2017 Episodes J

If there’s anything we love at High Five: The Podcast, it’s long walks on the beach, a warm tray of Bagel Bites right out of the oven, and Denzel Washington. Once we get started talking about D-Wash (that’s what we call him because we’re on a better-than-first-name-basis), it’s hard to stop. On this very special episode, Q and J break down the Top 5 Denzel…

Best TV Musicals

Episode 29: Once More, With High Five: The Musical

Feb 17th, 2017 Episodes J

Who put the ram in the ramalamadingdong? J & Q, that’s who! You’d better warm up that herbal lemon tea and do your vocal exercises, because the guys are kicking off their TV talk by breaking down the Top 5 TV Musical Episodes of all time. They cover all the right notes and there’s not a Glee episode to be found (suck it, Glee). What’s…

Best Movies of 2016

Episode 27: F?$k You, 2016!

Feb 3rd, 2017 Episodes J

Well, that sucked! Q and J celebrate the garbage fire that was the year 2016 the only way they know how, talking about their movies. The guys comb through the cinders of celebrity deaths and political unrest to point out which movies made the biggest impact on them throughout the year. Keep in mind, these aren’t the BEST movies of 2016 (since J and Q…

Oscar Snubs

HF Hiatus Replay: The Snubbening

Jan 28th, 2017 Episodes J

Missing High Five: The Podcast? We miss YOU! So, while we are on a short High Five: Hiatus in between Season 1 and the upcoming (Feb. 3rd) 2nd Season debut, we would like you to enjoy one of our now widely renowned and highly sought after episodes. For this Hiatus Replay we went back to our very early indie Oscar bait roots. Before we sold…