Travolting Podcast
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A weekly investigation into the strange filmographies of cinemas most fascinating careers.
Hosted by Jeff Sweeney and Stuart Elmore!
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Hosted by Jeff Sweeney and Stuart Elmore!
https://linktr.ee/Travolting
"ITS SMEEE!!!" Just kidding it’s actually Bob Hoskins in a very different role; a russian agent involved in a 19th century conspiracy! Robin makes an “explosive" appearance in this film as "The Professor".
August 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"ITS SMEEE!!!" Just kidding it’s actually Bob Hoskins in a very different role; a russian agent involved in a 19th century conspiracy! Robin makes an “explosive" appearance in this film as "The Professor".
From the director who brought you The Godfather Trilogy, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Megalopolis, comes a movie made for... well... nobody... I mean we don't even know if Jack is made for kids, adults, or both. Jeff, Stuart and Brian had a blast talking about the wild career of Francis Ford Coppola.
August 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
From the director who brought you The Godfather Trilogy, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Megalopolis, comes a movie made for... well... nobody... I mean we don't even know if Jack is made for kids, adults, or both. Jeff, Stuart and Brian had a blast talking about the wild career of Francis Ford Coppola.
From the director who brought you The Godfather Trilogy, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Megalopolis, comes a movie made for... well... nobody... I mean we don't even know if Jack is made for kids, adults, or both. Jeff, Stuart and Brian had a blast talking about the wild career of Francis Ford Coppola.
August 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
From the director who brought you The Godfather Trilogy, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Megalopolis, comes a movie made for... well... nobody... I mean we don't even know if Jack is made for kids, adults, or both. Jeff, Stuart and Brian had a blast talking about the wild career of Francis Ford Coppola.
Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the second direct to video sequel of the classic first movie, reprises Robin Williams in his famous role of the Genie. There's a couple of okay musical numbers but all in all it’s exactly what you'd expect from Disney's direct to video slop pipeline.
August 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the second direct to video sequel of the classic first movie, reprises Robin Williams in his famous role of the Genie. There's a couple of okay musical numbers but all in all it’s exactly what you'd expect from Disney's direct to video slop pipeline.
"Chewing gum helps me think!" "Sweetie, you're wasting your gum." Robin Williams and Nathan Lane play a couple who run a nightclub in Palm Beach, Florida when their son's fiance's conservative parents decide to drive down to visit. An instant classic with great laughs and a joyful message of love.
August 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Chewing gum helps me think!" "Sweetie, you're wasting your gum." Robin Williams and Nathan Lane play a couple who run a nightclub in Palm Beach, Florida when their son's fiance's conservative parents decide to drive down to visit. An instant classic with great laughs and a joyful message of love.
It's Stuart's greatest fear, getting Jumanji'd into one of his board games. But wait a second... is getting Jumanji'd when you go into the game or when the game comes out of the game to you? This 1995 adventure film stars Robin Williams and lived on a bunch of millennials VHS shelves!
July 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It's Stuart's greatest fear, getting Jumanji'd into one of his board games. But wait a second... is getting Jumanji'd when you go into the game or when the game comes out of the game to you? This 1995 adventure film stars Robin Williams and lived on a bunch of millennials VHS shelves!
A mouthful of a title but an important milestone of a film in queer cinema. Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo partake in a literal drag race across the country to compete in the Drag Queen of America contest. Along the way they inspire people and communities to be themselves!
July 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
A mouthful of a title but an important milestone of a film in queer cinema. Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo partake in a literal drag race across the country to compete in the Drag Queen of America contest. Along the way they inspire people and communities to be themselves!
This week's episode features a classic 90's rom com where Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore are suddenly expecting! Hugh Grant, the usual non-committal lover boy, has to come to terms with whether he's truly ready to be a father. Robin's role in this? Well obviously he’s the Russian gynecologist.
July 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This week's episode features a classic 90's rom com where Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore are suddenly expecting! Hugh Grant, the usual non-committal lover boy, has to come to terms with whether he's truly ready to be a father. Robin's role in this? Well obviously he’s the Russian gynecologist.
A journalist explores the early life and career of famed children's author Dr Seuss by retelling his most popular stories through the lens of significant cultural and sociopolitical events. Robin pops in for a short but heartfelt sequence where he reads the Cat in the Hat to his daughter, Zelda.
July 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A journalist explores the early life and career of famed children's author Dr Seuss by retelling his most popular stories through the lens of significant cultural and sociopolitical events. Robin pops in for a short but heartfelt sequence where he reads the Cat in the Hat to his daughter, Zelda.
In 1994 Robin joined forces with director Bill Forsyth and a characteristically game John Turturro to ask the question; what if Cloud Atlas was boring.
July 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
In 1994 Robin joined forces with director Bill Forsyth and a characteristically game John Turturro to ask the question; what if Cloud Atlas was boring.
If you were born in the 90's, this and/or Aladdin was your childhood introduction to Robin Williams. This heartwarming Chris Columbus movie has a dark spin among certain audiences, like Jeff.
June 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you were born in the 90's, this and/or Aladdin was your childhood introduction to Robin Williams. This heartwarming Chris Columbus movie has a dark spin among certain audiences, like Jeff.
Robin Williams reunites with his Good Morning Vietnam Director Barry Levinson in this blank check, first draft film that combines the ideas of Willy Wonka, Small Soldiers, and Apocalypse Now.
June 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Robin Williams reunites with his Good Morning Vietnam Director Barry Levinson in this blank check, first draft film that combines the ideas of Willy Wonka, Small Soldiers, and Apocalypse Now.
Robin at the height of his acting career arrives at one of his most iconic roles; Genie in Disney's 1992 animated classic Aladdin. Listen in as we discuss the role that introduced many of us to the work of Robin Williams, and how his performance remains timeless to this day.
June 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Robin at the height of his acting career arrives at one of his most iconic roles; Genie in Disney's 1992 animated classic Aladdin. Listen in as we discuss the role that introduced many of us to the work of Robin Williams, and how his performance remains timeless to this day.
Jeff, Stuart and special guest Alex Wilson talk about Robin Williams' first feature length animated role as Batty Koba in FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Batty is a bat, as the name would imply, whose mood erratically like channels on a TV. A perfect role for Robin.
June 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Jeff, Stuart and special guest Alex Wilson talk about Robin Williams' first feature length animated role as Batty Koba in FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Batty is a bat, as the name would imply, whose mood erratically like channels on a TV. A perfect role for Robin.
Before FernGully, before Aladdin, Robin does a single scene voice cameo for a children's animated short film based on the penguin who wished he could fly. "Technically" this is Robin's first ever animated role in his career.
May 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Before FernGully, before Aladdin, Robin does a single scene voice cameo for a children's animated short film based on the penguin who wished he could fly. "Technically" this is Robin's first ever animated role in his career.
Join us this week as we discuss the first of two collaborations Robin had with the legendary Steven Spielberg. Jeff, Stuart and guest Rebecca Johnson go toe-to-toe as they debate the ultimate question:
Is Hook good?
Is Hook good?
May 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Join us this week as we discuss the first of two collaborations Robin had with the legendary Steven Spielberg. Jeff, Stuart and guest Rebecca Johnson go toe-to-toe as they debate the ultimate question:
Is Hook good?
Is Hook good?
Robin's second collaboration with Terry Gilliam is set in grimy New York City and featured a disgraced DJ played by Jeff Bridges who befriends Robin Williams’ homeless hero on a quest to find the Holy Grail.
May 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Robin's second collaboration with Terry Gilliam is set in grimy New York City and featured a disgraced DJ played by Jeff Bridges who befriends Robin Williams’ homeless hero on a quest to find the Holy Grail.
Kenneth Branaghs second film he directed is a pulpy neo-noir thriller where Branagh and Emma Thompson must solve a murder mystery from their past lives before it repeats itself. Robin, who is only in three fairly short scenes, is playing a psychiatrist named Doctor Carlisle Cozy.
May 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Kenneth Branaghs second film he directed is a pulpy neo-noir thriller where Branagh and Emma Thompson must solve a murder mystery from their past lives before it repeats itself. Robin, who is only in three fairly short scenes, is playing a psychiatrist named Doctor Carlisle Cozy.
Known as "The Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown Movies", this film is full of fun surprises like baby Adam Sandler, psychopathic Tom Kenny, and many more that you'll have fun discovering as the boys and special guest Mac Sullivan talk about Bobcat Goldthwait's Shakes the Clown!
May 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Known as "The Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown Movies", this film is full of fun surprises like baby Adam Sandler, psychopathic Tom Kenny, and many more that you'll have fun discovering as the boys and special guest Mac Sullivan talk about Bobcat Goldthwait's Shakes the Clown!
Robin joins forces with Robert De Niro in this 1991 medical drama about a doctor who searches for signs of life in catatonic patients. Through the discovery of a new chance at life, the two Robs both find new meaning and purpose in what it means to be alive. This is a major Stuart tearjerker movie.
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Robin joins forces with Robert De Niro in this 1991 medical drama about a doctor who searches for signs of life in catatonic patients. Through the discovery of a new chance at life, the two Robs both find new meaning and purpose in what it means to be alive. This is a major Stuart tearjerker movie.
Trying to be Dog Day Afternoon at a used car lot, Cadillac Man struggles to succeed at comedy or drama. Though Robin still lands a few jokes, there's not enough craziness to justify itself.
May 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Trying to be Dog Day Afternoon at a used car lot, Cadillac Man struggles to succeed at comedy or drama. Though Robin still lands a few jokes, there's not enough craziness to justify itself.
Before the infamous celebrity "imagine" montage of the Covid-19 era, there was a TV special featuring every single famous actor speaking on the perils of Climate Change. Robin plays the "Every Man" learning ways to help the planet and humanity's future. This is the Earth Day Special.
May 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Before the infamous celebrity "imagine" montage of the Covid-19 era, there was a TV special featuring every single famous actor speaking on the perils of Climate Change. Robin plays the "Every Man" learning ways to help the planet and humanity's future. This is the Earth Day Special.
Oh Captain my Captain! Robin Williams enters the classroom as Mr. Keating, who teaches his class to seize the day and make their lives extraordinary. Dead Poets Society is a canonical film both for Robin’s career and as a classic revered and beloved by generations.
April 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Oh Captain my Captain! Robin Williams enters the classroom as Mr. Keating, who teaches his class to seize the day and make their lives extraordinary. Dead Poets Society is a canonical film both for Robin’s career and as a classic revered and beloved by generations.
Travolta is back with his sequel to Cash Out... HIGH ROLLERS!!! This movie is bad. Why are we still doing this?
March 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Travolta is back with his sequel to Cash Out... HIGH ROLLERS!!! This movie is bad. Why are we still doing this?
The boys close out this first era of Robin Williams career by summarizing his rise as a comedian to Good Morning Vietnam which showed the world that Robin Williams wasn't just a comedian anymore, he was a movie star.
March 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The boys close out this first era of Robin Williams career by summarizing his rise as a comedian to Good Morning Vietnam which showed the world that Robin Williams wasn't just a comedian anymore, he was a movie star.