Episode 96: Streets of Fire

No Story Is Sacred

In this episode we discuss the 1984 film Streets of Fire. You can watch it on Netflix, or rent it from Youtube, or Apple TV.

Content warnings for strong language, discussions of misogyny, quick rape mention, and our strange obsession with Willem DeFoe.

We reference or spoil: Fire Inc’s “Nowhere Fast”, “I was studying the blade” meme, Fire Inc’s “Tonight Is What It Means to be Young”, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, the fair folk, Batman: The Animated Series, Jim Steinman, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes radio series, Meat Loaf, Road to Hell, The Lighthouse, Willem DeFoe’s general existence, Ghostbusters, Lucifer tv show, In the Heights, Mad Max: Fury Road, Indiana Jones, Labyrinth, Tam Lin, The Witcher, Bonnie and Clyde, Thelma & Louise, The Iliad, The Warriors, Glee, El Mariachi, Six-String Samurai, West Side Story, Taken, “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Star Trek, The Star Trek Comedy Album, Banned from Argo by Leslie Fish, Cowboy Bebop, “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” by Meat Loaf, Cowboy Bebop “Anything for Love” AMV, Redline, Jeremy Jordan’s cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”

Also check out Kat’s The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine and Bren’s Select Start improv shows benefiting Arcade Comedy Theater.

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The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.