Great news, magic fans! Also, terrible news, magic haters! This week's episode features a *lot* of magic talk, so brace yourselves accordingly. This week, Luke and Andy are talking about Now You See It... (2005), a Disney Channel Original Movie about a wildly confusing reality TV show that aims to find the world's greatest kid magician, the world's greatest kid producer, and also possibly the world's greatest kid cameraman. Then it decides halfway through that actually, that's boring and it's ab...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 10
In a last hurrah for Halloween, we're back with a live episode that deals with two of the scariest things imaginable: vampires, and dating in your thirties. This week, Luke and Andy are sinking their teeth into Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire (2000), a Disney Channel Original Movie horror-comedy in which the Hansen kids become concerned they've set their mom Lynette up on a date with man who may be more of a bloodthirsty creature of the night than his dating profile suggested. Will the vampire g...
Nov 07, 2022•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 9
Spooky season keeps rolling on, podcast fans, and we're back with a Halloween DCOM about a rockin' mummy who can hip hop, be-bop, dance til you drop, and so forth. You get the idea. This week, Andy and Luke are talking about Under Wraps, the first ever DCOM, in which a group of young friends accidentally resurrect an ancient Egyptian mummy, who they must return to his sarcophagus before midnight on Halloween, lest his soul be lost forever. Will the kids reunite the mummy with his lost love? What...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 8
Spooky season is here, podcast fans, and we're celebrating the only way we know how - by watching a DCOM with the word Halloween in the title. This week, Andy and Luke are talking about Halloweentown, a seasonal story about a young girl called Marnie who discovers that her grandmother is a witch who lives in a magical place called Halloweentown, where it's Halloween all year round, and the residents are all monsters of varying levels of attention to detail, depending on how close they are to the...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 7
Ceetus-lupeedus, podcast fans, have we got a stellanarious episode of Mom Can't Cook! for you this week! Will it make you blow an O-ring? Yes, or possibly no, depending on what that means! This week, Andy and Luke are talking about Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, a DCOM set in the futuristic year 2049, in which Zenon Kar, a 13 year old girl who lives on a space station, is grounded on Earth where she discovers a nefarious plot that threatens her friends and family back in space. Can Zenon thwar...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 6
UK based podcast fans! Want to come and see a live recording of the Mom Can't Cook podcast? Well good news! On Sunday, 30 October 2022 you can join Andy and Luke at the Loading Bar in Stoke Newington, London, for a live Halloween recording of the Mom Can't Cook! podcast. They'll be sinking their teeth into Mom's Got a Date With a Vampire (2000), a Disney Channel Original Movie horror-comedy in which a group of kids become concerned they've set their mom up on a date with man who may be more of a...
Sep 20, 2022•5 min
Prepare for another totally nectar episode of Mom Can't Cook! podcast fans, because this one goes richter at Backdoor, East Coast style. This week, Andy and Luke are talking about Johnny Tsunami, a DCOM sports film in which a young surfer moves from the sunny beaches of Hawaii to the frozen peaks of Vermont, where he becomes embroiled in a bitter turf war between the preppy skiers of Skyline Academy, known as "Skies", and the scrappy snowboarders of Maple Valley School, known as "Urchins". Can J...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 5
Imagine turning thirteen and, along with the rest of the trials and tribulations of growing up, you also have to deal with turning into a fish. This week, Andy and Luke are talking about The Thirteenth Year, a coming of age story in which young swim team star Cody Griffin discovers that his real mother is a mermaid, and that he's turning into a fishboy with such telltale fish characteristics as flippers, the power to stick to walls(?) and the ability to shoot electricity out of his mouth(??). Wi...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 4
What would happen if a spoiled Hollywood phoney had to spend a month working on a ranch in Montana? Probably not this, which is to say, the Disney Channel Original Movie Horse Sense. In Horse Sense, self-absorbed rich kid Michael is sent to work on his younger cousin Tommy's Montana ranch, to learn about hard work, and real people, and what dicks everyone in Montana is to self-absorbed rich kids named Michael. Will Michael learn that there's more to life than flashy cars and hot movie stars, lik...
Aug 15, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 3
Do you think Knives Out would have been a better movie if Daniel Craig was violently possessed by a dog every six to eight minutes? Then do we have the film for you! This week, Andy and Luke are talking about You Lucky Dog, a murder mystery/body horror nightmare in which a fraudulent dog psychic moves into a mansion to interpret the wishes of Lucky, a dog whose owner, Mr. Windsor, died leaving him an enormous fortune. But will he be able to save Lucky from the scheming of Windsor's greedy family...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 2
Join your hosts Luke Westaway and Andy Farrant for their brand new podcast Mom Can’t Cook! in which they attempt to salvage something, anything from the fact that they’ve watched every single Disney Channel Original Movie from the late 90s and early 2000s. This week’s movie is Smart House, in which a young boy wins an intelligent house of the future, which starts off by stealing some of his blood, and then things go downhill from there. If you’ve watched Smart House and have your own thoughts, e...
Jul 18, 2022•58 min•Ep. 1
