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The Nice Hog! Newsletter - Vol 69 - 08.08.2025
Welcome one and all once again to the Nice Hog! Newsletter, your number-one source for all things Nice and Hog! This week, as per usual, we got yer brand-new VODs, comicz, mixtape, and more! We’ve also got the latest news on our active productions, updates on screenings, and a special musical surprise. Read ahead for all this and other extra-Nice stuff, direct from us!
News & Announcements
SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT has been named an Official Selection of DIY Film Fest’s STRANGE SHORTS 2025. SoCal Nice Hog!-heads will have a chance to catch SECRET MENU at the world famous Art Theater in Long Beach, California Friday, August 8th at 8:45pm.
Tickets are available now, the final programming schedule will drop next Friday!
You can also catch SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT in New York on Sunday August 10th at 7:30pm as part of a special VIDEODOME JR. lineup curated by Dylan Mars Greenberg, and presented in collaboration with Sleazy Femme Film Fest and Night Owl Video! Co-director SG Egan will be in attendance; grab tickets here and come say hi!
ICE CREAM SOCIAL, a 48 Hour film project directed by Erin Alexandra White and featuring Frankie, Steve and Miranda on crew, has its WORLD PREMIERE next Monday, August 11th at Regal Cinemas North Hollywood in Los Angeles.
Tickets are on sale now - we’re in Block A!
COMING SOON from Nice Hog! Productions and Writer/Director Autumn Palen: BREAKFAST AT BERGHAIN, an original fever dream comedy short.
We’ll be entering the second half of production for BREAKFAST AT BERGHAIN in August and we want to cast you! Please reach out at info@nice-hog.com to get involved.
Where is Your VOD Now? Fangs Out Edition
Today marks the release of INFINITE MUSIC, a brand-new old lo-fi album by SG Egan and produced by PRPL PPL. Comprising polished-up and repurposed songs recorded circa 2018-19 by Sabrina on a Tascam PortaStudio 424 MKi, the songs were remixed and remastered by her and Steph Moon this year, recovering an "almost-lost" LP -- and marking the first full-length release out under her own name. Recommended for the narrow intersection of Ween fans and Broadway aficionados (BroadWeen, for short), the 10-track art-rock album is available to stream now exclusively on Bandcamp!
MOTORAMATHON - Episode 28
The Infamous Sex Scene Episode
with Nina Dicker
This week, writer/comedian Nina Dicker returns to the podcast to join Frankie & Steve to talk about the censorship of her book TANGERINE VAGINA, the original trailer for Tom Cruise's THE MUMMY with major audio flubs, and we get down and dirty with the infamous MOTORAMA sex scene.
And, of course, they break down MINUTE TWENTY-EIGHT of the 1991 not-quite-a-cult-classic movie MOTORAMA, directed by Barry Shils, written by Joseph Minion and produced by Donald P. Borchers, (who called this podcast “awesome”.)
MOTORAMATHON is the world's first (and number one) live podcast dedicated to breaking down the movie MOTORAMA one minute at a time.
Join hosts Frankie Campisano, Steve Autore and their funny friends live every Wednesday night on Twitch.TV/NiceHogLIVE.
Audio episodes are now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major pod platforms. Full video episodes stream free on our YouTube channel. Fans of the show can send in questions, comments, complaints, or whatever, really by emailing the show at pod@nice-hog.com with subject line ‘MOTORAMA’.
Just Made You Say Underhog
Steve Autore, Carson Bailey, Evan Burdett, and Frankie Campisano take on the tragi-comic absurdity of Toby Fox's UNDERTALE. And it turns out Frankie might actually be a little bit psychic.
Tune into our next UNDERTALE stream, Monday nights at 7pm PT live on Twitch!
Kisses for Chicken - Episode 5
Last Valentine’s Day we fell in love with Colonel Sanders and had a whirlwind romance with Chicken Cupid himself. Return to the love life of Chef Grata Tuity as we take on KFC’s Colonel Sanders dating simulator I LOVE YOU COLONEL SANDERS.
Episode 5 of KISSES FOR CHICKEN, our Let’s Play series is above - edited by Carson Bailey. Check back next week for the series finale!
Comicz Corner
Mixtape
“Some things I do for love, some things I do for money. It ain’t like I don’t want it, it ain’t like I’m above it.”
Mixtape #69: Nice Mixtape
Curated by Dope Francis
Songs and feelings and feelings and songs.
“Daydream” - Empty Houses
“Bluebird” - Sunset Rollercoaster
“Change Your Mind” - Dave Mackinder
“Whiplash” - Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties
“I Don’t Like Who I Was Then” - The Wonder Years feat. Ryland Heagy
“Jersualem, New York, Berlin” - Vampire Weekend
“Now I’m In It” - HAIM
“Dissolving” - The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
“Beam Me Up” - Alex G
“You’re Still a Mystery” - Bleachers
Submit your own mixtapes (up to 10 tracks) to mixtapes@nice-hog.com for a chance to be featured in a future newsletter!
This Week at the Movies
This week at the movies, you can choose between two movies that are sure to be Normal and Regular treatises on parenthood, intergenerational communication, and the supernatural.
On the one side you have FREAKIER FRIDAY, the legacy sequel to 2003’s FREAKY FRIDAY remake. From the trailer, it seems like Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis once again get into some body-swapping hijinks in this one, but in this one, there seem to be a couple other non-famous children in the mix for some reason in order to add an extra-dollop of narrative contrivance to the consciousness Round Robin-ing. At least it seems they’ve brought back Pink Slip as well to reprise their roles and rock out the jamz, so that should be worth the price of admission alone.
On the other hand you can catch WEAPONS, Zach Cregger’s follow up to BARBARIAN, a horror flick about 17 elementary school classmates that flee their family homes in the dead of night mysteriously (and simultaneously). Marketing’s played answers close to the vest. Are they operating under the influence of a supernatural eldritch entity? Is the real reason for running closer to home? As for us, we bet the kids are actually all sneaking out to see FREAKIER FRIDAY on opening night, because they’re big fans of Pink Slip’s seriously classic pop-punk number “Take Me Away,” and needed to see their triumphant return to the big screen ASAP.
In Case You Missed It…
We recently finished our Let’s Play HITMAN series SPY HOG! Please note the series finale is deeply disturbing, and not funny at all. Viewer discretion is advised.
Steve, Carson and Evan took on the mind-bending madness of THE STANLEY PARABLE!
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We’ll see you next Friday. Until then, may all your hogs be nice.