The Uncanny Nice Hog! Newsletter
The Nice Hog! Newsletter - Vol 66- 07.18.2025
It’s Friday, and we’re back with another brand new Nice Hog! Newsletter. Featuring the latest episode of our comedy podcast MOTORAMATHON, the penultimate level of Hitman in our Let’s Play series SPY HOG!, and you can hear Frankie voice the alluring Colonel Sanders in Episode 2 of KISSES FOR CHICKEN.
Plus weekend movie recommendations, a weekly curated mixtape, brand new comicz and more!
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 the weekend of August 8th & 9th.
Tickets are available now, the final programming schedule will drop next Friday!
MOTORAMATHON - Episode 25
Summertime Sleepies with Phil Chernyak
This week, writer/director/editor extraordinaire Phil Chernyak joins Frankie & Steve to talk about sunglasses and dead birds washing ashore, waking up mid-MEGALOPOLIS, and the hard-to-find film NOTHING LASTS FOREVER.
And, of course, they break down MINUTE TWENTY-FIVE 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’.
Killin’ and Chillin’… Time for Spy Hog!
Frankie, Steve and Carson are back in the saddle for an all-new mission - four targets, one farm, a whole lot of separate para-military organizations with their own complicated security details.
Catch our next installment in our Let’s Play HITMAN series next Monday night at 7pm PT live on Twitch!
Kisses for Chicken
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 2 of our limited Let’s Play series is above - edited by Carson Bailey.
Comicz Corner
Mixtape
“Lost my shape trying to act casual. Can’t stop, I might end up in the hospital.”
Mixtape #66: Act Casual
Curated by Dope Francis
Relentless passion + enthusiasm.
“Cliff Diving” - +44
“Crosseyed and Painless (Live)” - Talking Heads
“True/False Lover” - Car Seat Headrest
“Hey, Ma” - Bon Iver
“Breakfast in America” - Supertramp
“She Explains Things to Me” - David Byrne
“Takes One to Know One” - The Beaches
“Now That I’m Back” - Frances Quinlan
“Dandelions” - Whitney
“Logan Hotel (Live)” - Alex G
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
It’s Ari Aster season. Mosey on down to EDDINGTON and relive the recent trauma of the pandemic in another fever dream flick from the mind that brought you HEREDITARY, MIDSOMMAR and BEAU IS AFRAID.
If you’re looking for something a little more straight down the middle horror, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER is also releasing this week.
They made another SMURFS movie, and it’s not that different from previous Smurfs movies. Except this time Rihanna’s in it. Get that bag, queen.
In Case You Missed It…
Big thank you to Juan Markos of The Hollywood Times for his review of SECRET MENU BEAUTY PAGEANT! Check out the full review by clicking here.
Have you had a chance to taste SECRET MENU for yourself? Why not leave us a review on Letterboxd!
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We’ll see you next Friday. Until then, may all your hogs be nice.