Zetus Lapodcast: The Complete Oral History Of Disney Channel Original Movies

Hana Michels returns to the pod to discuss HATCHING PETE, a movie about having allergies and dressing up like a chicken. No, really. These movies truly feel like a parody of themselves at this point.

King of fancy brunches and branded content Evan DeSimone stops by to talk about The Hannah Montana Movie and a streaming service that if we mentioned it by name, a bot posing as a member of their PR team would send us an email.

A gaggle of my favorite high school friends visited my apartment in sunny California in their swim trunks and flippy floppies to talk TEEN BEACH MOVIE, growing up in Glendale, body image issues, and the unique joy of drinking a strawberrita in a pool.

Writer Lora Thompson comes back to talk about THE CHEETAH GIRLS 2, the love of Tom Cruise's life, and all the celebrities we lost in the great cull of 2015. 

Reigning queen of all media Sara DeNatalie (@saramallen) is back to talk about the sequel to Twitches...well, almost. We don't talk about it at all. It's the biggest nothingburger of a movie of all time. We mostly just talk about how she's in Scranton right now and she needs to feel God in a Chili's tonight. Support her Gofundme so she can feel God in that Chili's. https://www.gofundme.com/i-wanna-feel-god-in-that-chilis

Award-losing  third place winning producer of children's content Jared Cohen comes on the pod to discuss the Johnny Tsunami sequel that taught us all the meaning of the phrase "be careful what you wish for," Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board. More like Back on *BORED* am I right? High five!

Just like that, we're already to the second of 4 (5?) High School Musical films! I really liked it! I know, right? When does that happen? My guest, Hyper RPG's @DrunklyRomantic, is not a huge fan. We spend more time talking about my move to LA this week, Twin Peaks and whether or not I should ditch this podcast in order to talk to my mom more.

Comedian Kelly Ryan (@KayArePea) comes back to the pod to talk about JUMP IN!, Corbin Bleu's beautiful hair, Daddy's secret sauce and how a North Carolina Mexican food restaurant's kids menu hot dog sent her to the hospital for two days.

What happens when Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers go to a summer camp for the rich and horny? My college pals and scene queens Dani and Sara join me in an extremely echo-y apartment to talk about CAMP ROCK, being MySpace famous and the meaning of the word "babussy." This is the kind of episode I'm going to get angry emails about, so before you click "send," I apologize in advance for being such a crummy white boy.

The co-host of What's Up Movie Surfers? and my cousin's sister (it's a whole complicated thing) Mallory Michelle stops by to talk about RETURN TO HALLOWEENTOWN, the kinks we definitely don't have and whether or not Sara Paxton is the Great Value brand Marnie Cromwell. While on hiatus, we finally figured out audio engineering!

Zach's good pal Shelby returns to talk about the dawn of a new era in Disney Channel Original Movies - Kenny Ortega's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. This episode is very uncomfortable because you can feel a mental breakdown coming at any moment and there was absolutely no motivation to edit out any of the shrieking loud cries for help. Everything's fine!

Queen of Broadway and soon to be all media Sara DeNatalie stops by to talk about TWITCHES, amazingly thoughtful birthday gifts, Duane Reade, the new film THE CIRCLE, drunk Shakespeare and MORE!

Nick Ross (@NickBossRoss) returns to talk about STUCK IN THE SUBURBS, the decision to prioritize single-payer healthcare over second-tier soda pop, and the technological capabilities of pre-iPhone smartphones.

Best of Friends host Jamie Woodham returns to talk ZENON: THE ZEQUEL and give Big Brother at Disney Channel several ideas for where they can take the franchise from here. Come back in a year and a half to hear us talk about Z-3PO, which Jamie insists ZENON: Z3 should have been called.

Author of RE. THE WASPS (https://www.amazon.com/re-wasps-John-Jack-OBrien-ebook/dp/B06XZYQ3LN) Jack O'Brien comes on the pod to discuss Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior. This was recorded one day before Zach began having an existential crisis and nearly deleted the podcast in its entirety, but didn't because he feels obligated to selling Jack's book!

FemFM host Kiki Hackett joins us to talk Now You See It, magic, intersectional feminism, and of course, it would not be an episode of Zetus Lapodcast if Zach weren't forced to get off his white boy shit. But seriously, everybody. You are entirely within your bounds to call out how I revel in my immature readings of things that aren't actually suggestive in nature, but go look on the @ZETUSLAPODCAST Twitter at that picture. LOOK AT IT.

Drew Mixon returns to discuss The Proud Family Movie, Zach is a messy bitch when it comes to discussing race and there's a huge ten minute chunk of the podcast missing where Zach unloads on a celebrity who was mean to him once, only to find out they're actually a very nice person.

Comedian Kelly Ryan got drunk and ate an entire sheet cake to prepare for our discussion about READ IT AND WEEP, a movie about everything I dream each time I send an intentionally provocative tweet. I was very tired when we recorded this because I'm a giant baby who goes to bed at 9 pm on weeknights.

Michael Foss joins us this week to discuss COW BELLES, drunkenly explaining to President Barack Obama the plot of Elijah Daniel's "Trump Temptations: The Billionaire and the Bellboy," what it's like to be friends with that dude from Something Corporate, and the scariest teenage girl ever committed to film.

Artist / co-writer of AT LEAST YOU'RE NOT THESE MONSTERS Danny Lacy joins us to talk about Life Is Ruff, a movie about child sociopaths to exploit and abuse an adorable dog that is constantly referred to as being some kind of scruffy mongrel. Pre-order Danny's book, which he made with friend of the pod Michael Levine: https://www.amazon.com/Least-Youre-Not-These-Monsters/dp/1942099223. It comes out March 14 and it's really good!