The Number One Movie in America
Film
BOX OFFICE GOLD, ONE SHOW AT A TIME!
Nearly every week, there’s a new NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN AMERICA. Let’s see how four decades of Americans have done at selecting movies, shall we?
In each new episode of THE NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN AMERICA, we’ll randomly select a movie that spent at least one weekend atop the box-office charts. Whatever it is, we’ll have to watch it. And tell you whether or not you should.
A rebranding of the longrunning review podcast “You Can’t Handle the Truth,” THE NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN AMERICA is Kahmeela Adams, Sean Collier, Robin Hitchcock and Aaron Kleiber. It is recorded at the iHeartMedia Podcast Studio in Pittsburgh.
Follow us! @Number1MoviePod @The_RuggedAngel @SeanCollierPgh @HitchDied @AaronKleiber
Contains Adult Language
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United States
Description:
BOX OFFICE GOLD, ONE SHOW AT A TIME! Nearly every week, there’s a new NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN AMERICA. Let’s see how four decades of Americans have done at selecting movies, shall we? In each new episode of THE NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN AMERICA, we’ll randomly select a movie that spent at least one weekend atop the box-office charts. Whatever it is, we’ll have to watch it. And tell you whether or not you should. A rebranding of the longrunning review podcast “You Can’t Handle the Truth,” THE NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN AMERICA is Kahmeela Adams, Sean Collier, Robin Hitchcock and Aaron Kleiber. It is recorded at the iHeartMedia Podcast Studio in Pittsburgh. Follow us! @Number1MoviePod @The_RuggedAngel @SeanCollierPgh @HitchDied @AaronKleiber Contains Adult Language
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@TruthPodcast
Language:
English
Episodes
55 Days at Peking
4/6/2026
A cast of thousands! Global intrigue! Thrilling battles! No really, we're supposed to believe that 55 DAYS AT PEKING is interesting! Sure, you haven't heard of this movie (we hadn't either), but we promise you should listen anyway.
Plus thoughts on THE DRAMA, THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE, THEY WILL KILL YOU, PROJECT HAIL MARY, MERCY and more!
Duration:00:57:56
Avengers: Age of Ultron
3/24/2026
All your favorite superheroes are here! Y'know, Hawkeye! Black Widow! Quicksilver! And your actual favorites, sometimes! Ten-plus years later, the second Avengers movie seems like a bit of a miss, even as of its subject matter remains depressingly relevant. Will our hosts declare Age of Ultron to be a Ragnorak-level Marvel hit, or a Dark World-esque miss?
Duration:01:03:52
Bonus Episode: NOMIA Oscars Live Reaction
3/16/2026
Live to tape from two coasts, the NOMIA hosts react to an Oscar night that gave both joy and heartbreak.
Duration:00:31:16
Event Horizon
3/10/2026
Nope, Event Horizon was not the number one movie in America. By virtue of pure dumb Bingo luck, Sean had the right to choose a movie from outside our list ... and he chose a weird, famously messy work of late-'90s cosmic horror. Will Sean introduce Kahmeela and Robin to an underappreciated gem, or will they be left hoping he doesn't hit that many Bingos ever again?
Plus, thoughts on SCREAM 7, THE BRIDE!, Robin's trip to the Academy museum, this week's Oscars and more!
Duration:01:11:50
Jumanji — The Next Level
2/24/2026
Saddle up your ostrich (or punch it) for a quick and wacky sequel to the sequel to JUMANJI! After the '90s version was dusted off the shelf for the massive hit JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, 2019's THE NEXT LEVEL was rushed into production. Will excessive character swapping, an infusion of stars and a zoo's worth of CGI beasts be enough to make this one work?
Plus, thoughts on RELATIONSHIP GOALS, GOOD FORTUNE, HOW TO MAKE A KILLING, NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, the TOP MODEL docuseries and more!
Duration:01:05:17
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2/17/2026
All your favorite Spider-People — the dinosaur, the cat, the horse and the rest — collide in the visually stunning SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE! Is it a masterpiece of cutting-edge animation ... or just half a movie?
Plus, let's talk about WUTHERING HEIGHTS, SEND HELP, F1, the live PARANORMAL ACTIVITY show and more — including Kahmeela's big night out with John Cusack!
Duration:01:11:28
West Side Story (1961)
2/4/2026
As Robin puts it: Romeo/Juliet in Amer-i-ca! The classic musical WEST SIDE STORY won 10 Oscars and became a cultural touchstone. Will our hosts — two of whom claim not to be into musicals — be swept up in the romance, the snapping and the dance fighting?
Plus, our thoughts on SEND HELP, MERCY, MIRACLE: THE BOYS OF '80, HEATED RIVALRY, SHADOW FORCE and more!
Duration:01:20:21
200th Episode! A Few Good Men
1/19/2026
For our 200th episode, we dive deep in show lore and come up with the fact that Sean has never seen A FEW GOOD MEN. Will our hosts be impressed or sort of nod off at all the legalese and military jargon?
Plus, in the segment NAMED FOR THIS MOVIE, let's talk about If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, The Housemaid, Marty Supreme, Song Sung Blue, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and more!
Duration:01:28:57
Best Movies (and NOMIAs) of 2025
1/5/2026
With the year over and movie-award ceremonies fill our Sunday nights, it's time to name our favorite films of 2025! Will the hosts have a consensus pick? Will anyone pick anything truly unhinged? Will anyone make a disapproving noise into the microphone? (Yes on that last one.)
Plus, movies we'd like to punch, our most anticipated films of 2026, a couple of quizzes and more!
Duration:01:07:06
Elf
12/18/2025
It's a beloved holiday classic that's everywhere this time of year. So of course one of our hosts absolutely shreds it. (We're sorry.) Even so, ELF is loaded with great bits and memorable performances; how will it fare against our own favorite Christmas movies?
Plus, let's talk about RENTAL FAMILY, OH WHAT FUN, NUREMBERG, KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR and more!
Duration:01:10:10
The Way We Were
12/9/2025
Misty, watercolored memories! Of what, we ask? Protesting and awkward dates, mostly. Verifiable movie stars BAR-bra Streisand and ROB-ert Redford have a relationship! It has, you know, ups and downs. And ... that's a movie, we guess? The important thing is that Robin's grandfather-in-law gives his opinion!
Stay tuned for our thoughts on WICKED: FOR GOOD, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY, HAMNET, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and many more!
Duration:01:12:54
Ghostbusters (1984)
11/18/2025
Who you gonna bust? Callin' makes me feel good! Wait, that's wrong. Anyway: GHOSTBUSTERS ... is Ghostbusters. It requires no context or further comment. And yet, here we are! Will anyone dare to take a shot at this sacred, spooky cow?
Stick around for discussions of FRANKENSTEIN, THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, TRAIN DREAMS, JAY KELLY, THE RUNNING MAN and many more!
Duration:01:14:53
The Natural
11/3/2025
Some people call THE NATURAL the best baseball movie of all time. They're wrong — but how close are they? Sean picked this one to answer that very question. Don't expect an answer on the whole gambling scheme, though. It's murky.
Plus, let's talk about SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, BLUE MOON, BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER, THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR and more ... including, somehow, PARASITE.
Duration:01:07:01
Final Destination: Bloodlines
10/27/2025
Death! Watch out! It's everywhere! Could that be Death? Is Death over there? Probably! Certainly in FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES, this year's massive hit and the most successful film in the franchise! We go back to the beginning and cover FINAL DESTINATION in the process — and what? Why are we all crying?
Plus, let's talk about BLACK PHONE 2, AFTER THE HUNT, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (the new one), GOOD BOY, THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 and more! Including, unfortunately, TRON: ARES.
Duration:01:11:38
What Lies Beneath
10/13/2025
It's a Hitchcockian thriller that's also a spooky ghost party that's also a sad meditation on motherhood! Do these things go together? Who cares, Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer are here! Let's go back to the summer of 2000 (feels like the autumn of 94) for WHAT LIES BENEATH!
Plus, let's talk about One Battle After Another, Roofman, Him, Highest 2 Lowest, The Long Walk, The Smashing Machine and more!
Duration:01:04:58
The Ring
9/29/2025
If you watch this tape — what? A tape. It's like a DVD but older. ... A DVD is a streaming movie that you, like, hold in your hand. Never mind, THE RING scared us silly 23 years ago, but after a hundred imitators, can it still kick off spooky season with a shriek? (The horse-on-the-boat sequence sure can.)
This week's recommendations: Robin enjoyed MEGADOC, and she enjoyed SPINAL TAP II more than Sean, who didn't like it nearly as much as he liked HIM, which was more than most people! It's like a logic puzzle! Kahmeela gives a soft recommendation to WEAPONS.
Duration:01:03:05
The Secret of My Success
9/15/2025
We're livin' 25 hours a day! Or, as Robin says, 14 max. But still! We're trying to draw life lessons from this Michael J. Fox comedy, which teaches us how to be seduced by the boss's wife even if she's your relative (by marriage) and how to enjoy the little things, like a corner office with a really big couch.
This week's recommendations: Robin raves about HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, Kahmeela sits down with PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF and Sean has a whole TED Talk about Epic Universe.
Duration:00:59:34
8 Mile
9/2/2025
Look. If you only had one shot or one opportunity to ... what, exactly? Eh, it doesn't matter, because 8 MILE is a pretty good watch! Join Papa Doc, Cheddar Bob, Future and Lotto — oh yeah, and Eminem (sorry, B. Rabbit) — for a sports movie about stage fright!
This week's recommendations: Sean wants to live in DOWNTON ABBEY. Robin is entirely fine with THE MONKEY. Kahmeela finally watched JOHN WICK.
Duration:00:56:49
2 Fast 2 Furious
8/25/2025
Fast? Sure. Furious? Debatable. Rat? One, and it's a doozy. The vroom-vrooms and the pew-pews relocated to South Beach for 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS, the movie that would begin sowing the seeds for a billion-dollar franchise ... without actually showing any of the flair that would lead to that success!
This week's recommendations: Sean and Robin agree on WEAPONS, Sean puts in a vote for NIGHT ALWAYS COMES, Kahmeela likes COMPANION and Robin goes back to JUDGMENT NIGHT. Plus: teen crushes revealed!
Duration:01:07:35
Where the Wild Things Are
8/5/2025
We're gonna sleep in a real pile, unless you invite Bob and Terry! (We promise that sentence makes sense.) Spike Jonze's imaginative, decidedly feelings-heavy take on WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE wasn't for kids (or, necessarily, wide audiences), but it resonated with Millennial viewers. Which one of our panel will cry about it a little? The answer may surprise you!
Recommendations: Sean and Robin loved THE NAKED GUN. Kahmeela thinks you should feel free to watch DROP and 28 YEARS LATER. Sean thinks the internet is being way too hard on the new I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.
Duration:01:07:19