Short Circuit 2

Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 5 a.m.

On this week's show, we're taking a deeply questionable trip through the streets of our hometown with 1988's Short Circuit 2, directed by Kenneth "big TV guy" Johnson.

  • Is this movie racist? (Spoiler: Yes. Yes, it is.) 
  • Who's got the worst fake Scottish accent in the history of cinema?
  • How come Steve Guttenberg and Ally Sheedy didn't wanna be in this one?
  • Why did Neth spend a good part of his childhood thinking he was in 1992's Emilio Estevez stinker Freejack
  • Precisely how little effort went into trying to disguise Toronto as NYC? 

*This episode was remastered in September 2021. No content was edited or altered in the process.*

Bad With Numbers is a weekly podcast from Toronto, Canada, presented by Neth Knowles, Laura Medeiros, Rodey Gozum and Megan Swaine. 

Theme music by Audiopop. 
Additional music by Sixtroke. 
Illustration by Laura Medeiros.