Cool as Ice w/ Brian Huskey & Vanilla Ice (Classic)
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What makes “Cool as Ice” a bizarre 90s cult classic?
Imagine if James Dean was fresh instead of cool. It's Rebel Without a Cause with turntables and eight ball jackets. We saw cool as ice, so you know what that means.
Now it's time to work. How did this remain? We're gonna have a good time celebrate some failure, not just be the hate of you wonder how did this remain? Let's wallow in the mediocrity of some far art Perhaps we'll find the answer to the question, how did this get there?
Hello, people of Earth, and welcome to a very special edition of How Did This Get Made. We have a very special episode this week because not only are we talking about the vanilla ice classic, Cool as Ice, but we have an amazing guest in studio to talk about the film. That's right, the one, the only vanilla ice, but he's not going to be here for the entire episode, just for the last 15 minutes. So Enjoy that. It's coming up. But in the meantime, please welcome my fabulous co host, June Diane Rayfill. How are you, June?
Good. Hi, Pa.
And Jason Manzukas. How are you, Jason? What's happening? Uh we have a very special guest here in the studio today to talk about the movie. You've seen him on uh uh a a million different things, uh most notably uh and most recently Children's Hospital. Sure. Uh Brian Husky. Hi guys. Hi Brian. Hi Husky. Hi.
All right, let's get into this movie. I want to thank you for exposing me to art. You're welcome. This is very important film.
I honestly, when I was watching this movie for the first couple of minutes, I was like
Really? Really? Well what? Maybe you want to say for the first six minutes, which are the opening credits. I
timed it too. I was like, I gotta see how long that stopped it
right at the end of the credits like, Oh, a six minute credit sequence. Because I
kept on I was cooking dinner and so I kept on the side. We get it.
You're down. You don't have to brag so much about how you cook dinner.
I kept on thinking like, okay, I'm just gonna do this one thing while the opening credits is on. And then they came back and they were still Was it
Julian Carrots?
Yes, it's Julian Carrots, Salmon.
The I mean, but the opening is a a music video. That is like a thirty dollar music video. It's it's there's no production value there, and that's the leading point of your movie. There is like
no fewer than six legitimate m terrible music videos in this movie. Oh yeah. Oh
yeah.
I mean he's done better ones on MTV at this point too, right?
Yeah, it but it was at the height of like the nineties backlit, just like uh you know, shooting through an air vent fan that's flipping around so the lights flash and that one thing just had yeah, it was just crazy. Naomi
Campbell was singing back up with the thing. That's the thing, yeah. The Obi Candle
is singing back up and she gives like an opening you know, she's like one of the opening credits. Karen's and then she disappears. Yeah. And then she's done her job. And then she's done her job.
Well, I don't even understand because that opening they try to tie it to the movie. Like he I guess he performed at this club. Who knows? Yeah, who knows? Maybe. Because he's leaving that club in the first scene and then he like signs that autograph or or the girl gives him his number. Yeah, like the sticker. But the
big mystery of the movie is like what is his job? What is it? Like is he?
What is anything? This movie was through the looking glass from the word go. I literally was like
GO you mean?
Who and what is happening?
Well, it was like, okay, so they they they busted out in some warehouse space for like an
urban den.
Which is not really there's no audiences, mainly everyone dancing together. Everyone's in the
video and and dancing
under fire sprinklers. So it's kind of a fight fight club for dancing that he's part of. Yes. That he's part of. It's
called the little blade-esque
there. And then cut to beautiful, pristine, like Indiana countryside that you're just riding along the next one. Land
for days. I mean, as far as the eye can see. Well I was
like, they get on motorcycles and I was like, did they just ride to Nebraska?
What is it? Why are they there?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What makes “Cool as Ice” a bizarre 90s cult classic?
0:00–7:03
2
Why do the opening credits feel like a six‑minute music video?
7:03–13:51
3
How do the biker gangs and weird love story drive the plot?
13:51–22:05
4
What is the role of the witness‑protection subplot in the film?
22:05–29:03
5
How does Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography affect the movie’s look?
29:03–37:25
6
What behind‑the‑scenes stories does Vanilla Ice share about the stunts?
37:25–46:04
7
Did the filmmakers ever plan a sequel or continuation?
46:04–53:22
8
Why should listeners watch (or avoid) “Cool as Ice” today?
53:22–1:00:21