Rad (1986)
The boyz discuss Rad (1986).
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"They Uber to their shootings" was an amazing line that got stepped on. It fucked up my parallel parking!
I was the girl in the neighborhood. I am mostly not having trouble with the law.
37 years old and I’m still riding bmx, this episode is huge for me. Rodger’s, get yourself a bmx bike and start hitting up some of the local LA pump tracks, it’s good cardio. There’s a race track in Whittier too if you ever want to go check out a race, they’re pretty cool
What's a good used model to look out for?
Also…I met Bart Connor in 1986 at a Foot Locker at the Huntington Beach Mall (now demolished). He was signing sweet glossy pics of him in a leotard. Rad impacted my life in too many ways.
Great EP! Wild fact, the twins went on to write the first two Conjuring movies! As well as a made for TV movie directed by Craig. R. Baxley
Does anyone else remember that BMX bikes (or as well called them, "dirt bikes") had those little rubbery spikes on their wheels? Did they serve some sort of purpose?
Loved the bike talk 😆
Break the Ice is such a banger.
Hell yeah
My first bike though was a sweet BMX bike, mom got it from rummage sale. I didn't know what I had til an older kid on my block told me my bike was awesome. I wasn't rich but I always had a dope bike and my mom let me go out on my bike all day.
Man, my new expensive bike got stolen 2 weeks ago, then the action boyz do 2 bike movies in a row. Left it at the same train station I always do while I go to day job, where CTA employee is at 24/7. They came with a grinder and had to cut my thick lock twice. I'm going used next bike.
Secret of Roan Inish
Came here to say this
Great ep!
I really enjoyed when Stanger fixated on the phrase “cartoonishly ignorant.” I fucking hate internet-isms like that. Hugs and kisses
Gnarly stunt - the motorcycle loop fail in Earthquake.
Did the boyz break up Keith and Nicole?
I read all the comments to make sure no one beat me to it, but Ren's voice and strange accent was based on Peter Lorre. I thought it was supposed to be Mexican too as a child, but no, it's refugee from the Nazis, foil to Humphrey Bogart, child killer in "M", Peter Lorre. (Stimpy was based on Larry from the Three Stooges, in case anyone needed closure on that)
https://youtu.be/Ie_0g-Rg3KI?si=9KbTHde3hAzdK6eM You're welcome
Talk of the botched stunt compilation reminded me I had forgotten to upload this particular fall. Thought it would be of interest to the janitors. Pretty good bounce. https://youtu.be/T_iMG43AGEI
RE: gnarly stunts, don’t forget the extra in Gymkata that gets fully trampled by a horse
Cru is rad (my tshirt says so). 90s punk summation of our new favorite Sportstember flick. I saw Rad in the theatre, and I never got too far from it (God help me) https://youtu.be/VQkn9EsK_js?si=w8FKK7sHZ7y680je
everyone knows i’m hardcore team stanger. everyone knows that. but jesus dude. you don’t know what forks are. every bike in existence has forks. it’s what holds your front wheel to the handle bars and frame, dog.
People that are really on my team are there because I DON’T know what forks are
The child begging his parents might be my favorite bit you guys have been doing lately.
My first job ever was a paper route delivering the San Jose Mercury News in 1987 when I was 12. It was the worst job ever. I had to get up at 4 am, my parents weren’t helping me with that shit, so I had to be on my bike rain or shine no matter what. Also, they made kids collect door to door back in those days. You’d cut people off for not paying, so they’d call to complain that they weren’t getting their paper and you’d have to keep delivering to them for free. What a shitty business model it was. I’m not surprised weirdos in cars started delivering papers and they just started mailing people bills.
thank you for your service, from one south bay janitor to another
Constantly pegging w the dudes growing up
There’s a stunt in Invasion USA where a garage door explodes and debris hits the stunt man and it’s amazing he survived. He sued Cannon because of it https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1985/07/16/A-stunt-man-injured-during-the-filming-of-a/8004490334400/
This was definitely the stunt they thought was in Death Wish. Another good one is the mail truck stunt in Hot Rod where the stuntman visibly breaks his leg
Speaking of people clearly getting hurt in scenes, there’s a scene in 1995’s “Kiss of Death” when Nicolas Cage throws the drunk truck driver out of the cabin and he lands on his head. I remember reading about the stuntman say that Cage over through him up, missing his mark by several feet, causing the stuntman to land on his head. You can literally see him start bleeding from his head. https://youtu.be/KeSk0D7aeUU?si=Fsz8BPA3DrimEL8G
No one had any of the accessories on our bmxes and we all wanted them. Built ramps irresponsibly instead
At 01:30:30 sections of the credit crawl look like they’ve been covered with red tape.
From the sauna trivia section: “According to co-writer Sam Bernard on the behind-the-scenes commentary, the positions of the trainees were covered up in the credits because the Writers Guild of America wouldn't let the crew put them in. Originally, "Trainee script writer" was written, but it was pulled at the last minute, worrying they could be fined.”
Current song in my head: Ass Slider, to the tune of the Toadies’ “Backslider”
The announcer saying "Hulk Hogan, eat your heart out" for a backflip always bothered me. Surely he means Superfly Snuka
The lack of selkie knowledge is showing me that the boyz never watched The Secret of Roan Inish growing up. A must-see in any "irish" household. I see it came out in 1996 so maybe the boyz were a bit too old. Whatever, it's John Sayles, throw it on the list boyz!
Paul Crewe Jones
Dennis Leary told a story about Demolition Man on Conan in the 2000's. He said Stallone had a huge trailer with a driving range, basically just a net box. Stallone would call over to him "Yo Dennis, You wanna smack some balls". I think about this at least once a month
Hold up: OIL CHECK?
Had the same thought since I’d never heard the term before. It provides quite the visual.
For my first bike, there was a Mongoose I wanted so bad. My birthday comes, my dad wheels out the exact bike, but it was fucking purple. That’s my dad for you.
Whenever I think of skating accidents and injuries, I think of the video for Scrape by Unsane. Gnarly as hell. https://youtu.be/2dy7Cg36qfY?si=AomQk8CIqW7_KkCc
Loved Ray Walston in Picket Fences, which I was into when I was 12 for some reason.
It was quirky, weird and shocking! Also had Lauren Holly.
BMX bike dancing makes me wet
Not only do 7/11s in Japan have good food and cheap, decent liquor; they also always have an ATM with no withdrawal fees, which is invaluable to anyone visiting the country. Their good reputation is so well-earned that there's a knockoff chain called Sunkus that uses the exact same colours for their branding, in the hopes of fooling tourists.
Same with Family Mart in Taiwan: looks like a normal convenience store from the outside, but fresh food delivered every morning with decent variety, and many are open 24 hours a day. There’s a dude in Taipei who I’m sure recognizes me as the crazy white guy who comes in all the time at 4 AM because my body clock is so messed up. I eat at least one meal a day in Asia from those places.
When the local mom and pop video store closed in my town one of the last times I visited the owner gifted me the store copy of RAD by saying “you’re the only one who rents this anyway.”
Is this whole movie ADR?
Also it was fun to come flying in to your friend's yard and jump off your bike and let it slam into shit
Man I remember absolutely eating shit all the time biking around town. Bloody knees and palms, you get up and you're all fucked up and look around
I totally thought of that too! Rad reminded me of when my buddy was pissed I wouldn’t get off his bros bike and stuck a stick in the spokes. I went flying over the handle bars and my shirtless hick ass got road rash all down my face and chest. Good times!
Not related to this movie, but has anybody yet addressed that Nic Cage in the current art for blank check looks like Stanger?
I know it’s Hosley’s face over Cage’s body, but it’s giving me deep fake Stanger vibes
I wasn’t allowed to watch this because my parents heard about the Hell Track in it. Thanks Satanic Panic. Also I was so obsessed with getting pegs on my bike I felt like it be life changing!
One of most unbelievable elements of this IS that this small American town would have no issue with something called Hell Track!
Bart Conners spoke at my brothers HS graduation. It was awesome to tell him how good it was in Rad in person and also to find out he was in the Olympics
Dar spelled backwards is Rad?
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Thank you!
This seems like the perfect time and place to recommend a movie to Rodgers 🤔
Thanks for the episode. When this was released I was in 3rd grade. The stunt riders came to my school for an assembly to do a demo. I lost my mind. This film was everything to me through the rest of the 80s.
This was a staple in my house growing up. My older siblings would watch this everyday
Rad… is bad.