Top Dog (1995)
The boyz discuss Top Dog.
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RIP Chuck
I wish they would spend more time on the movies.
130 minutes and they are still not through a single scene.
I could listen and laugh my ass off, hearing you guys doing deadpan Chuck for days. 😂😂😂 hilarious dudes for real. Top Dog, Top movie 🤟
Please do Pom Poko for Ani-May... It's all about tanukis using their magical scrotums to fight deforestation and land development. Except it's a lot cuter than it sounds
I second Stanger you guys gotta read lonesome dove
I was 14
Wait no...outside Providence
Only walked out of new Providence but cuz my mom made us leave because of the drugs and langauge🤣
Leviathan on prime too!
Paprika for animay!
AniMay!
AniMay! Ninja Scroll, a DBZ movie, Akira, some Myazaki something!
Was really hoping for a mention of mangos re: the fruit bowl discussion lol
I’m more on a Rockford files kick right now. But I do love Kojak.
Also. Rams-Bears baby! Sorry Stanger but no lead is safe against the Bears. I am scared of their offense, but uh, we'll see if still works when it's freezing temperatures this Sunday. Bear Down!
I'm in my mid-40s and only walked out of maybe 4 or 5 movies in my life. The Monkey is one that I walked out of maybe halfway through or less than.
Only movie I’ve walked out of was “View from the top.” Terrible 2003 Gwyneth Paltrow girlpower flight attendant movie. Got about an hour in and thought, “Sitting in my car in silence would be more enjoyable than watching this movie right now.” The brief post-Austin Powers Mike Myers scenes were the closest I got to a chuckle, but other than that complete boneheaded schlock.
Amazon prime totally knows about us. Top Dog was in my “recommended”
Kinda need to see all of these drawings. I did the exact thing
I’d love Ani-May but I’m not sure how many anime films would actually be fun to feature on the show. Maybe something like Ninja Scroll?
I will say that JCVD's kickboxing record is very suspicious. It's hard to verify and the wikipedia entry about it doesn't help. The PKA Middleweight title fight against Georges Verlugels has a link to an article where a member of the Belgium National Team just calls Verlugels a tough guy. No mention of a title being on the line. A lot of the other links you see just direct you to karate tournament rules pages. I love JCVD as much as the next guy, but he isn't anywhere near Chuck when it comes to actual competition.
Woah I just watched Dark Angel then listened to the episode. Dolph has an old football jacket that says "Top Dog" on it. So Rodgers brings up the movie; "Yea it was on our list but then I'm like nah". Sounds like they kept punting this movie until now.
Man I just heard Stanger’s correction. What a total blessing, thank you.
Sounds like he's been eating a lot of pussy.
What a great one. This episode was a hilarious from beginning to end. And given how introductory some of the tangents at the beginning were, I feel like this would be a perfect one to consider for your free feed.
Regarding Rodgers advice saving kids artwork. Give it to them when they are stable. My parents dumped all my memorabilia on me when they kicked me out at age 17 and it was gone by age 19.
I have walked out of one movie and it was when I worked at a movie theater, so it’s not like I paid for it anyways. It was the Jarmusch film Paterson - I left during the waterfall scene when he’s writing poetry, ugh it was just too masturbatory and not in the good way. I left to go buy good smelling lotion and came back to clock in for work.
damn I hate most of his stuff but that one I really liked for some reason, made me understand poetry and shit.
the thing about people saying their cat is like a dog is a result of the longstanding notion that cats dont need companionship and aren’t really bonded to their family. but neither of those things are true! people get a cat and learn that actually cats are fun and sweet so they say “wow he’s like a dog!” when he’s actually just behaving as cats do when you’re nice to them
RE: Long Legs. I left the theater thinking NEON deserved an Academy Award for their marketing on that turd.
'real quick the swat guys you would never give them M203 grenade launchers' -meanwhile ICE shooting innocent people in the face point blank with this and worse, we live in hell.
Talk of Kojak has spilled to everyone around me. Ive found out that somewhere is a photo of my married grandma sitting on Kojaks lap in some vegas bar they found him in
Worked the closing shift tonight (those floors dont mop themselves) so the Mrs. had head to bed with the dogs already so I could actually watch this gem without any K9/K2;9000/K9;2000 interruption.
I, too, was immediately distracted by his mom’s banana bowl.
Seeing Timothy Bottoms show up in this was a WTF moment especially since he wasn’t even the main villain. He was just a glorified henchman! Bottoms was just a few years away from playing George W Bush in both the sitcom “That’s My Bush” and the TV movie drama “DC 9/11: Time of Crisis”
I was surprised this didn't come up! So funny he did a serious version and silly one. He is very Dubya-esque
I turned this off and put on The Hitman instead. Blood pressure returned to normal.
140bpm good.
For some reason I kept ticket stubs from concerts for decades. It’s definitely fun to go back and know the exact dates I saw these bands and to laugh at how cheap it used to be. I still have the stub from my first ever concert - REM at the Oakland Coliseum arena, March 14, 1989.
Just embarked on my Miami Vice journey
I was listening to Jokermen a while back, they were covering the Warren Zevon album Envoy from the 80's, title track is about Reagan's envoy to the middle east, nukes, turmoil, CIA etc. sounds like a movie right? Apparently Zevon was buddies with Aaron Norris and the idea initially started as a script supposedly for Zevon and or Chuck
Are you guys mad at us? This movie feels like a form of punishment.
Gotta do a 2nd Zombie Squad Kojak for the Stallone episode
We need to return to action movie villains being clear white supremacists. Top Dog, Stone Cold, Dead Bang, The Postman
1:47:56 GABRUS with the DEEP CUT, Finding Forrester reference!! Unacknowledged by the crew… Well fucking done!! Clip from that trailer I’ll remember forever.
Lol Gabrus never passes on a "you're the dog now" pun.
Been on the Kojak train and I can’t stop. Favorite Savalas non-sequitur so far is “you know that massage parlor on Broadway? Not the one that got fire-bombed last month”
“McBain” and “Riverbend” are absolutely bonkers. They’re true B-movie Action Boyz picks—and surprisingly relevant to our American lives today. I can’t wait to listen to their discussions.
I'm also like Gabrus where I will just not leave a movie no matter what. However, the last movie I was so tempted to leave was Rambo: Last Blood. Just a real piece of shit movie.
Stanger: his Bob problem Gabrus (very subtly): what about it? Sometimes it’s the really simple jokes that hit. I laughed way too hard at this.
Please do Avenging Force when you can!
Yessssss!! I said the same thing on the American Ninja 2 episode
Also on a Kojak journey. Interested to hear Rodgers’s thoughts when he gets to the season 2 episode A Souvenir From Atlantic City. There’s a bunch obvious of ADR in the episode and I keep flip flopping on whether I think it’s because the Bronx detective is such a bad actor or if they redubbed a lot of the lines to change the details on the terrorist cell to make them fake terrorists instead of a real organization. It’s also fun to get deeper in the show and see Savalas become truly unrestrained. He spanks a sex worker in one episode in a scene that seems, from her reaction, improvised. How very 70s.
Fun fact. C4 won't explode just with fire. We used to use it to heat up coffee in the Marine Corps. You need fire and pressure (blasting cap). So we cooked with it but never stomped out the fire. 😂
I keep hearing this anecdote and always think about how we just used normal cooking equipment in the Air Force
Hell yeah
First I'm hearing of Ari Aster and Dan Clowes sign me up!
You could tell Chuck was checked out on this one. Him and Aaron just have shit for taste in general I think that's a huge part of directing.
I'm like 5yrs younger than ABZ but I always liked Chuck from the 80s to the 90s, Walker Texas Ranger was one thing my dad and I could both watch haha
I haven’t seen The Bad Guys but we loved Zootopia when we recently watched it w our 4-year-old. It’s a 70s conspiracy thriller. Very Thrill Boyz
Sounds like your kid is ready for 3 Days of the Condor.
Screenplay by… “Ron Swanson”
I saw that too. My teenage son was confused why I was laughing at the opening credits.
You have to read or listen to Lonesome Dove for sure! It will rip your heart out but it's totally worth it. Starts very slow but you really appreciate that once you start to get to the end, because you don't want it to. The audiobook with Lee Horsley is beautiful because his voice really takes you into that time. Will Patton apparently voiced the new one but I haven't listened.
I like the way you incorporated the martial arts into your canine partnership tonight.
I'm loving Kojak. I'm on season 2. Love the podcast. Thanks, boyz!
Really taking cat owners to task in this one. Finally
Personally I was disappointed that they talked about how having cat allergies makes it difficult to date women and no one made the obvious joke
I was logged in on all 4 of my accounts and two paragraphs deep when Stanger popped in with that correction.
I don't think Stanger has felt the need to apologize like that since he mixed up Tia Carrere with Asia Carrera.
I had a Chuck Norris action figure from Karate Kommandos but I can’t remember ever seeing an episode of it as a kid. He’s dressed basically like Forge from the X-Men.
That was back in the day when they would just replace the head on characters from bodies that didn't sell
I'd love if my mom saved me a BEC after sleeping through breakfast.
Did Aaron Norris hate his brother?
No, he loves Dean
The clown mask wearing white supremacists shootout is gonna be a tough one to beat for best action sequence of the year. The guy doing a completely unnecessary front flip, the honk when Reno puts his paw on the dudes face, the iris out transition for the ending, the fucking circus-esq scoring. Pure art.
For years I tried to find a movie where Hulk Hogan fought clowns and it was Chuck Norris all along. What a world.
This movie was so fun. Great pick, great ep!
Whoever scored this movie is either insane or an imbecile. Possibly both.
Zydeco in San Diego!
Mid episode stanger commentary track was insane
Somehow the next live show should have him interrupt and give context or a caveat for something he hasn’t said yet.
Next year, I’m totally gonna do a No Elephant Shooting November.
don't care what QT says about actors. i do care that he moved to tel aviv RECENTLY and has been posing with the IDF. i was into him in the mid 90s like everyone else until I realized it was better to just watch the source material he cuts and pastes to make his movies. mf out here wearing a dashiki and criticizing people
Can’t believe I forgot about this one.
ActionBoyz is the only good thing from America right now.. Ps. It would NOT be a "funny bit" to join ICE and go after Mike Mitchell for being Irish..
Always know it’s gonna be good when Gwildor shows up in the first 10 minutes.
Never thought I’d enjoy Top Dog, but with everything that’s been going on lately, I’ve been feeling a lot of anxiety and dread. Needed something to take my mind off things, and this turned out to be exactly what I needed. Looking forward to this ep. Thanks, boys!