The Program (1993)
It's time to put the women and children to bed and go looking for dinner. Unless they're listeners, then they should stay up and listen. Also, women are the better providers now anyway. Fuck it, everyone just listen to THE PROGRAM and rejoice in the first half of this years celebration of Sportstember.
BONUS: Stanger redlines the entire 4 hour episode
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Do you know anyone that is a Heisman Trophy candidate who has a father that has never attended a single one of their games….ever. Please, Recommend this Podcast to them.
Gulliver’s Travels bit as Trump is hardest Stanger ever laughed in the show history
Yo I love all 3 of u guys. But the way Rodgers gives Stanger shit for going off sometimes is so annoying. Especially when Rodgers takes foooooooorever to tell a story lmao. It never fails too, Rodgers will talk some shit about Stanger talking too much and then instantly go into a story himself that takes 5 mins with pausing and his really drawn out "uuuuummmmmm" lol it's jus so bad
Damn I miss stranger bot and gorgan wish they would make an appearance once in awhile
NBA coach who sucked at fordham, gotta be Bob Hill lol.
SUNY ALBANY BABY!
Holy shit, this might be my favorite episode. Latecomer but I'm damn glad I still have gems like this to uncover
Best episode. Stanger's anecdotes are the only salve in this year without a true college football season.
Rodgers' impression of Trump meeting the Horse King was an all-timer. I was crying laughing.
My personal favorite kristy swanson is The Chase kristy swanson
Yes.
If anyone wants more info on the Spacey Master Class and other Spacey oddities check out this episode from ( I think) friends of the pod Podcast The Ride with Eva Anderson https://www.patreon.com/posts/undisclosed-with-37044553 .
Eva Anderson is quality on Doughboys and How Did This Get Played?
Stanger is a treasure! Loved getting his take on everything! I know he's an easy target cuz of his enthusiasm and the time he takes up with his football anecdotes but goddamn having someone charismatic and funny that had had that experience is hard to come by I think and it was awesome hearing all of the lived details!
Listen, any guy who will enthusiastically attempt to get a teenager a hand job in exchange for a peek at an unwilling teammate's monster cock is alright with me!
Best Action Boyz episode yet. This movie was a cable mainstay for a while. That’s how I first saw it. I’m not a football guy but I love football movies for some reason.
Stanger’s whole Ted Danson’s Gulliver’s Travels honor of riding on a horse-man because he didn’t take the jewels recollection was golden. The call back with the Trump impression was one of the funniest bits ever on this show.
The tears running down my face at the period bit and also the very end “I’m gonna put my open mouth on this curb over here”......everyone in my home was concerned. Thank u boys. Also I had to look up the thing they kept referencing with laying down in the road, I was completely unaware of this controversy for some reason. Prob because I was 1 year old when the movie came out lol
So is Stanger an attempted sex trafficker or what?
No, but he firmly believes in the barter value of a 15” cock
When these guys go full jock mode it’s just perfection. I’ll still be listening to this ep on Thursday, just beautiful
I tend to appreciate the softer side of the ABZ crew... I'm more about the Gulliver's Travels anecdotes than "here's an asshole I used to know that did something really shitty...it was hilarious!"
This movie was so much fun, it made me want to seduce a rookie pitcher and then shoot him in the belly.
NFL - watch it on TV. NBA - fuck I love watching live in a stadium. Soccer - depends on the team atmosphere
Baseball - fun live every now and again or if I bring a book
I kept waiting for them to do a Joe Kane/Johnny Manziel comparison. Joe Kane with money.
Best Stanger episode ever. Legendary.
He was so goddamn hyped for this, then after more than 3 hours he goes "I'm sorry, this must be like trying to enjoy a science fiction movie while sitting next to that famous space guy."
Well shit
While listening I looked up Rudy on IMDB, where I was treated to this juicy piece of trivia: "One year earlier, Sean Astin appeared in Encino Man with Brendan Fraser. Later that year, Fraser appeared in School Ties with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who later appeared in Good Will Hunting, which they also wrote. This film features Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, who later appeared in Swingers, which Favreau also wrote."
I read that in Ben’s nerd/ABZ listener voice.
Give that quarterback the Heisman for best wig.....fuckin knockoff Christian Slater
I’m the Rodgers of my friend group in that nobody taught me how to throw a baseball and I hung out at dive bars alone when I was 19.
I’ve never wanted to play baseball but I did and still occasionally do hang out at dive bars alone. Day drinking with headphones and a book is my treat when my wife is away.
As someone who also played college ball, I can say that it wasn’t anything like this. Of course, I played my football, sorry, American football, in England while on exchange. I’m also 5’8” and 135lbs soaking wet. It was the first year they ever had a team and I played safety. I told guys to get Madden for their consoles just to understand what to do. They all wanted to catch it rugby style down at the hip. We played on ‘pitches’ with like 30 fans. No stadiums. Our second game was against a team that had had a program for a decade and we lost 83-0. The most humiliating sports defeat of my life. But yeah, nothing like this as I’m sure my experience was quintessential college football not at all some weird foreign shit.
Well when you play rugby you’re specifically told NOT to hold it like an American football!
The Ramones recorded radio ads for Steel Reserve, it's some of their best late career work.
The conversation between the 3 of them is 2nd to no other podcast
this is the best episode ever made
The Ben Affleck after school special about steroids has been brought up enough times, I want to share the South Park parody where Jimmy is taking steroids for the Special Olympics. Here is a clip, though the whole episode is great; "Up the Down Steroid" season 8. https://youtu.be/skqAILCryV0 Search on YouTube Jimmy Roid Rage if the link doesn't work.
We need a shadow wolves episode on this after school special.
"I'm very good friends with the horse king. he wants me to ride him. nobody else. because i wanted the jewels. i took the jewels and i said horse king, everybody wants the jewels"
Someone get stranger a horse to ride
Wow can’t believe Rodgers is a fellow Fordham alum. Go Rams! 🐏
Not for nothing, but the 'I need my guns to protect my family from pedos' thins is a crazy change in what was the 'i need my guns to protect my family from the government'. The moment they had a chance to actually use their guns to defend citizens against the government, they balked, so now they moved the goal posts to some other nonsense reason. I cannot believe this is my comment on THE PROGRAM episode.
Well, “they” weren’t being attacked by the government.
As somebody who also played football at a relatively high level- Stangers nitpicks and experience were so similar to mine. The accurate stuff was accurate and the stuff that was off really stood out. I’m not sure how many other ABZs are in the 25-30 range but I feel like Remember the Titans is seen by our generation as an absolute classic and was always playing in my high school or middle school on movie days when the teachers had subs or didn’t feel like teaching that day
Remember the Titans is the only way social studies teachers knew how to “teach” racism in the mid-late 2000s
Is the truck the Hilux? I think it evolved into the Tacoma
Worst news this year: Kristy Swanson is a right-winger.
I’d still sleep with her, saying that condoms cause autism and rimming prevents Covid.
The Nightbreed mention makes me hope that they eventually invite Betsy Sodarro and Mano Agapion on to talk about a horror flick.
It was Horny 4 Horror that introduced me to ABZ
Listening to Stanger finally Stanger out fully was a treat. Hearing him constantly jump in about how 'no it is like that' in terms of things like, "being a backup for someone" & "attempting to buy sex acts for friends" was just spectacular.
It sounds like a nightmare and underlined the con of them not being paid and it being about an education. “It’s not worth the calories to put on jeans” or whatever the phrase he used was mad but you can imagine they’d be that wrecked.
You realize this probably means they will hit a bunch of movies people have been asking them to do and they will be under an hour each episode.
Don’t, I’m still getting over No Retreat, No Surrender 2...
Almost 4 hours and the gorgon doesnt show up for damn near an hour. This episode is a fucking gift from god.
Is kane's forehead bigger than Jason Lee's?
HGH into ass or balls. NOT forehead
Holy shit - I hope Stanger Bot gets a full 30 mins in this Ep
Damn, I think Duane Davis (the guy who plays Alvin) also may have had a run-in with IMDB's customer service. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0204523/
I’m here for all of it
Who knows?
I am so excited!
They covered up an attempted rape so they could go to the Meineke Car Care Bowl
“Honey, we’re not missing a bowl game over a failed attempt; now go see your therapist in your signed Latimer shirt.”
They did it! Those crazy bastards actually did it!
3:48:49! PLACE AT THE TABLE!
did anyone else see the old ass dude with the big forehead eat pizza with a fork?
ESPN’s 3:48:49 for 30 A breakdown of Lattimer’s injection methods and Mack’s trash talk playbook!!!
Me watching the movie yesterday: "Preeeetty sure we'll get a new longest episode out of this" And yet I still started cackling like a madman just now.
Uhhhhhhh, they’ve almost broke the 4 hour barrier?!
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
3:48:49👀
Would you just look at that beautiful runtime? We don’t deserve our Boyz, but we love them.
Haha, my comment was not a response to yours, just a coincidence.