SHADOW WOLVES JANUARY 2021

What's the final number for "Little Scotland"

Hell yeah

There is a place called Muff in Ireland and yes it does have a diving school https://www.muffdivingclub.ie/

The lead of Action USA is Mac's dad on It's Always Sunny.

Solid theater in Rochester, NY...saw a great Carpenter double feature pre-pandemic...https://thelittle.org/ has some good swag too

Check out this awesome restaurant/brewery/movie theater in Asheville, NC. They make their own beer and T-shirt’s and can ship both to you. https://shop.ashevillebrewing.com

I think Rodger's hate voicemail was a direct result of the "Conan the Destroyer" episode, which is a personal fav of mine. But there's a lot of would-be offensive content for an undiscerning listener.

Holy shit holy shot holy shit these dudes are so Action Boyz: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9246917/amp/Marjorie-Taylor-Green-openly-cheated-husband-men-gym.html

First episode!

Scarecrow Video in Seattle, WA is one of the last few video stores in Seattle, WA has Criterion Collection Movies, tees, and pins for sale. blog.scarecrow.com

They never responded to the Den Mother Question, I asked about the Peanut Butter. 😉 (I am glad we didn’t find out)

This was my first shadow wolves so the cold open really was hilarious but I had to comment to say that I'm an audiobook engineer and I've worked with Fred Berman. He always comes in super prepared and can read for like 25 minutes without making a single mistake. Shoutout to voice actors!

No one is talking about Raised by Wolves on HBO max? That show is fucking awesome

MEDIA DIET: 30 COINS on HBO/MAX is bonkers! It’s a Spanish show about Judas betraying Jesus, and the best way I can describe it is Lovecraft Country + Constantine. It’s such a fun, horror/sci-fi show and I cannot get enough of it.

Thanks for mentioning how good the audiobook reader for Antkind is, totally got me back into it and I'm finishing the 2nd half.

My local independent theater is struggling hard. Help us Action Boyz! https://www.midtowncinema.com/product-page/midtown-cinema-classic-logo-zip-up-hoodie

"Hey ActionBoyz, calling in from Denmark here... ...and we call it the boogie woogie!" "Ok man well thanks for calling in with your cool Dutch accent."

I suggest checking out the av club review of Antkind if you want to double down on that feeling of being completely disconnected from the culture.

Just searching "Liam Neeson pissed pants". Holy damp dungarees, Darkman!

Have the action boyz never discussed the Dennis Rodman world tour on MTV? Specifically the episode in Rome, with Van Damm on the set of double team. I feel like that it at the very least deserves an action boyz mention. If it’s already been discussed and I missed it then I’m curious if Stanger bot or gorgon have any insights.

Long-ish comment incoming: this Wednesday I had to have my cat put to sleep after a battle with cancer. She was too young, and everything turned south really fast. It's really gutted me, as this pandemic has only made more stressful a very stressful job (which pre-pandemic included regular visits to death rows and the prison at Guantanamo Bay). Anyway, after it was all done, I got myself together enough to make the drive home late at night, and the bluetooth started playing the next podcast that I had cued up, which happened to be this Shadow Wolves. I don't know why, but hearing "Adele Dazeem" three times in a row was exactly the thing I needed to cheer me up. Seriously, I can't count the number of times this show has helped me get through lousy times. Hate to get too personal in a space known for roasting, but thought I'd share. P.S. - the cat, CC, heard a lot of the Boyz on road trips. She was a great friend, but I'm not sure she got the humor.

Local Portland theater https://hollywoodtheatre.org/

I'm like a third into the Antkind audiobook and I agree it's amazing

Hadn’t seen Saturday Night Fever until a couple nights ago and was definitely pleasantly surprised by how dark and complex it was. I was wondering the whole time if it was the “proto-Entourage” and Entourage is an equally self-aware dry satire. (A girl can dream) And I have a lot of respect for Travolta, but this video has forever taken him down a peg in my heart:

Princess Cinema, Waterloo Ontario.

I saw Possessor in a movie theater in Vancouver, when theaters were still open. There was a mom with her three very young kids in the theater, I warned her that it was a horror movie but she said her kids liked scary movies. I knew it was gonna be fucked up but I didn't want to antagonize this woman, so I gave up. Movie starts with an extreme close up of a knife slowly stabbing a man's throat and the woman is laughing. After 45 minutes of some of the most extreme violence I've ever seen, plus a pretty graphic sex scene, the mom leaves with her kids. Youngest daughter is crying. Probably a good thing the kids missed the ending. No spoilers but if you've seen it you know why.

Cobble Hill Cinema

Is the older woman Rodge was talking about Ghislaine Maxwell?! Is there an alternate time line where he goes undercover to bring down Epstein!

Anyone know the next Action Boyz movie? After Assault on Precinct 13? Or does it remain a mystery?

His Dumb Materials

Great ep as usual. Lately I’ve been getting into foreign TV for some reason. Ragnarok on Netflix was a fun little take on the Norse gods. Beforeigners on HBO Max is about a time hole in Scandinavia where people from the Stone Age and Victorian era are suddenly appearing in our time & how they try to assimilate (plus a murder investigation). Another one on HBO Max is 30 Coins, a Spanish show about a small town mayor, a veterinarian & an ex-exorcist who team up to investigate Satanic shenanigans in their town. Also, surprised I haven’t heard the Boyz talk about Gangs of London yet? In think it’s on AMC plus or some shit. Made by the Raid movies guy, has some great action in it

Man this is a top 3 ep for me, it ranks right up there with rocky 3 and showdown in little tokyo. Rodgers' "friend" email is accurate. I'm never listening again. 5 stars.

I need to hear the boys take on Horse Girl and who has dated the most of them.

Calling out twins in this episode. I was a twin for 35 years.

I think I peaked parasocial creep wise last night bc I asked clements to talk about the kaufman book on TFO livestream and he was like "how the fuck does someone know I'm reading this book."

The Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips stuff is all dope its basically what got me back into comics and still mostly all I read. Phillips has done a lot of great Criterion art too like the new Great Escape release.. Anyway this reminded me Refn is rebooting Maniac Cop and Brubaker is writing it.

I think the movie that Gabrus was talking about “Hit the bros hard”, was Good Will Hunting... came here to confirm but didn’t see it posted. It’s weird the random details that I fixate on in 3 hours of dudes talking.

Wonder Women wanted Chris Pine's character back, he died at the end of the first movie (WW2),

I was so strangely invested in hearing that bad review...so yeah, I've had a pretty fulfilling last few months.

Can we get the email transcript on a t-shirt?

I was in tears laughing at the email rodgers received. ‘Please don’t ever resurface in my life again, you are not welcome.’

Man, what is up with all these weirdos from Rodgers’ past!?

It’s been awesome checking out these links, keep em coming Wolves!

Am all in for a tv show based on Stanger's stripper past...

I've heard the Travolta thing referenced but it's wayyy better than I thought. He's perfect

You guys are not wrong about White Castle. There was a White Castle in Minneapolis where my friend broke his hand in a fight. There's something about once the sun goes down White Castles get fucking insane. The bullet proof glass makes it feel even more lawless inside.

Hey boyz, just leaving my local theaters merch site: Darkside Cinema- https://darkside-cinema.square.site/

Gonna put my money down on the "Sudden Death" episode as the one that prompted "the review". First episode in the free feed, and the cold open is a whole lot of buttfucking-talk interspersed with some mass shooting and heart failure.

I think Fairfax Cinema is done, and is currently being used as a retail space for the street wear brand Brain Dead

https://musicboxtheatre.com/store

I think it's a requirement to be sufficienrly fucked up on multiple substances, to eat at a white castle.

I also watched In a Lonely Place (1950) recently on Prime. Bogart’s performance is fantastic. This movie seems formulaic at first but Bogart’s performance keeps you guessing and by the end of the film you feel a completely different way about his character than you did at the beginning.

I think the Boyz are being too generous on the strength of HBO relative to past eras. After the calendar rolled over to 2000 we got the premieres of Sopranos, The Wire, Oz, Curb, Deadwood, Band of Brothers, and Six Feet Under. By the time 2010 rolled around Curb was all that was left and they were trying to replace The Wire with Treme, Deadwood with John from Cincinatti, Band of Brothers with The Pacific, and I guess Six Feet Under with True Blood. Then they hit the Boardwalk Empire era before they realized what they had with GOT, and I don't know if anyone is ever going to rewatch that show to see Michael Pitt lose another job. GOT was more popular than any of those early 2000s prestige shows, but none of those shows were the most popular of their time like GOT were that doesn't mean they're not as good. I don't know when ratings started meaning prestige, otherwise people need to apologize to Big Bang Theory fans.

Local theater in Seattle that shows a cool arty stuff, but aren't above Cannon, Carpenter, Face-Off, etc: https://thebeacon.film/store/

Possessor kicks so much ass- feels like it could be a sequel to eXistenZ

I order donuts from a place by me and every time I order a “old fashioned” donut I have to show my id. And the delivery persons are always way too talkative during the photo Id process.

Gotta give another thumbs-up for Promising Young Woman (I had asked about it on the SW post for media diet). Probably the best rape-revenge movie I've ever seen and justifies the genre as having potential for more than the usual gross exploitative fare that it is. Carey Mulligan is fucking amazing. Sucks that its pretty much gone entirely under the radar due to COVID, well worth a watch and probably one of my favorites from 2020

I'll start a new local merch thread here so anyone can drop theirs. Shoutout to Bob Brown and Raygun Busch for doing this for the last Shadow Wolves.

Stanger stripper stories are hilarious

NINETEEN OR TWENTY?!?!?!

I did expect The Review to be longer, but god damn it was sharp.

I fucking loved the first 300 pages or so of Antkind, it's the first time in ages I was sitting there glued to an actual book for hours on end. Then at some point he starts seeing this hypnotherapist to recover the 3-month long movie and every other chapter turns into these little plays and I kinda lost interest. Haven't touched in a week or two but I should pick it back up again, it just doesn't have the same insane unrelenting energy as the first part.

Pretty excited to hear the boyz talk about Antkind and I'm VERY curious about what they think towards the end. I had exactly the same feelings on it as they're talking about in the episode, but it does go off the rails at some point, sadly. Like, if it had been half as long, it would have been a fucking banger of a book.

Haha the opening

Ay, I fucking got in there. Had a hell of a time trying to figure out how the fuck to dial an American number from Europe.

The opening on this was such a treat and I was glad to hear the lukewarm reaction to The Queen's Gambit. A true 6/10 show.