Terminal Velocity (1994)
Fortunately in this day and age, there’s nothing terminal about this week’s pick. We’re talking about Ditch Brodie and the gang from that other 90’s skydiving movie - TERMINAL VELOCITY
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The Botox bit hurt my feelings. 😢
Hell yeah
What’s everyones favorite “getting dunked into an aquarium” scene from a movie?
#CertsDad too
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Kroll
Feeling far away from Jesus, need some help.
Under “trivia” on Wikipedia for bubblicious right after the entry about their world record for most bubble gum bubbles blown at one time. “In June 2013, former New England Patriots Tight End Aaron Hernandez was linked to a murder by his purchase of Blue Cotton Candy Bubblicious.”
This is one of those great ABZ movies that feels totally reverse engineered off something a writer heard like "if you hit terminal velocity they can't identify the body" and the writer thought wow that's a great idea for a whodunit and Terminal Velocity is a great name for the movie . . . we could get a skydiver hero, but who would be the bad guys . . . Russians!!
The all-time best Conan “Actual Items” bit was a Christmas ad for a train going around a Christmas tree. There’s a little kid asleep in front of the tree and the caption says “Dead kid sold separately.”
I think about that one a lot. The audience reaction was great.
My dog gets angry when I fart and will leave the couch when I do
Stanger brining up the off screen fan deaths in this and Funhouse reminded me of the great on screen death in Alien 3 where the guy is diced in full view
Love me some ash to mouth with a soot show! So hot
Knowing very very little about Dune and not particularly interested in it at all, I LOVED Dune. A true commitment to its weirdness, limited CGI, and none of the annoying “that happened” comedy that’s in every marvel movie. When it was over I wanted more. Now I’m scared Rodgers is gonna savage it.
Read the first three books in the series then, if you liked the movie you’ll probably enjoy the books. They fall off pretty bad after the first three though
Josh Brolin's delivery of the word 'brutal' in Dune is weird, I hope I'm not crazy and didn't this podcast didn't ruin me.
Is it worth seeing? I’ve never read the book but consumed every filmed version other than the new one.
Rogers talking about someone being off-rhythm with the world is the perfect way to put it. I work with someone who, when they hand customers their shit, always says "thank you!" to them, which makes for an awkward end to the interaction because she's stolen their line and they have no idea how to respond. I've seen this happen thousands of times, she has zero awareness of how weird it is to do that.
Pepto Bismol used to be made with wintergreen oil, so I think that's the flavor Rodgers was talking about. Sincerely, IBS guy
This just might be the best episode they’ve ever done. Stay healthy, humble and handsome actionboyz
Rodgers telling a story about someone he’s dated, about telling a story about someone he dated, that was dating someone else,to someone he was dating 😁🏆😁🏆😁
Kind of a love letter to cocaine laced Cold War era espionage with an aviation slant
Aquascaping is so cool. I’ve heard those tanks referred to “planted tanks” a lot too, although those don’t necessarily exclude fish. But you can do some really cool shit with just some shrimp and snails. You may have figured this all out in your rabbit hole already. It’s high maintenance but they look beautiful. Def agree that Rodgers should go for it lol. I’m doing my best to avoid diving in.
I’d love to get one, but everyone that comes over would just see an empty fish tank and think “this guy can’t even keep fish alive?”
I always wanted Paul Rudd to play Philip Marlowe. He’s a bit old now. The best description of the character is a ‘rumpled suit.’
The best Philip Marlowe is Powers Boothe! HBO episodic series from the 80's based on Chandler short stories.
Who else had 'Passenger 69 Pt. 2 reference' on their Actionboyz bingo card?
Klaus Kinski had some sensual lips.
The memory Stanger had of Kevin Bacon skydiving is probably when he is on the rocket sled in She's Having a Baby 59:40. Work is compelling today.
Nice PG-13 random nude scene in that one too if I remember right
Do you guys think David Caruso started carrying autographed business cards after he saw Ditch Brodie's Sports Illustrated wallet print? Those are fun to have.
Skytober?
Anyone else listen to the full action boyz offering from new to old? Finished doing that today, came back for the new one. Now that I’m on the other side I eat wings and work out much more often thanks dudes
Still don’t know shit about movies
This was a neat article about the length of baseball games. According to this scientific study of one example, most of the extra time is the pitcher and batter standing around getting ready for the next pitch. https://www.sbnation.com/a/mlb-2017-season-preview/game-length
I'm enjoying a new tradition of avoiding real responsibility, by watching the movies on Monday morning and then listening. Another winner I can't believe I missed as a kid.
I love farting on my bike. I feel like I go faster.
"I tried to say this in the nicest way possible"...absolutely embarrasses someone in front of a group of people including their gf, lol
Lol at Rodgers reading this, get a life dude
You pay me to read them.
I’m a Robo cam operator too!
Farts is air poop
Excellent Stanger laugh this ep at 34:51 👍🏼
re: Billy Bob Thornton interview, it was originally broadcasted on CBC on a show called Q. to add another layer, the interviewer, Jian Ghomeshi , was outed as a sexual predator/abuser a few years later
In Jackass 3 they fucked around in jet wash. It was hilarious.
A bit new to the pod, but have they ever tried watching the trailers before the movie? I feel like that could be good content
The ability to smell asparagus pee is a genetic variation and one of the extremely useful pieces of information you learn from doing a 23andMe test
I can listen to this with my kids in the other room they prob won't hear anything too bad "the reason birds are good at suckin dick in a glory hole..."
I've never once put on ABZ with someone in earshot.
Pump Up The Volume is on YouTube if you’ve got the patience for it being split into parts.
it's also available here https://archive.org/details/pump_up_the_volume_1990 and as far as I know this is a "legal" website since it's considered like a library(?)
One day Gabrus will say whether he likes a movie before the other Boyz and or disagree with their take 😂😂
This is exactly what I needed this morning.
Ditch
Birds have to give terrible BJs. They have no lips. Hilariously, the only animal that can't suck. It might not be, I'm not a zoologist.
That bit with the yellow Corvette guy, complete with the Corvette leather jacket all excited saying "Hey, I have one just like that!" cracked me up good.
I t-boned a yellow convertible Corvette years ago, fortunately no one was injured. After checking on the driver this movie immediately popped into my head.
I’ve heard the type of person Gabrus worked with at the beach who had to top everything also called an “Elevenerife”, as if you say you went on holiday to Tenerife, they went one better. 😊
*HAVING ACTUALLY LISTENED TO THE EPISODE ALL THE WAY THROUGH, I’M DUMB AS FUCK AND THEY IDENTIFIED THE MOVIE AS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. I’m keep my comment up though, because I’m a shamepig. I think the silent movie Rogers is referring to is D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance. Pauline Kael’s favorite movie.
This movie actually did teach me about what Terminal Velocity was.
During the early part of the pandemic I spent a month or two exclusively watching movies from the 70s and it really highlighted just how comically and unnaturally white everyone allowed on television’s teeth are now.
And the veneers, or whatever they are, are so big on some people it looks like horse teeth
Never watched this before, but the shot of the two of them flying towards the camera in the ejector seat was burned into my brain from the commercials in the 90s. How come Denise Richards is still getting dunked on for having the fucking nerve to play a scientist once, but nobody ever gave Sheen any shit for portraying the world's doughiest Olympic-level gymnast in this?
There's already so much to dunk on with ol Tiger's Blood Chuck.
Stanger I like