The French Connection (1971)
They can't all be winners...Occasionally the ABZ will slum it and pick some unknown, little seen movie and just completely trash it. This week that movie is called THE FRENCH CONNECTION or some shit. You guys ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?
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I just watched this on Amazon and the French parts were not subtitled, so I just thought huh interesting directorial choice. Turns out I was just clueless for most of the movie, but the chase scenes made up for it all
I cannot tell you how happy it made me to hear 2 of the 3 ABZ enjoyed their time in Annapolis. I was born and raised there and would go bonkers for a Live show. I'll be there in my Patriot Games "White 'Annapolis' sweatsuit with dirty white nikes," assassin costume!
Hell yeah
Just listened to a clip of The Friedkin Connection and CACKLED. Bang's impression is spot on. Too funny
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Man, Rodgers' story about the cop stealing the novel made my blood boil. We hear about SO much worse every day, but something about the pettiness really got to me. Couldn't concentrate on the podcast for the next ten minutes.
Justice for Stangerbot. I hope he goes off and forms his own podcast. Bot Boyz.
Yeah, Stangerbot and Gorgon got done dirty by the Boyz.
Hawkeye
I enjoyed the little bit of Get Back talk. I’ve watched it 3 times already but would love to hear Rodgers talk about it more.
Nb
Your fish loves garlic bread too!!!
The baseball player pants shitting story Ben mentioned as a possible SW cold open is HoF'er George Brett. A true asshole's asshole, he has a rep for being basically insane but he's such a hero in KC no one has ever called him out on it. Some guy had a website in the olden days detailing some the maniacal shit he would do, inspired by GB telling him to "fuck off" when he was a 10 y.o. kid asking for an autograph.
The De Mille brothers had a studio in Gallup, New Mexico I think Rodgers was referring to, great restaurant hotel they built for early Western movie stars to stay in was the El Rancho, neat time locked hotel that oozes old hollywood. Great place that still exists, themed rooms with old movie library available for free and a nice movie star themed menu
Where my Sugar Boyz at?
I thought the boyz were going to do “The Silent Partner” (1978) for the holiday season? Now that is a Christmas movie.
What the hell foos!? Where’s StangerBot ? 😤😤😤😤😤😤
The friedkin flintstones bit was hilarious. “They asked me to direct the sequel to their movie. I saw which Baldwin was attached as supporting actor. I said No.”
The Beatles were superior songwriters and the Stones were a superior live band.
The 2005 show at Soldier Field was so good I forgave them for allowing Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi to open as the Blues Brothers.
“Petco Sucks” lolol
My French Connection Blu Ray says there is a commentary track with Gene & Roy. So unless he has his eyes closed for the commentary, I think he's seen it at least once. I didn't rewatch for this episode, but will now and turn on the commentary track. I'll report back if there's any good tidbits.
Roy would pause, tell him what’s going on and wait if he had any thoughts on scene.
I speak French so, to me, this movie is a French Connection in multiple ways
I went to Marseille in 2011 when I graduated college. I saw a French skinhead sucker punch a tourist that basically looked identical to me in the middle of a square in broad daylight. I was happy to catch the train out of that town. Met some cool Moroccans there though. This is my only chance to share this story with strangers.
Here for it
As a Petco janitor who listens to this podcast at their job, I appreciated the roasting.
Not even gonna confirm if you hate animals or not?
I’m extremely curious why Rodgers isn’t a fan of Zapppa.
Shit Gabrus said about police officers is spot on.
Italians and Irish are also Catholic, while England is protestant. These were English colonies full of W.A.S.P.'s. And today we hate Mexicans and other South Americans, still more Catholics. Coincidence?
Samuel Huntington may have been a virulent racist but as a political scientist It gave him great insight into this exact topic.
I love old nyc. Look at all that parking.
How to with John Wilson? I just watched the parking episode yesterday.
Wow I never noticed until this viewing, but when Gene Hackman gets going and yelling he sounds like a super intense Jimmy Stewart!
Goddamn Stanger with a Research In Motion pull. Where are all my fellow BlackBerry Storm owners at?
I told my dad I watching the french connection for the first for the podcast. He said I never made you watch that? You were almost named Popeye. Anyway I didn’t watch it I don’t have the streaming service it’s on. Hopefully the episode explains how great Popeye is.
The actor character is meant to be Alain Delon, right?
You call this a Connection movie? Needs more Dragon Sound.
I can’t stress enough how much people should read the Friedkin Connection. If you think you know what it’s going to be like by the impression the boys do, it still gives you more.
What a picture! I always forget that the train chase isn't the end of the movie. That scene slaps so hard, probably the only thing I dislike about the movie is that it feels a bit jarring to go from that right back into another stakeout.
"A picture"
Just listened to the Scott Hasn't seen podcast with the Action Boyz. They were great, somehow the episode wasn't 3Hrs long
Duuuuudes ❤️
hell the fuck yes.
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