Shadow Wolves March 2022
The boyz discuss what they're watching/reading, answer some calls from the ABZ phone line, and talk about Pump Up the Volume (1990)!
Just a heads-up the new Batman movie is discussed from 9:30-23:00 if you haven't seen it yet.
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one million years too late to this but my small "city" Kalamazoo is the one Tim Allen was arrested in for selling coke! our 3rd claim to fame after Gibson Guitars and the Uber Shooter
I would pay money to hear Rogers sing the entourage intro. Oh yeah!
Hell yeah
Actionboyz, get rid of the $8 tier, make it $10 and add a bonus quarterly episode. Inflation, my dudes.
Rogers, have you considered that you need to smoke MORE weed before going to see the movie?
I got Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli from my library over the weekend and am enjoying it. Coppola's commentary track on the movie is available if anyone is interested (sometimes I just throw on a commentary and listen like it's a podcast): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkTuQdUM1IE
Genuinely riveted by that Vietnam story. Good on you, whoever left it.
I laughed my ass off when Nicole Kidman came on in my theater
My Dad grew up in the 60s in Rochester, NY and had to swim naked in gym class. He thought nothing of it. He said it was, "crowd control" and rationalized it as the only way to keep a large group of rowdy boys in line. Idk man, idk.
Anyone else try to get through wheel of time? I’m no stranger to long series, I’ve read the Malazan Book of the Fallen for example, but Robert Jordan just doesn’t do it for me. Speaking of Malazan I actually learned of that series from Gabrus’ fantasy books episode of High and Mighty. They mention the “children of the dead seed”, which were basically a berserker army of people begot by witches fucking dead and dying soldiers on a battlefield. Had to look into it after that. Hoping Gabrus reads that in the future. Erikson is a great writer.
I always forget to ask but then the boys never really answer questions anyway.. but anyway, Rodgers: Did that rich kid who went to all the Super Bowls go to all four of the Bills Super Bowl losses? I couldn't fathom that if I were a Bills fan, I feel like I would tell my rich dad I didn't want to go to any Bills Super Bowls after the second one
Emerson forgetful podcast co-hosts.
Hey ABZ, thanks for the tip on Bad Vegan. Watching now. Wife into it.
Stone secretly rewatches that noose scene from Quick and the Dead, and holds onto a sliver of hope that one day she might be able to shoot it.
Phenomenal take. Really spices up the comment
What do people think of winning time? Been a pretty enjoyable watch so far
I love it, it’s my new “look forward to Sunday” show. It’s so well done. Also interesting looking due to how they shot it, they discuss the old camera and techniques they used for certain scenes on the companion podcast.
I also have ~25,000 unread junk emails
Sweater scene
Watched Mayor of Kingstown recently because y'all brought it up. Really enjoyed it. By the end I was just blown away by how insane the show is.
it feels fairly on rails until like the last two episodes where the whole town just turns into a warzone. even before that i was enjoying it because it's a premise i hadn't seen before.
Can confirm the naked Chicago swimming. All our dads growing up had stories.
I believe either the criminal podcast or curious city podcast did a story about boys swimming naked at school in/around Chicago.
Action Boyz and Fanz, today The Dollop podcast, by comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds, dropped part 1 of their 2 part Steven Seagal series.
Holy shit the comedy guy is annoying. Now I know how Rogers felt about Stanger-Bot
who cares if there’s good calls I don’t listen to hear “good” calls I listen to hear you make fun of the filth who call in, the best calls are the shitty ones
Ooooo is Rogers under the weather 🤢 feel better man ❤️🩹
How did you guys get Stallone to guest on the pod? Where’s Rodgers?
the lady with the big vagina in The Godfather is named Lucy? Brilliant
That bleached hair punk is in for a tough time after Happy Harry went off air. His identity was way too tied into being a fan. I can't relate at all.
What i always ask myself about things like Bad Vegan or the Nxivm miniseries is "will I get more out of just reading some wikipedia or news articles than watching this?" Like 90% of docuseries are skippable after 10 minutes of reading
Willeford's The Shark-Infested Custard is a strange and cold book. By design, maybe. But every character is casually sociopathic and distant. Compared to the Moseley books, where every character seems alive and fully colored in. It's a shame Willeford died when it seemed like he was doing some of his best writing.
I just started the Moseley series and I’m already a little sad it’s going to be limited.
They didn't let us have sugar in Basic training so I stole a poptart from the chow hall and ate it in a porto-potty like a rat
I used to house desserts in the restaurant freezer like an animal. Stangerang stylez.
ABZ Library: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/162873.The_Action_Boyz_Library 3 books added: "Leave the Gun, Take The Connoli", "Cockfighter", and some book called "The Godfather"
The nude swimming in public pools for boys was actually a bizarre thing across America, especially at YMCAs, although it quietly died down. The podcast The Dollop did an entire episode about it: ep. 78: The Dark Secret of Swimming Pools
I don’t think bizarre is the right word. It sounds perverted.
I love animals but reading Cockfighter honestly made me think “yeah I could go to one of these fights.”
This comment reminds me of "The Sun Also Rises" which was so good it had me seriously thinking about my feelings on bull fighting. I eventually came back to my original disposition of "nah man, nah."
I'm Team Stanger on the email inbox discussion, sitting here with north of 20K unread messages myself. I'll glance at the subject line to see if things are worth reading, so its not like I'm missing things. Plus I don't have to waste any time managing my inbox. Its great.
I’m sitting at 47,180 on my yahoo right now
Cliff Martinez’ work with Soderbergh is great, especially the score he did for The Knick. That’s a great workout score. Way more talented drummer than Chad Smith too.
I didn’t get how much of a sexy writer’s fantasy the relationship with Nora was until I was an adult. It’s sort of a darker, raunchier, precursor to Manic PDG. The significance of the school stats only hit this watch as before I was purely focused on the show, him not getting caught, and the romance. I think it underplays how vicious a thing to do to someone that is, that they are destroying lives, and all for such short-term self-serving benefit.
Pump Up The Volume was more of an action movie than Pope of Greenwich Village.
Action Boyth? More like Movie Boyth.
Mood: Crying in the shower because of the dedication at the start of Wheel of Time book 12.