Videodrome (1983)
Added 2024-05-13 07:00:03 +0000 UTCThe boyz discuss Videodrome.
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i grew up in Canada watching TV from Detroit and ... it still feels like Canadian TV is from the "other" dimension. Like American TV is normal and Canadian TV is an approximation of that LOL... idk how to explain it....... i do love homegrown media but its got this stink on it like u could tell right away
Emily Tong
2024-12-15 20:32:19 +0000 UTC“Almost 60” is different than 60, let’s be fair to this guy
Tom Nagel
2024-05-24 09:30:53 +0000 UTCOh fuck yea
Wadi
2024-05-23 18:15:01 +0000 UTCI always thought people getting banned was a bit, that’s great lol. Also as a somewhat recent Toronto transplant I love all the “local” movies that get covered on the show. Edit: also my parents had satellite throughout the early 00s. It didn’t cut out for normal rain, but when it was storming or heavy dark clouds it would def shit the bed for a good 10-20 minutes.
Wadi
2024-05-23 18:10:36 +0000 UTCI converted to the new flesh. The RSS feed is still an issue.
Joshua
2024-05-20 20:15:17 +0000 UTCPoutine is pretty big in Toronto now too. Poutineries have really expanded across Canada and pretty much anywhere you can get French fries you can get poutine. Count me in for a Toronto live show. Would love to see you guys come up North.
Brian W
2024-05-20 03:46:54 +0000 UTCI think The Rock is really hoping that Mark Kerr biopic, Smashing Machine, is gonna give him some serious actor cred.
Jack McReynolds
2024-05-20 01:55:05 +0000 UTCwrong
pube
2024-05-18 05:07:02 +0000 UTCAvid Rugby Union and American Football fan here. Louis Rees Zammit is a good rugby player. He's played at the international level (Wales). He plays as a winger, which would probably translate best to a kick returner, O do find it odd that hes listed as a running back. I'd be super interested to see if Andy Reid implements his offloading skills to add more lateral passes to the game. In terms of his skills set, he would probably rank 8-12th in the world at his position. Needless to say, there is a lot more the money in the NFL. So, if Zammit succeeds, some top tier rugby players will more than likely try and make the transition.
Raging Dull
2024-05-16 22:19:28 +0000 UTCDon't jerk me around fella
Bring me the Head of Warren Oates
2024-05-16 16:56:00 +0000 UTCRodgers have you watched any of the media interviews with the new Bill's wr Keon Coleman? He's a great interview I hope he works out for them on the field
Mijo
2024-05-16 16:47:45 +0000 UTCThis movie felt like homework
Fred Skull
2024-05-16 15:18:18 +0000 UTC“I’m me?”
Tom Nagel
2024-05-16 08:38:47 +0000 UTCI’ve got the Criterion DVD of this baby. It looks like a VHS tape with the pirated label to give it that extra level of horror on the bookshelf.
Gwildor_I_Hardly_Knew_Hor
2024-05-15 23:55:47 +0000 UTCLadies fear not, Rodgers actually is returning some videotapes
Ron Don Volante
2024-05-15 12:08:10 +0000 UTCI wanna know what VCR Rodgers has and what TV it’s plugged into
Stuart Rose
2024-05-15 04:04:38 +0000 UTCI want to make a supercut of "dirtbags in movies eating gross pizza in the morning." Off the top of my head, you got James Woods in this, Stallone in Cobra, Arnold in End of Days. I need to research this further...
John Arminio
2024-05-15 00:07:37 +0000 UTCThe punt god that the bills cut is also now on the chiefs. Thanks again Buffalo! Love ya Rodgers
Drake Mcvey
2024-05-14 20:30:51 +0000 UTCThe original cake fart girl used to shop at a hardware store I worked at. Sold her some blinds once
Karate Wolf
2024-05-14 18:22:50 +0000 UTCSpectacular Optical Spec Op Ooo
Bugshit
2024-05-14 14:58:28 +0000 UTCDo you get a Civic TV Channel 83 shirt or a Spectacular Optical shirt?
JamieQT
2024-05-14 14:50:27 +0000 UTCJust one of the guys tits could be best tits of all time rivaled by under siege tits
The Eric Roberts Experience
2024-05-14 14:23:43 +0000 UTC“Paint my office 😏”
Ashley Ayers
2024-05-14 13:05:47 +0000 UTCConfess Fletch was pretty good, all hail the new Fletch
Jon Smith
2024-05-14 06:07:50 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/vP1kZLGG5gw?si=vaI9KRSbNsS1Iyev The prince video Ben was referencing was the song Alphabet Street . Knew it immediately. That collection of his music videos was a mainstay of parties in my high school and college years. Set it and forget it, or just sit enraptured. Prince=GOAT
Chi Rugby Guy
2024-05-14 05:29:35 +0000 UTCI agree with Stanger, body horror is too much for me. Like I get that is artistic and it's not supposed to be pleasing and that's the point of it, but I just don't see myself ever going out of the way to watch that stuff. And I'm a movie buff!
JoBrock Brobama
2024-05-14 04:49:19 +0000 UTCThe trailers are a fun part of vhs collecting, except when it’s just a commercial to buy the movie you are about to watch.
Kris macfalda
2024-05-14 04:32:02 +0000 UTCHey, did I mention Scanner Cop? You guys should do that one.
Don Knott Steiner
2024-05-14 04:29:18 +0000 UTCCakefart gender reveal is a winning idea
Rich Mallon
2024-05-14 04:20:41 +0000 UTCa good videodrome vhs can get up to $100 on eBay
Benjamin Wills
2024-05-14 02:34:50 +0000 UTCJACK CROW
Stephen Navarrete
2024-05-14 01:50:46 +0000 UTCI can’t watch arm wrestling videos on the Internet because of the fly
ryan mcgrath
2024-05-13 23:50:08 +0000 UTCHas Stanger ever had poutine and regardless would he eat it if offered in the present day (like at a restaurant or something not staffed by an ABZ listener or captain podcast)?
Jeff Popp
2024-05-13 23:27:41 +0000 UTCOh, it was just a bad joke, sorry.
Jon Hamre
2024-05-13 22:59:16 +0000 UTCBaby Blue 2, I remember it well
Mike Dickson
2024-05-13 22:54:59 +0000 UTCThe Boyz made the exact same joke about Debbie Harry's name being a different reference to the old 'Blondie' comic strip? I listened to the whole episode before I made my wisecrack, but must have missed it. My apologies.
Doctor Unk
2024-05-13 22:46:49 +0000 UTCThe ABZ talked about the reduction of the space program in the last several decades decades - I think it's partly for a Videodrome-ish reason; people stopped watching the missions on TV.
Triumph44
2024-05-13 22:01:17 +0000 UTCGwildor - with the caveat that it'd have to be Gwildor holding hands with Dar.
Nathan Rodriguez
2024-05-13 21:31:57 +0000 UTCFor some reason, I felt like I had seen this movie before because the industrial bands that I liked in the early 90's all sampled this movie. Funny that I had never seen it until now. Snippets from this movie show up in Cyberaktif's 1991 album Tenebrae Vision. Specifically "That's your head in this box" on Dis Coarse Illusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH0POZMbqX8 ... also "See you in Pittsburgh" at the end of Face to Face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ptBAdnqK4
Nathan Rodriguez
2024-05-13 21:15:45 +0000 UTCWhy don’t you go back and listen at 2:01:00 and they’ll say that very thing, bud.
Jon Hamre
2024-05-13 20:24:13 +0000 UTCfelt so blueballed when rodgers didn’t give his thoughts on challengers
Emma
2024-05-13 19:37:32 +0000 UTCMuch appreciated!
Rich Kelly
2024-05-13 19:27:45 +0000 UTCSpeaking of Japanese story structure, I was teching for this guy at The Crowd in Chicago (RIP Crowdheads) who's whole bit was having the audience pick a movie on Netflix, watching the first 15 minutes, and then jumping to the last 30 and doing a sort of Riff Trax over the end of the movie. An audience picked some random Japanese movie. The first 15 minutes was just girls walking to school talking to each other. He then jumped to the last 30 minutes, and there were wizards, witches, giant monsters, and deep conversations about the nature of the universe all drenched in the trashiest CGI special effects. The host was all cocky up top and then was at a loss for words during the part where he was supposed to riff. We mostly sat in silence watching the movie.
Irvin
2024-05-13 19:06:01 +0000 UTCCityTV and CFNY were the main reasons i didn't turn into a Letterkenny cliche like the rest of my small town
eponymouse_ponymouse
2024-05-13 19:01:44 +0000 UTCi would've bet good money that The Fly or Existenz would be the first Cronenberg
eponymouse_ponymouse
2024-05-13 18:58:31 +0000 UTCThere'd be nothing but jungle, then a glimmer... Then you'd have your ding dong gone.
Buddy Jones
2024-05-13 18:57:21 +0000 UTCDistinctly remember overly windy or rainy weather knocking out the tv at a sports bar i worked at with a sat dish
MB
2024-05-13 18:44:43 +0000 UTCI immediately fell in love with James Woods’ secretary. Super gorgeous.
David Bauer
2024-05-13 18:43:27 +0000 UTCYou don’t run into Captain Podcast in the woods, you’ll never see him coming. While standing in a shallow stream, taking a leak, worrying about tiny fish swimming up stream, you will just find yourself with your ding dong ripped off.
Swimfan69
2024-05-13 18:40:51 +0000 UTCHearing rumors that the new Zombie Squad update is a 'Fuck a Fan' tier.
Scott Tammel
2024-05-13 18:39:56 +0000 UTCCheeky to do this before Scanners.
Irvin
2024-05-13 18:28:48 +0000 UTCSkip Scanners and watch Scanner Cop instead
Berko Pierce
2024-05-13 18:27:59 +0000 UTC2nd most humiliating hand job in cinema, sandwiched between Wong Kar Wai's The Hand and Green Knight.
Irvin
2024-05-13 18:27:42 +0000 UTCBlondie was the doctors name
Sam Riebesehl (Reeb-Uh-Shell)
2024-05-13 18:19:20 +0000 UTCThat’s awesome, I bought that vinyl last year. Great art man!
Sam Riebesehl (Reeb-Uh-Shell)
2024-05-13 17:36:20 +0000 UTCWhen I was a teenager, my girlfriend at the time worked at the CVS where James Woods would pick up his mother’s prescriptions. He’d always hit on my girlfriend’s 15-year-old coworker; He was almost 60. They only knew James Woods as a voice from ‘Family Guy’—so I remember watching this movie, ‘Salvador’, ‘Once Upon a Time in America’, and ‘The Virgin Suicides’ for context.
Frank Kimball
2024-05-13 17:05:43 +0000 UTCHoly Bane voice, Batman.
FiddlersGreenDay
2024-05-13 16:56:00 +0000 UTCRogers would have definitely appreciated this regular event in CityTV programming calendar during the 80’s and 90’s https://youtu.be/TgFoWKNeOw4?si=5KxZ-U4pdeRDvn-a
Canadian Day Player
2024-05-13 16:51:37 +0000 UTCCityTv! It was awesome. Rodgers I wonder if it made it to Buffalo? Had fun shows they created like Fashion Television with Jeanie Becker, Ed The Sock (sock puppet interview show) MuchMusic (our MTV), any of this make it down there?
Identical Quinns
2024-05-13 16:37:41 +0000 UTCHey Actionboyz, I'm an illustrator and have been fortunate to work on a number of Cronenberg and Howard Shore vinyl releases, including Videodrome --> https://www.rfkelly.com/videodrome/ I'd be happy to send a box of records your way as thank you for all the laughs
Rich Kelly
2024-05-13 16:29:35 +0000 UTCRyan is so sweet when he is thinking about the audience worried you guys hate us lol ❤️
Kat soh
2024-05-13 16:20:14 +0000 UTCScanner Cop
Don Knott Steiner
2024-05-13 16:19:01 +0000 UTCMoses Znaimer father of the real life inspiration for Civic TV, who had also been a student of Marshall McLuhan at UofT in the 60’s, serving some Max Renn realness https://youtu.be/_MfIkYNw7do?si=l2ZVxVYz0StqMYSZ
Canadian Day Player
2024-05-13 16:16:34 +0000 UTCI recently read Mel Brooks autobiography and he described Mario Puzo as cartoonish glutton who devoured dagwoods at group luncheons. Brooks said that nobody would have any leftovers because Puzo ate off of everyone’s plate Also Brooks’ company produced Cronenberg’s Fly (0 out of 7,000 found this interesting)
Joe B
2024-05-13 16:04:03 +0000 UTCActually, that's a common misconception. "Blondie" is the name of the band; the blonde female singer is named "Dagwood."
Doctor Unk
2024-05-13 15:37:23 +0000 UTCRewatching now… is father o blivion the same guy who talks about the “cubbies” in back to the future 2? I refuse to google it.
David McElroy
2024-05-13 15:29:13 +0000 UTCIf I was gonna choose one giant to suffocate me, I'd go with Jeremy Shockey.
Gil Slits
2024-05-13 15:24:26 +0000 UTCWeird coincidence that this episode dropped the day they released a quick teaser for his new movie “The Shrouds” which will debut at Cannes in a couple days
Sam Riebesehl (Reeb-Uh-Shell)
2024-05-13 15:13:50 +0000 UTC“My monkey’s out of charge” 🤣🤣🤣
Paul Perez
2024-05-13 15:00:11 +0000 UTCI watched The Generals Daughter. He is scummy and irritating so it’s not a deal breaker.
VHSMIA
2024-05-13 14:55:23 +0000 UTChttps://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis/ So I saw the mission patch for this future flight to the moon and read up. If you skim it, it looks hopefully, but the realities y’all talked about does dim the possibilities.
VHSMIA
2024-05-13 14:51:34 +0000 UTCWe named our newish puppy Debbie Hairy, so this is quite timely.
Adam Kronfeld
2024-05-13 14:37:11 +0000 UTCFinally 😭 fucking finally 😭
PizzaCrustPunk
2024-05-13 14:36:23 +0000 UTCMy perception of this film is intertwined with being a teenager watching it in the dark, by myself after midnight, on Pay TV in my parent’s basement. As a Gen X Toronto kid, Videodrome has a special place in my heart by fusing Burroughs, Ballard, video nasties, Canuxploitation and our local 70’s and 80’s media culture (CityTV, Marshall McLuhan, porn fear). The brown and grey Spring / Fall tones of the cinematography captures how Toronto is overcast for half of the year.
Canadian Day Player
2024-05-13 14:24:54 +0000 UTCSouthern Ontario kid representing. CityTV was the cool Toronto station that'd show B-movies and softcore late night. Check out a very ABZ promo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9GZl3Z_kJE and a Baby Blue promo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z_MdEygB1Y There's a bunch of chill street content too, if you're down for an ambient tour of mid-'80s Toronto at night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zkl2S7kAZM&t=130s
eponymouse_ponymouse
2024-05-13 13:45:33 +0000 UTCStill need to see that one. But I did see Infinity Pool. Thought that was pretty good. Great performance from Mia Goth
Sam Riebesehl (Reeb-Uh-Shell)
2024-05-13 13:33:54 +0000 UTCPossessor is one of my recent favorites.
PatrickKilbrogan
2024-05-13 13:10:44 +0000 UTCI see that James Woods is trending on Twitter. I am not going to click and find out why, and just assume it is because this episode dropped.
David D.
2024-05-13 13:05:22 +0000 UTCAnyone catch Cronenbergs daughter Caitlins first film “Humane”? It had a limited theatrical run a couple weeks ago. It’ll probably be streaming soon. It looks fun, and nepo baby discussions aside, I like that his kids are out there directing weird movies, keeping the family legacy alive
Sam Riebesehl (Reeb-Uh-Shell)
2024-05-13 13:03:16 +0000 UTCCan’t wait for the “Apollo and Dionysus” Shadow Wolves this month
PatrickKilbrogan
2024-05-13 13:01:02 +0000 UTCI was so concerned that Stanger was going to be buried forever... he deserves two kisses this week.
HappyBirthdayPaulie
2024-05-13 12:41:40 +0000 UTCIf you're alone in the woods would you rather run into a random Gwildor or any Captain Podcast?
bloodflart
2024-05-13 11:33:09 +0000 UTCCoenanuary
bloodflart
2024-05-13 11:31:14 +0000 UTCRemember that video of Captain Podcast fucking that frog? That really made the rounds back in the day
Gilligan(The marooned Ranchero)
2024-05-13 11:28:34 +0000 UTCI am the ActionBoyzPod made flesh.
JoeGroganExperience
2024-05-13 10:36:54 +0000 UTCJames Woods is really good at playing a dirt bag—on and off screen.
Paul
2024-05-13 10:35:23 +0000 UTCThis is my favourite podcast that references livejasmin.
Adam Lane
2024-05-13 10:35:12 +0000 UTCDo you guys think there's enough action in Barton Fink for it to get an episode?
B. Traven
2024-05-13 09:44:02 +0000 UTCNot much to say. I'm glad this gave me a reason to watch this, I enjoyed it some. I can confirm those little cable satellite dishes from the late 90s early 00s absolutely stopped working in heavy rain
Former Janitor
2024-05-13 08:35:45 +0000 UTCMinute 34 was like a well-needed hug
Julian Neuweiler
2024-05-13 08:16:49 +0000 UTCJames Woods my favorite California democrat
Devon Gravert
2024-05-13 07:47:48 +0000 UTCStomach-vagina gun
Alex Northrop
2024-05-13 07:21:45 +0000 UTC
