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GOIN' COMMANDOBONUS: THE JUDGMENT NIGHT SOUNDTRACKIt's often called one of the few movie soundtracks that's better than the movie itself. But IS IT? James and I called back to our season 2 episode about JUDGMENT NIGHT (the movie) and discussed the JUDGMENT NIGHT soundtrack, famous for its collaborations between rock bands and hip-hop artists. James had a surprising opinion about the Slayer / Ice-T collab and an even more surprising opinion about Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, De La Soul, and Cypress Hill. We wondered aloud if Eddie Vedder even showed up for Pearl Jam's sessions for their song, which dovetailed into a drubbing of Vedder's many...2023-05-061h 05GOIN' COMMANDOBONUS: TRUE LIES THE TV SHOWAs a nice bit of symmetry with the season 2 finale, and some bonus content to tide y'all over while we work on season 3, we donned our hard hats, cleaned the Burger King wrappers out of our lunch pails, and returned to the podcast mines to discuss the pilot of the new CBS series TRUE LIES starring Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga as Harry and Helen Tasker. We talked about some of the callbacks to the movie in the episode, as well as some of the, shall we say, lightening up of the proceedings to make it palatable for Gramma...2023-03-1556 minGOIN' COMMANDO#40: TRUE LIES (1994)It's the Season 2 finale and for this one we went big. Real big. We're talking about Box Office Jim himself.
We convened IN PERSON for the only time this season to watch one of our favorite movies of all time: 1994's TRUE LIES starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, and Bill Paxton, directed by James Cameron. We did our best through a few beers and a few hits to try and distill what makes this movie an action classic: It's basically a live-action cartoon with big-time set pieces, amazing practical effects and stunts, and plenty...2023-01-231h 46
GOIN' COMMANDO#39: EL MARIACHI (1992)It's the penultimate episode of Season 2 and the boys are headed *BONG* south of the border for our first-ever viewing of Robert Rodriguez' directorial debut, 1992's EL MARIACHI. The legacy of this movie, and the star director it created, loom over its content which...well...isn't very good. BUT considering what had to happen to get it made, and the way in which it was made, with no crew, no trained actors and a $7,000 budget, it's kind of a triumph. We get into all of that plus discussions about hot bevs, Yeti tumblers, Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous stogies video, we...2023-01-161h 07GOIN' COMMANDO#38: RUNAWAY TRAIN (1985)This week on the show we were totally floored by Andrei Konchalovsky's 1985 thriller RUNAWAY TRAIN starring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, and Rebecca De Mornay. It's the first (and possibly last) movie we've done for the show in which actors—in this case both Roberts and Voight—were actually nominated for Academy Awards for their performances. In between the white-knuckle scenes on said runaway train, which are some of the most stunningly intense we've ever seen, there's a quiet character drama happening that's well-directed and brilliantly acted. Like James said on the show, "this is highbrow shit." We did our best...2023-01-091h 41GOIN' COMMANDO#37: JUDGMENT NIGHT (1993)This week in the podcast mines we dig up a 1993 movie that's arguably less famous than its soundtrack: JUDGMENT NIGHT starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy Piven, Stephen Dorff, and Denis Leary as a gang leader (?). Play the opening riff because the boys are back in town, that town being Chicago, which to their four suburban brains looks like a warzone. On their way to a boxing match they take an ill-advised shortcut which embroils them in an ongoing street war in which "Leave No Witnesses" is one of the rules. The chase then ensues and takes a...2023-01-021h 15GOIN' COMMANDO#36: TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985)The boys are back in town, and by town we mean Los Angeles and boys we mean us. This week we dove headfirst into William Friedkin's 1985 neo-noir TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. starring William Petersen as Secret Service agent Richard Chance and Willem Dafoe as counterfeit kingpin Rick Masters. Going in blind, you'd think this movie would be a paint-by-numbers collision course between a good government guy whose only vice is BASE jumping and a bad guy who artfully crafts phony twenty dollar bills and kills anyone who gets in the way of his enterprise. What actually...2022-12-261h 26GOIN' COMMANDO#35: RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995)Last year the boys were wowed by POLICE STORY so it's only natural that this season we return to Jackie Chan's filmography with his American breakthrough, RUMBLE IN THE BRONX. This movie is long on great stunts but extremely short on plot so we do what we do best: fill time by getting weird with it. Bryne does a lot of impressions including Owen Wilson, Donald Trump, and Beetlejuice. James does his best Alex Jones. We talk about hypothetically getting a cease and desist from Steven Seagal which dovetails into writing a movie for him in which he doesn't...2022-12-191h 27GOIN' COMMANDO#34: PASSENGER 57 (1992)This week on the show we discuss the 1992 Wesley Snipes "Die Hard on a plane" action movie PASSENGER 57 and its many, many, MANY nut shots. Seriously, so many nuts get kicked in you'd think this was a Farrelly Brothers movie. We dive nut-first into that, dissect other aspects of the movie's action setpieces good and bad, and respectfully fawn over Elizabeth Hurley, who James likes so much he goes way beyond nut shots.
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2022-12-121h 48GOIN' COMMANDO#33: FALLING DOWN (1993)It's another James Shoehorned Special as we tackle, at his behest, the 1993 Joel Schumacher thriller FALLING DOWN starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall as two men on very different paths. One is having the worst day ever according to him, the other is just trying to get through his last day before a somewhat reluctant retirement. We talk about what this movie is really trying to say about America, capitalism, mental health, toxic masculinity and how those coalesce into a guy like Mr. DFENS, as well as how his actions might be interpreted differently, shall we say, as teenagers...2022-12-051h 41GOIN' COMMANDO#32: BLIND FURY (1989)If you got into a fight with a blind man, who would win? What if said blind man was a sword-wielding, jungle-hardened Vietnam veteran? That's on the table this week as we discuss BLIND FURY starring Rutger Hauer. Of course there's a montage. Of course there are freakishly stupid con men and their even stupider henchmen. OF COURSE there's an annoying kid who forms a bond with the protagonist. But also, consider this: a cop gets his hand chopped off. There's a swordfight around and in a hot tub. There's a blind man badly driving. This movie is not...2022-11-281h 28GOIN' COMMANDO#31: DEMOLITION MAN (1993)Hold on to your crunchwraps: this week the Goin' Commando Boys are visiting the not-too-distant future in the metropolis known as San Angeles and the 1993 sci-fi action DEMOLITION MAN, where all vices are illegal, including chocolate, drugs, alcohol, swearing, sex, and everything else that makes life worth living. One man's utopian paradise is another man's fascistic hellscape. The symbolism here isn't very deep but we get into it anyway. We also talk about the goo Sylvester Stallone's character John Spartan is frozen in for 37 years. We basically gush over how entertaining Wesley Snipes is as Simon Phoenix. We hypothesize...2022-11-211h 30GOIN' COMMANDO#30: HEAT (1995)An epic movie deserves an epic(ally long) podcast and that's what we give you—whether you wanted it or not—with this week's dive into Michael Mann's 1995 classic HEAT, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Al Pacino, Ashley Judd, Danny Trejo, Kevin Gage, Henry Rollins, Dennis Haysbert, Hank Azaria, Tone Loc, DR. JEREMY PIVEN, and the list goes on and on and on. A three-hour epic with two protagonists who are more alike than they initially think, we dive into everything that makes HEAT one of the greatest movies—regardless of genre—of all time. Di...2022-11-141h 52GOIN' COMMANDO#29: THE PERFECT WEAPON (1991)A shoehorned special! James insisted we tackle this forgotten 1991 Jeff Speakman movie THE PERFECT WEAPON. It's maybe the only kenpo action movie ever made in America. It has a soup-thin plot. The acting is not good. Literally no woman speaks in the entire movie even though Mariska Hargitay is like second billed. BUT, Bryne and James learned a lot about Speakman's story, his personal life, his battles and...he seems like a really nice guy. We tried to take it easy on him. Listen to find out how we did.
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We kick off our new season with, what else, an Arnold movie. Not just any Arnold movie, but Bryne's favorite Arnold movie, the 1990 sci-fi classic TOTAL RECALL directed by Paul Verhoeven (the master). Bryne explains *why* it's his favorite Arnold movie and brings up some symbolism that James admits he may not have considered. For example, uh, is Mars supposed to be Hell? Or is Earth Hell? Are they BOTH different Hells? We talk about how...2022-10-311h 25
GOIN' COMMANDO#27: FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996)Better late than never, 🎃SPOOKY SEASON🎃 wraps up at GOIN' COMMANDO HQ with a look back at 1996's FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring George Clooney, Harvey Keitel and Quentin Tarantino, who also wrote the screenplay. We dive into our sexual awakenings brought on by Salma Hayek, roast Tarantino for his severe lack of acting skills as well as his foot thing, and Bryne says the word "pussy" far more than he is really comfortable doing. We discuss this movie's disjointedness from its first half to the second half, and of course, we talk about the va...2021-11-031h 18GOIN' COMMANDO#26: MANIAC COP (1988)🎃SPOOKY SEASON🎃 rolls on at GOIN' COMMANDO HQ as Bryne and James dive into the 1988 B-movie action horror flick MANIAC COP starring Tom Atkins (the King), Bruce Campbell (the other King), and Robert Z'Dar as the titular character, a zombie-esque being who is either back from the dead to seek vengeance on City Hall for jailing him, who never died at all and is now just severely brain damaged (leading to some clunky-looking kills), or from outer space. It's never really explained how Matt Cordell is impervious to bullets, yet was killed in prison by knives, maybe in the sequel...2021-10-181h 02GOIN' COMMANDO#25: THEY LIVE (1988)It's officially 🎃SPOOKY SEASON🎃 on GOIN' COMMANDO as the boys ring in October with a deep dive into John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic THEY LIVE starring Rowdy Roddy Piper. This movie obviously had a lot to say about the political and economic climate of Reagan's America and we do our best to contextualize it for then and now. We talk about the homelessness epidemic in America and the way we've always been taught directly or indirectly to interact with and acknowledge our unhoused neighbors. We discuss the naivete of the average American then and now, as well as how badly mental...2021-10-041h 22GOIN' COMMANDO#24: THE PROFESSIONAL (1994)***Content warning: this episode contains discussions about sexual assault and pedophilia.***
On this episode of the show the boys watched two different cuts of Luc Besson's 1994 action thriller THE PROFESSIONAL: the theatrical cut released in America, as well as the extended cut that adds a considerable amount of time and depth to the story. Bryne and James compare the two cuts, explore the unique, uncomfortable relationship between Leon and Mathilda, give praise to the kings Gary Oldman and Danny Aiello, and wonder aloud how an adult man could love milk so much. We also talk about Besson's s...2021-09-201h 20GOIN' COMMANDO#23: POLICE STORY (1985)It's long past time we cover the work of the master on GOIN' COMMANDO and that gets rectified this week when we dive into the 1985 classic Hong Kong action movie POLICE STORY starring Jackie Chan, who also wrote, directed and yeah, did his own damn stunts. James tries to medically diagnose Chan as we wonder aloud what would drive a man to suffer for his art to this degree. We talk about the chaotic opening scene in the shanty town, the frantic shopping mall end that yielded the most broken glass in movie history. We pay respect to Chan's...2021-09-061h 08GOIN' COMMANDO#22: TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)FOLKS!!! We told you we'd be back to discuss the best sequel ever made after diving deep into 1984's THE TERMINATOR a couple weeks back and here it is. The boys don their best pleather jackets and sunglasses to talk about what it was like being a kid when Arnold and the Terminator character were engulfing all other pop culture around them. We discuss the big tonal differences between the two movies, highlight character growth and give props to Robert Patrick for one of the most terrifying performances in movie history. James did his homework for this one and...2021-08-231h 32GOIN' COMMANDO#21: THE TERMINATOR (1984)It's a big week on GOIN' COMMANDO as the boys tackle one of the most influential movies of the 1980s, James Cameron's THE TERMINATOR. The show begins with a prepared essay from Bryne about the movie, which then dovetails into our usual bullshit, sidebars, and sidebars to sidebars. We discuss OJ Simpson of all people potentially being in the running to play the Terminator, we draw parallels between this movie and the slashers that came before it and influenced it, we pour one out for Michael Biehn, we dissect the movie's practical effects, and really, we try to hone...2021-08-091h 17GOIN' COMMANDO#20: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)Folks, on this week's episode we go back—waaaaaaay back—to 1981 to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the John Carpenter classic ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK starring Kurt Russell in the now-iconic role of Snake Plissken. Snake is the most nihilistic, misanthropic action hero in movie history, but he has to save the President from Manhattan—now a maximum-security prison—or his neck will explode. Cool! We discuss everything that made this movie so influential, ruminate on its supporting cast and wonder if GCW Champion Nick Gage could beat Slag in a deathmatch. Plus, we talk about porn parodies, wonder i...2021-07-261h 15GOIN' COMMANDO#19: IN THE LINE OF FIRE (1993)We told you we'd be back! After a small sabbatical Bryne and James return to discuss the 1993 political thriller IN THE LINE OF FIRE starring Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich. Malkovich was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role, which is worth noting since this is probably the only movie we will ever do for this show in which someone acting in it was nominated for an Oscar. He's great, obviously, a slimy, sadistic assassin who—get this—is trying to KILL THE PRESIDENT with only a doddering old Secret Service agent in his way...2021-07-121h 18GOIN' COMMANDO#18: I COME IN PEACE (1990)It's the most chaotic episode in the long, storied history of GOIN' COMMANDO as Bryne and James convene in person again—this time, with 100% more tequila shots. The boys sit a respectable distance from each other and discuss the 1990 action sci-fi thriller I COME IN PEACE, starring Dolph Lundgren as tough Houston cop Jack Caine. Caine is investigating a series of drug-related murders, as well as a group of white-collar dealers literally named The White Boys, but what he *doesn't* know is...there are aliens there, also.
We dive into everything that makes this movie a fun wat...2021-06-141h 35GOIN' COMMANDO#17: THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (1996)It's a big milestone for the boys as they record IN PERSON for the first time ever! What better way to do that than by discussing the 1996 Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson action comedy THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT!!!
Bryne and James also discuss COVID vaccine side effects, Mr. Skin, Roger Ebert, scrambled porn, Bryne ordering porn on PPV as a teenager and his dad's reaction, Brian Cox, the bloated CIA budget, Hollywood's ageism toward older actresses and a lot more.
2021-05-311h 26GOIN' COMMANDO#16: POINT BREAK (1991)POINT BREAK turns 30 in a couple months and what better way to celebrate an absolute classic than to riff on it! On this episode we talk about everything that turns this movie into something uniquely sublime: Patrick Swayze's legendary, intoxicating turn as Bodhi; Keanu Reeves' still-green take on Johnny Utah; Gary Busey's all-time role as Agent Pappas; and Kathryn Bigelow's ingenious direction and writing that elevated this movie to a classic that's still talked about today. Plus Bryne makes a case for this being the most Saggittarius-centric movie of all time. We also talk about the point of view...2021-05-171h 31GOIN' COMMANDO#15: THE DELTA FORCE (1986)Folks, it was only a matter of time until we broached the subject of Hollywood's favorite conservative not named Kelsey Grammar, Kirk Cameron, James Woods or Scott Baio. It's roundhouse kick artist and noted dweeb Chuck Norris and one of his most successful movies, 1986's THE DELTA FORCE. This is a chaotic episode: We dive into the world in which this movie was made, where Reagan ruled, America was conducting covert operations around the world, and yuppies were rebelling against their hippy parents by working at hedge funds, driving sports cars, snorting cocaine, and cheering on Gordon Gekko without...2021-05-031h 30GOIN' COMMANDO#14: STONE COLD (1991)On this episode we dive deep into a movie that's been largely lost to time, 1991's STONE COLD, starring ex-NFL linebacker Brian Bosworth in his movie debut as a tough cop who goes undercover to infiltrate a white supremacist biker gang led by Chains Cooper, played by the King, Lance Henriksen. STONE COLD bombed upon its release and arguably derailed the movie career of the Boz before it could even leave the station, and, watching this thing it's kind of easy to see why. It's a derivative, disjointed, bloody mess with a wooden performance from Bosworth, but Henriksen is...2021-04-191h 27GOIN' COMMANDO#13: TANGO & CASH (1989)Unlucky number 13 and it's a doozy! On this episode of the pod the boys dive into what Bryne refers to as a "dollar menu Lethal Weapon," 1989's TANGO & CASH starring Sylvester Stallone as a highly serious Beverly Hills cop (no, not *that* one) and Kurt Russell as his loose cannon counterpart. There's a lot to like here, primarily the chemistry between the two leads, but there's also a lot of tonally odd things in this movie that make it feel disjointed and like two very different movies sandwiched together. Bryne and James discuss that, as well as Cash's boot...2021-04-051h 22
GOIN' COMMANDO#12: ROAD HOUSE (1989)It's the movie that made Patrick Swayze an action star, and honestly probably kept basic cable afloat in the 1990s. ROAD HOUSE! On this episode, the boys go nipple to nipple and dive deep into what makes this movie, uh, not necessarily that good, but infinitely rewatchable despite its glaring flaws. It's got sex appeal from Swayze and Sam Elliott, the weirdest one-liners in action movie history (which is really saying something), an unbelievable antagonist, (MacGruber voice) throat rips, and bar fights. So many goddamn bar fights. Justice for Keith David.
Plus, Bryne tells James about his...2021-03-221h 30
GOIN' COMMANDOPREVIEW: THE ONE WITH THE DUMP TRUCK FULL OF CUMOur next episode is about ROAD HOUSE and drops next Monday 3/22. Check out this little preview in which Bryne paints a nightmare scenario to James—or a fantasy, depending on what you're into.
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GOIN' COMMANDO#11: PREDATOR 2 (1990)After covering PREDATOR last week, at James' behest, we're doing its sequel immediately after—plus releasing the episode a week early. You're welcome!
1990's PREDATOR 2 couldn't be any more different from its predecessor: the cast, the setting, the tone, really the only constant is the Predator itself. We dive into all those contrasts, as well as the cast, including Danny Glover as loose cannon cop Mike Harrigan, Gary Busey's turn as the steely Agent Keys, and Bill Paxton (RIP King) as Jerry Lambert. We talk about the movie's urban setting (along with its broad stereotypes) and how we...2021-03-081h 23
GOIN' COMMANDO#10: PREDATOR (1987)It's the big 1-0! What a milestone for our dumb little show. To mark it we return to the king, Arnold Schwarzenegger, for the first time since our inaugural episode with one of his career-defining roles, 1987's PREDATOR directed by John McTiernan. This is a movie that James knows like the back of his hand it shows (Bryne, not so much, and in fact Bryne appears to be confused about the Predator's existence and motivations. Classic overthinker). James tells a very sweet story about his history with PREDATOR that in a way, put him on a path we're currently...2021-03-011h 22
GOIN' COMMANDOPREVIEW: PREDATOR (1987), or THE BALLAD OF LANE THE MILKMANIn this preview the boys discuss the porn career of PREDATOR character actor Sonny Landham. Are you a Huntington Van Huff or a Lane The Milkman?
Full episode coming Monday 2/22!
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GOIN' COMMANDO#9: HARD BOILED (1992)Continuing the trend set the other week with NIKITA, for this episode the boys sat down and watched a foreign action movie they'd never seen before. Better late than never: John Woo's HARD BOILED is a stone cold classic which took Hong Kong action to dizzying heights and probably set some kind of unofficial record for bullets spent and bodies slain. This movie is bonkers; creative, kinetic, and artistic in a way that a lot of action movies simply are not. It obviously influenced dozens of movies that came after it. We talk about all of that, plus acknowledge...2021-02-151h 30
GOIN' COMMANDOPREVIEW: THESE DUDES SHOT THIS MOVIE IN GOD MODEA little preview of our next full episode about 1992 classic HARD BOILED in which James and Bryne comment on how gunshots don't seem to hurt the main characters very much. Full episode coming next Monday, 2/15!
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Email the show: goincommandopod@gmail.com2021-02-0805 min
GOIN' COMMANDO#8: NIKITA (1990)This episode of the pod marks a few milestones: It's our first dissection of a foreign action film, with a female lead, that neither of us had seen before. But watching NIKITA, it's clear how much it has stylistically influenced modern action/spy/thriller cinema. We talk about that with regards to its direction, cinematography and acting, as well as how it differs from more masculine American fare by being basically a tragic love story about loneliness more than anything else. We also discuss Nikita's relationships with Bob and Marco, and her transformation from a feral street punk to...2021-02-011h 09
GOIN' COMMANDOPREVIEW: LA FEMME NIKITA, COMING UP NEXT RIGHT AFTER MONDAY NIGHT RAW ON USAWhile talking about the 1990 French action classic NIKITA, James and Bryne reminisce about the Attitude Era and steamy USA Network original programming. Full episode coming Monday!
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Email the show: goincommandopod@gmail.com2021-01-2503 min
GOIN' COMMANDO🚨EMERGENCY BONUS POD: SOME KIND OF HEAVEN (2021) 🚨Bryne and James assemble on their day off from the podcasting mines to discuss SOME KIND OF HEAVEN, the new documentary that tells three stories from The Villages, central Florida's massive, master-planned retirement community. Having grown up in Central Florida, the boys have a unique perspective on the setting, its people, and the state as a whole. We get into that, as well as people thinking of Florida as a meme, the parallels between The Villages and Disney World, The Villages' made-up history, the War on Drugs, Reggie's eccentricities, Dennis' sad sleaziness, Barbara's somewhat redemptive narrative and much, much...2021-01-2054 min
GOIN' COMMANDO#7: ABOVE THE LAW (1988)It was bound to happen. As we traverse the mean streets of '80s and '90s action stars, you have your Arnolds, your Van Dammes, your Stallones. And then you have the other guys. One of those guys is Steven Seagal, unfortunately.
On this episode of the pod the boys dive into Seagal's first movie, ABOVE THE LAW, which as James astutely points out, set the blueprint for literally every single movie he would ever do after this. There's a lot happening, here: an overstuffed plot full of baddie CIA agents running drugs, awkward churchy family...2021-01-181h 35
GOIN' COMMANDOPREVIEW! A FRANK DISCUSSION ABOUT STEVEN SEAGAL: LAWMANJames explains Steven Seagal: Lawman to Bryne.
Full-length episode covering Steven Seagal's 1988 debut ABOVE THE LAW coming this Monday, January 18!
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GOIN' COMMANDO#6: COBRA (1986)It's a big milestone on the pod: the first truly bad movie. as James and Bryne dive into 1986's COBRA, starring Sylvester Stallone as Marion Cobretti, a tough cop whose dour demeanor is just as off-putting as his pizza eating habits. We discuss all the other weird food things in COBRA, too--gummy bears? Check. Hospital cake? Check. Eating an apple with leather gloves on? CHECK!!! We also talk about Stallone going from almost doing BEVERLY HILLS COP to rewriting the script with none of the humor left in for COBRA; Stallone being inspired by Bruce Springsteen when creating COBRA...2021-01-041h 36
GOIN' COMMANDO#5: DIE HARD (1988)It's part two of our Christmas chronicles and we saved the best for last: DIE HARD! The 1988 blockbuster put Bruce Willis on the map, was Alan Rickman's first movie ever, and, after nearly ten years of muscled-up bloody madness, redefined what action movies can be. We dive into all of that, plus key scenes featuring classic 1980s Guys like William Atherton and Paul Gleason, Jan de Bont's cinematography, and the genesis (or at least modern popularization) of the everyman action hero. And yes, James has a convincing argument for why this is a Christmas movie too. We also discuss...2020-12-211h 36GOIN' COMMANDO#4: LETHAL WEAPON (1987)It's a tentpole of the action genre, a movie that spawned a thousand imitators. Some of its lines are *still* a big part of the lexicon (you know, the one about being too old for this shit, etc.). And yes--it's a Christmas movie. On this episode of the pod we dissect key scenes in 1987's LETHAL WEAPON while considering alternate universes in which Bruce Willis plays Riggs and Bob Hoskins plays Murtaugh, plus the chemistry between Mel Gibson and Danny Glover and how their performances and differences skyrocketed the buddy cop action movie as an art form and launched...2020-12-071h 39GOIN' COMMANDO#3: BLOODSPORT (1988)The pod makes its first foray into martial arts movies with 1988's BLOODSPORT. It's the movie that made Jean-Claude Van Damme a household name despite its many shortcomings: an overly simple plot, wooden acting and unearned relationships. James and Bryne slow-motion roundhouse kick all of those topics, plus we discuss our own scars, superficial and emotional; astrology (our birthdays are coming up BTW); JCVD's butt and his seeming willingness to engage in BDSM-adjacent movie scenes, how Frank Dux' final fight with Chong Li is like a pro wrestling storyline, and more! We also discuss the real Frank Dux, a...2020-11-301h 37GOIN' COMMANDO#2: SEAN CONNERY DOUBLE FEATURE! NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983) & THE ROCK (1996)With Sir Sean Connery passing away on Oct. 31, James and Bryne take a look back at two of his greatest roles. First, his final turn as James Bond in 1983's NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN--he was older, wetter, but wiser (and still a "panty dropper" in James' words). We discuss the film's non-canonical nature, whether or not we've ever had urine thrown in our faces, the dark web, an underwater fight scene with a shark, James Bond suddenly being a gamer, Fatima Blush's INSISTENCE on the world knowing that she fucks good, an exploding pen, XT7Bs and more. Then...2020-11-162h 44GOIN' COMMANDO#1: COMMANDO (1985)For the inaugural episode of GOIN' COMMANDO co-hosts Bryne and James tackle the inspiration for the show's name: the 1985 action thriller COMMANDO starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's the movie that cemented Arnold as a bankable action star. It has a bad plot, bad acting, a completely unbelievable antagonist and probably the most unintentionally comedic one-liners the genre has ever seen. We discuss all of that, as well as the movie's creative cursing, cursing in front of children, extreme close-ups of Arnold's wet muscles, scenes that just seemed shoehorned in to establish that Arnold was a big strong man, Bryne's confusion...2020-11-022h 07
GOIN' COMMANDOEP. 1 PREVIEW: HOW TO SAY MOTHERFUCKERGOIN' COMMANDO kicks off with a review of, what else, COMMANDO (1985). In this preview, James and Bryne discuss the unique cursing in the movie, as well as their own, uh, evolution as potty mouths. Full episode coming real soon!
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Generic Insight: The PodcastEpisode #21 w/ Bryne Yancey (TheRunout.com blog) & year-end listsIn this episode, I chatted via Skype (admist terrible echo, sorry) with my pal Bryne Yancey about his blog, The Runout, social anxiety in punk, briefly devlving into a serious conversation about much-needed discussions surrounding oppressions that marginalized groups (i.e. non white, non-male, etc) within the punk community feel. Then we switched to a lighter topic and discussed our personal year end lists for our favorite music releases of 2014.This was a long one, so I kept the music to a minimum. DISCLAIMER: Apologies for the echo again, and semi poor sound quality on t...2014-12-0600 min
The Wizard's Beard: A Punknews.org PodcastThe Wizards Beard - Episode 7Jesse and Goodrich start beef with fellow 'Org podcaster Bryne Yancey and discuss Scott Ian's anatomical latex appendage line. Music from Red Fang.2011-07-2900 min