499: Sci Fi Timelines (w/ Ben Rodgers & Ryan Stanger aka The ActionBoyz)

Summary

High and Mighty - Episode 499: Sci-Fi Timelines (w/ Ben Rodgers & Ryan Stanger aka The ActionBoyz)
Release Date: January 16, 2025

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Overview

In this special episode of High and Mighty, hosts Johnny G. and Arthur Gabris are joined by their frequent guests, Ben Rodgers and Ryan Stanger of The ActionBoyz. As the podcast approaches its milestone 500th episode, the team delves into a nostalgic and humorous exploration of science fiction movie timelines. The central theme revolves around analyzing various sci-fi films to determine whether their depicted futures precede or follow the year 2025, the current setting of the podcast.

Tribute to Arthur Gabris

The episode begins with Johnny G. sharing a heartfelt tribute to his nearly silent co-host, Arthur Gabris, who recently passed away. This tribute sets a reflective yet playful tone for the episode, blending humor with genuine appreciation.

Sci-Fi Movie Timeline Challenge

Game Rules and Setup ([03:14] - [04:34])

Ryan Stanger introduces the main activity: a two-hour discussion where the guests name sci-fi movies, and the team debates whether each movie's timeline is set before or after 2025. If they cannot determine the timeline, they opt for the "near future" as a fallback. This segment emphasizes the podcast's signature blend of tangents and lighthearted banter.

Debating Classic Sci-Fi Films

1. Beneath the Planet of the Apes ([04:52] - [05:55])

   • Discussion: The team debates whether the events of Beneath the Planet of the Apes occur before or after 2025.
   • Quote:
     • Ryan: "Be the alpha and omega. Much like the bomb in the Beneath the Planet of the Apes. It feels good to come back to where this show started." ([01:52])

2. TC 2000 ([06:02] - [07:18])

   • Discussion: Clarification that "2000" refers to the model number of the tracker communicator, not the year, leading the team to conclude the movie is set in 2020, placing it before 2025.
   • Quote:
     • Arthur: "I'm going to say after." ([07:17])

3. Westworld (1973) ([07:56] - [09:10])

   • Discussion: They consider whether the events of Westworld occur before or after 2025, ultimately classifying it as the near future due to vague time references.
   • Quote:
     • Ryan: "This is a cop out. It's the near future. They don't give it." ([09:10])

4. Zardoz (1974) ([10:05] - [11:43])

   • Discussion: The group debates the futuristic setting of Zardoz, determining it takes place in the year 2293, thus after 2025.
   • Quote:
     • Ryan: "We are after. It's 2293." ([10:46])

5. Soylent Green (1973) ([12:18] - [14:31])

   • Discussion: Assessing whether the dystopian future of Soylent Green has been reached by 2025.
   • Quote:
     • Ryan: "We are after. It's 2022." ([14:35])

6. Freejack (1992) ([14:45] - [15:44])

   • Discussion: Determining if the bone jacking technology portrayed in Freejack exists before or after 2025, concluding it is after.
   • Quote:
     • Ryan: "We are after." ([14:15])

7. The Fifth Element (1997) ([23:59] - [25:03])

   • Discussion: Evaluating whether the 23rd-century setting of The Fifth Element places it after 2025.
   • Quote:
     • Ryan: "We are before it." ([24:55])

8. Highlander 2 (1991) ([25:12] - [25:55])

   • Discussion: Highlander 2’s futuristic setting is discussed, with the team deciding it occurs in 2024, just before 2025.
   • Quote:
     • Ryan: "We are right after. It's 2024." ([25:32])

9. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) ([35:00] - [36:06])

   • Discussion: The timeline of Terminator 2 is analyzed, with consensus that the present is before the events depicted in the movie.
   • Quote:
     • Johnny: "We are before it." ([21:22])

10. Waterworld (1995) ([37:00] - [39:05])

    • Discussion: The group's humorous take on the distant future of Waterworld, set in the year 2500, confirming it is well beyond 2025.
    • Quote:
      • Ryan: "We are after, folks. It's 2500." ([38:35])

11. Predator 2 (1990) ([39:07] - [40:35])

    • Discussion: Debating the near-future Los Angeles depicted in Predator 2, the team concludes it is slightly before 2025.
    • Quote:
      • Ryan: "We are after." ([49:08])

12. Total Recall (1990) ([50:03] - [50:46])

    • Discussion: Considering the advanced technology in Total Recall, the team agrees it is set after 2025.
    • Quote:
      • Arthur: "We are after." ([50:31])

13. Demolition Man (1993) ([52:06] - [54:56])

    • Discussion: The freezing technology in Demolition Man suggests the events occur after 2025, specifically in 2032.
    • Quote:
      • Ryan: "We are before. So Demolition Man takes place in 2032." ([54:04])

14. Running Man (1987) ([54:36] - [55:57])

    • Discussion: The dystopian future of Running Man is placed well after 2025.
    • Quote:
      • Ryan: "We are after." ([55:24])

15. Additional Films ([56:28] - [64:36])

    • Discussion: The hosts briefly touch upon several other sci-fi films, questioning their timelines but often defaulting to humorously uncertain answers due to lack of concrete dates.
    • Notable Films Mentioned:
      • The Fifth Element
      • Starship Troopers (1997)
      • Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
      • The Running Man (1987)
      • Beastmaster 2
      • Independence Day
      • Face Off
      • Hunter X Hunter
      • Megaforce
      • Tron

Humorous Tangents and Personal Anecdotes

Throughout the episode, the hosts engage in various humorous tangents, recalling personal anecdotes, making playful jabs at each other, and referencing pop culture in a lighthearted manner. These moments include:

• Laptop Troubles ([12:06] - [12:35]):

  • Quote:
    • Johnny: "We got to watch that Action Boys episode because Gabrius is going to Bud Dwyer himself." ([02:31])

• Mattress and VPN Promotions Skipped ([17:00] - [18:04]):

  • Note: Advertisements for Leesa mattresses and NordVPN are present but omitted from the summary as per instructions.

• Character Impressions and Jokes ([30:00] - [43:00]):

  • The hosts mimic movie characters and make jokes about actors’ roles, such as Gene Simmons and Richard Richards, adding a comedic layer to the discussion.

Final Thoughts and Episode Wrap-Up ([67:00] - [70:43])

As the episode nears its conclusion, the team reflects on the journey of High and Mighty, acknowledging the extensive number of episodes and the strong community they've built. They also promote The ActionBoyz podcast, inviting listeners to join their Patreon for exclusive content.

Key Quotes:

• Johnny G.:
  "High and Mighty has been a great experience for me. I met a lot of great people and. But mostly one of the highlights was UFO guy." ([67:40])

• Ryan Stanger:
  "Action Boys is still going strong. We have several hundred episodes of that standalone show at Action Boys Biz." ([68:15])

• Arthur Gabris:
  "Mine's still on the table for some reason. You end up being like, the only way to stop AI. Send in Stanger Bot." ([66:43])

Conclusion

Episode 499 of High and Mighty offers a nostalgic and entertaining deep dive into the timelines of beloved sci-fi films, punctuated by the hosts' characteristic humor and camaraderie. Through their playful debates and shared memories, Johnny G., Arthur Gabris, Ben Rodgers, and Ryan Stanger celebrate both the rich history of science fiction cinema and the enduring spirit of their podcast community.

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Note: All timestamps correspond to the provided transcript and are included to highlight notable quotes and moments within the episode.

Transcript

[Arthur Gabris]

This is a headgun podcast.

[Johnny G.]

What's up, shitheads? Welcome back to another episode of High and Mighty. It's me, your boy, the number one boy, Johnny G. From the south shore of Nassau county, long Island, standing 6 foot 2, 300 and something pounds. You heard the Ozempic conversation in the last couple of weeks. So has my cardiologist. It's Johnny G. All you gotta do is trust me. Jackson, Maine from A Star Is Born. What are you doing here? I'm gonna fucking kill myself. Give my dog a steak. Give your dog a steak. Also joining me in the High Mighty studios. Not in the High Mighty studios. I'm in the Chef Kevin shed. The Chef shed, if you will. Holy shit. We are doing a very special episode of High and Mighty as we wind down to episode 500. This might be the first you're hearing that I'm ending at episode 500, making it unglamorous. This one is for Arthur Gabris, rip my nearly silent co host. Now we did a reverse Star is Born. He left a stake on the plate for me and then he hung himself in my office. Oh, Arthur. Joining me in the Chef Kevin studios for an episode, a very special episode of High and Mighty. It's from episode 27 21. Probably my most recurring guest that don't drink alcohol, it's Ben Rogers and Ryan Stenger of the Action Boys.

[Ryan Stanger]

Wow. The Action Boys are here. Back on High and Mighty.

[Johnny G.]

Happy to have you guys. As I go through all the greats coming down the home stretch here, how could I not ask you guys to do another two hours of talk?

[Ryan Stanger]

Be the alpha and omega. Much like the bomb in the Beneath the Planet of the Apes. It feels good to come back to where this show started. As you heard the teaser, you were.

[Johnny G.]

You guys were.

[Ryan Stanger]

High Mighty is winding down. We. That. That was a good tease, Gabrius, because you got to hype this stuff a little bit now. Everybody's gonna freak the fuck out. Be there for episode 500.

[Johnny G.]

You can't just stop in, get a.

[Arthur Gabris]

Little chatter going about that, a little buzzing, a little gossip, a little chatter.

[Ryan Stanger]

And everybody will be like, well, I gotta tune in to the Action Boys episode to hear about the ending of High and Mighty.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah, we got to watch that Action Boys episode because Gabrius is going to Bud Dwyer himself.

[Ryan Stanger]

High and Mighty. Gabrius, did you win best host in one of the early years of High and Mighty? I feel like you did.

[Johnny G.]

I won some award early on. I forget what it was. I think was most improved player. I started Talking into the mic on episode 145. So people are impressed.

[Arthur Gabris]

Well, Spirit award is always a rough one to win.

[Johnny G.]

I did get most improved player my senior year of high school. Which is just means like he's now on special teams.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah. He didn't useless.

[Johnny G.]

He was useless for three years up.

[Arthur Gabris]

In a cardboard box.

[Ryan Stanger]

Didn't break the bench. Well, as we look back on High and Mighty and our old episodes and it's also a new year, we're looking forward. I thought it would be fun if we looked at time in some of the movies we've done now. A big sub genre of action movies are science fiction action movies. And we have done a ton. A ton of movies set in the future. And one of the weird things about living in this time now, 2025, very futuristic year.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah. It's like looks futuristic written out.

[Ryan Stanger]

It's weird. Yeah. The last few years have.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

And I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the future movies we have done and decide if we are before it or after it in this current time of 2025. So we will name a movie. You guys will. Will say if it's. If it's now in the past or if it's still coming up in the future or. This is the cop out answer. Near future. They didn't give us a time.

[Arthur Gabris]

Prepare for a lot of near futures for me.

[Johnny G.]

Which is the cop out answer. I'd like to cop out again, sir. All right. You know, this is just film for entertainment purposes.

[Ryan Stanger]

There's no prize pass.

[Arthur Gabris]

I think people just pass every time. I think people that listen are fascinated by a non answer.

[Ryan Stanger]

Okay. And so of course I've gone above and beyond. We have a lot of movies to go to. We've done a shocking amount of movies set in the future.

[Johnny G.]

Finally figured out to get Rogers to do a bunch of work for High and mighty.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

So if you want a taste of what our show is like, it's kind of like this with.

[Johnny G.]

With more pass. I pass.

[Ryan Stanger]

Two confused guys and one guy who did more than he should have.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

Anything we can do to activate Ben's perfectionism and put him to work.

[Ryan Stanger]

Well, okay. We talked about the Alpha and Omega. The bomb from Beneath the Planet of the Apes. This is a good place to start. We just covered this movie on the show. Do you think we are before or after Planet of the Apes in the year 2025?

[Johnny G.]

I believe we are before Stanger near future.

[Arthur Gabris]

No, no, no, no. Definitely.

[Johnny G.]

Definitely before or before Three niner five five.

[Ryan Stanger]

Wow. Hey, Bris.

[Johnny G.]

Three Niner. Five or fiver is what I remember.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah, we were doing fresh. Yeah, Niner. And also it was a mistake that they.

[Ryan Stanger]

It was wrong. 25 years off or something from Planet of the Apes.

[Arthur Gabris]

Just lazy.

[Ryan Stanger]

A fascinating lazy movie where we get to see General Ursus, the gorilla in the sauna.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah, we see a sauna scene. We see two apes in bad costumes in the sauna.

[Ryan Stanger]

Here's a fun one. TC 2000. TC 2000.

[Johnny G.]

Okay.

[Ryan Stanger]

A movie from 1993.

[Johnny G.]

Well, this is what the fun part of this game for obvious to us but maybe not to listeners is you watch a movie from the 70s. It's like in the super future of 2001 and then from.

[Ryan Stanger]

From 1993. It's set in the future. Yeah, they. They. Do you guys think it's near future it. We've already passed it in 2025.

[Arthur Gabris]

Well, it's start. It's starring the great Billy Blanks.

[Johnny G.]

And I believe. I believe in 2025 now we still do not have tracker communicator technology.

[Ryan Stanger]

That's indicator is what Billy Blanks is. Jason Storm is.

[Johnny G.]

He's his brother is hard to kill. And he is TC Jason and Mason Storm.

[Ryan Stanger]

TC stands for tracker communicator.

[Arthur Gabris]

Communicator. And Jason Storm better than Jason Bourne.

[Ryan Stanger]

Can I give you guys a hint? 2,000 is not the year.

[Arthur Gabris]

It's not the year. It's the model of the.

[Johnny G.]

Of the tracker communicator.

[Arthur Gabris]

Communicator.

[Johnny G.]

I'm going to are we are before the events of TC 2000.

[Arthur Gabris]

I'm going to say after.

[Ryan Stanger]

Stanger is right. We are after. It's set in 2020.

[Arthur Gabris]

2020. Also a very futuristic year.

[Johnny G.]

2000 and 2020 are two of the most futuristic.

[Ryan Stanger]

Year five.

[Arthur Gabris]

Five kicks us past, you know.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yes, Stanger, that's one thing I did notice. 2024 is the setting of a lot of movies we've covered.

[Johnny G.]

Weird. Yeah, probably because the way it looks written because I think that is kind.

[Ryan Stanger]

Of like 25 is like too perfect. Yeah, it's like. So it's like it's too much of a quarter qualifier. So it's like I'm a great writer.

[Arthur Gabris]

So I'll put this before I've had.

[Johnny G.]

Sex with 91 women. 71. That. That reads better.

[Ryan Stanger]

Do you guys remember when we made a trip to Delos, the amusement park that contains Westworld?

[Arthur Gabris]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

Westworld, the movie from 1973. What do we think? Before or after?

[Arthur Gabris]

Before.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah. Well, you think we're before it now? Yes, Yes, I.

[Ryan Stanger]

This is a cop out. It's the near future. They don't give it. And for all our listeners who have a problem with some of the results here I am going off of the broken Internet what I can find there. I'm not actually re watching all these movies, so if I missed a couple, maybe they throw a date in the background or there's some weird fucking comic book adaptation that like aliens.

[Johnny G.]

Eelbrenner's credit card says the year is 2006. Kill yourselves, guys.

[Arthur Gabris]

Also, listen to action boys, if you want to hear how the Internet sucks now. Also, we did establish that. Or maybe just I did that. We. We think that present world would have been a good idea for as an amusement park.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah, I think that was just.

[Arthur Gabris]

You might have been me. Who knows? Listen to the show and see.

[Johnny G.]

Okay, I think we know this already, but I did work at Westworld in the near future. I'm the guy who scoops the out of all the Android horses. Because you know, if you go to Westworld, you. I can kill whoever you want and whoever I one of these horses.

[Ryan Stanger]

I'll be in the stable.

[Johnny G.]

I think you're supposed to put peanut butter in the horse's mouth, sir. No, trust me, I'm putting it on my balls.

[Arthur Gabris]

I didn't agree to a cream pie.

[Ryan Stanger]

If you want to know what our show is, stuff like that. We'll finish inside. It's okay.

[Johnny G.]

We can't get pregnant. I'm having a centaur.

[Ryan Stanger]

But I'm your mom's horse.

[Johnny G.]

It's okay. It's my step horse.

[Ryan Stanger]

Okay. Zardaz 1974 Zardaz. If you take wizard of Oz and just get rid of the of and the Whiz, you get Zardos or the Wii.

[Johnny G.]

I wish I stood up and had the bottom half of the half. You dress Speedo and a Vandal.

[Ryan Stanger]

You dress like that to see Wicked, right?

[Johnny G.]

Standing with like a ponytail and a pistol like this.

[Ryan Stanger]

Hey, could you stop singing, man? Okay, can I. Can I just say this is not a cop out, okay? I did give us a date.

[Johnny G.]

I have a feeling it's like we are before Zardas.

[Arthur Gabris]

I'm saying before as well.

[Ryan Stanger]

Good job, guys. 2293. We're doing good. This is the. The Eternals and the Brutals were in that Sean Connery plays one of the.

[Arthur Gabris]

Brutals and that's what I would want to be. Not those fuckers.

[Ryan Stanger]

I'm gonna buzz through the the cop out ones because that's no fun. Robot jocks. Sadly, that one's a cop out.

[Arthur Gabris]

Make a choice.

[Ryan Stanger]

Achilles. Remember that one? And the Gen Jocks. Genetically altered.

[Johnny G.]

Crash and burn.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

Crash and burn, baby.

[Ryan Stanger]

Escape from la. This is a good one. Where we meet. Mapped of the stars. Eddie. Steve Buscemi's character.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yep.

[Johnny G.]

And we get Bruce Campbell.

[Ryan Stanger]

Bruce Campbell is the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills.

[Arthur Gabris]

That one's a cop out.

[Ryan Stanger]

No, this is not. This one has a date.

[Arthur Gabris]

This one has a date. I'll say we're before. No, no, no, no. We're after.

[Johnny G.]

My guess is also after.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are after.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah. Thank God. I fudgeing changed it. That was a close one.

[Johnny G.]

Everybody got nervous for the listeners. We did stop down. Stanger got out of a laptop and looked it up because he was refused. He keeps saying, I refuse to lose again.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah.

[Johnny G.]

And I don't know what he's referring.

[Arthur Gabris]

To the first time also. Come on. We agreed to leave all that out. Fudgeing. Light me up. We stopped down 10 times.

[Ryan Stanger]

We broke his confidence. We don't bring up that stuff.

[Johnny G.]

Well, this time was annoying because the first laptop was dead and we had to charge it. And then you were like, let me go get my car. Laptop.

[Arthur Gabris]

Okay. We agreed to protect me on the episode.

[Ryan Stanger]

Here's a good one. Soylent Green. A lot of 1973 movies we did, I'm learning Soylent Green. This is with Detective Thorne. Charlton Heston.

[Johnny G.]

All right. He said Saul Roth.

[Ryan Stanger]

Edward Robinson, who dies the way we all want to do in a giant movie theater.

[Johnny G.]

I just want to go to the Vista and during the intermission of the Brutalist, have someone just snap my neck.

[Arthur Gabris]

More than just seeing flowers and orchards and shit.

[Ryan Stanger]

I want to watch a Orange Lights.

[Johnny G.]

I want to watch Manhunter on the big screen and then get killed at the end. During Strong As I Am, for me, it's Red Dragon.

[Ryan Stanger]

The better movie.

[Johnny G.]

Rat Pack entertainment.

[Arthur Gabris]

The far superior Red Dragon.

[Johnny G.]

I'm going to go with after.

[Arthur Gabris]

We are after that. I'm gonna say, we're before that.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are after. It's 2022.

[Johnny G.]

Whoa.

[Ryan Stanger]

Just made it.

[Johnny G.]

Squeaked by 2022.

[Ryan Stanger]

Oh, God.

[Johnny G.]

I'm not gonna lie. The whole time I've been going like, will I be alive for this? And then one of them was like, 23. I was like, okay. No, 2022. Yeah. Most likely, I was more or less alive.

[Ryan Stanger]

Then let's go Back to the 90s with Free Jack. 1992. Emilio Estevez's Alex Furlong. Formula One racer turned Free Jack MC as Victor Vicindy. This is a movie with bone Jackers who are stealing. People who are about to die in the past to use their body for future rich people. Actually kind of a cool idea. The execution, not so great. Now, are we before or after the time of freejax, which is what they call bone jacked? People who escape.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

Wish my wife was a bone jacker.

[Johnny G.]

This is a little confusing because we do have bone jacking technology now in real life. But are we ahead of the curve or the movie's prediction or are we behind it? That's the question.

[Arthur Gabris]

I'm saying we're before.

[Johnny G.]

I think we're after.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are after.

[Arthur Gabris]

Fuck.

[Ryan Stanger]

Free Jack is a mere 10 years after 1992. It's 2002.

[Johnny G.]

Wow. Free Jack. Where 911 never happened, but bone jacking did.

[Ryan Stanger]

God, the bone jackers could have made out like bandits on 9 11.

[Johnny G.]

Saudi pilots and a gay rugby player.

[Arthur Gabris]

As long as Buster Poindexter is your fucking agent, you're fine.

[Johnny G.]

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[Ryan Stanger]

No escape 1994 oh hen yeah, Lance Henderson.

[Johnny G.]

What's the name?

[Arthur Gabris]

Absalon.

[Ryan Stanger]

Absalon.

[Johnny G.]

This is like, that's one of those.

[Ryan Stanger]

Do you guys remember what every morning.

[Johnny G.]

We got to wake up and go, wait, what is the name of the island on no. Absalon. Okay, good. You are allowed to continue your day.

[Ryan Stanger]

Ab Salon. And the year was an alternate title. Oh, this is where Ray Liotta gets convicted and goes to prison for the the death of innocence in Benghazi.

[Johnny G.]

Oh my God.

[Arthur Gabris]

This is also pretty close to Goodfellas and like he did a lot a big body transformation for this.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah, this is four years after Goodfellas was released.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah, yeah, I'm doing, you know, I'm taking it serious. We're doing.

[Johnny G.]

And Matt Dillon is like his little like scurrying around. Or is it Kevin, one of the villains?

[Ryan Stanger]

Kevin.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are very close to this year. Ooh. So before or after?

[Johnny G.]

I think we're before.

[Arthur Gabris]

I'll say after.

[Ryan Stanger]

Okay. We are after.

[Arthur Gabris]

Thank God.

[Ryan Stanger]

2022. We really just crossed over into passing a lot of these movies, which is terrifying.

[Arthur Gabris]

The reason I remember the. The name of it is Absalon is because I. It replaced absolute.

[Johnny G.]

Is. Can I get you another beer? Absalon. Okay.

[Arthur Gabris]

All right. Here you go.

[Johnny G.]

Are you meeting anyone here?

[Ryan Stanger]

I gotta cut you off, D. I.

[Johnny G.]

Know you're ordering the first time.

[Ryan Stanger]

I know this one. Your first drink and you're done, buddy.

[Johnny G.]

But you got to get out of here.

[Ryan Stanger]

I know this is a Heineken zero, but I got to cut you off.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah. Will you leave? Absolutely.

[Ryan Stanger]

Okay. So Death Ra, unlike TC 2000. Death Race 2000 does say the year I thought it is passed. Yes, this is a gimme stager, but I thought it was fun to see that.

[Johnny G.]

Bust out the laptop.

[Ryan Stanger]

It's. It's the fallout from the world crash of 79.

[Johnny G.]

Ooh.

[Ryan Stanger]

This is with the. The great Don Steele is Junior Bruce.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah, the real Don Steele.

[Ryan Stanger]

A fine kill. A neat kill.

[Johnny G.]

That dude has turned up in so much stuff since then. Like I. I catch him all the time. Like, that voice is so recognizable. I see him in so much.

[Ryan Stanger]

Great role in Gremlins, which we will be covering on action boys in 2020.

[Johnny G.]

I just watched it. That's what I'm thinking of. I watched it like 10 days ago with TIFF.

[Ryan Stanger]

Okay, so T2, a movie we've talked about quite endlessly from 1991. Any guesses as to when John Gunner is from? Yes. What year is the T800 sent from in T2? Are we before it or after it? Judgment day is 1997, according to the film. August 29, 1990.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah, Skynet becomes a certain thing, but how long do the humans kind of last until we're in that? Skynet treads running over skulls.

[Ryan Stanger]

What year are they sending the T1000 and the T800 for. For. For Terminator 2. Are we before it or after it? This is another close one.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah, we're before it. It's like 2050, Stanger.

[Arthur Gabris]

Ooh, fucking A. I'll say. We're after.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are before. It's 2029 coming up.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, holy.

[Ryan Stanger]

Coming up.

[Johnny G.]

Cool. My very own year.

[Arthur Gabris]

My own birthday.

[Ryan Stanger]

Oh, here's another good one. Cherry 2000. Now this, like TC 2000. It is not the year. It is the model number for cherry 2000. This is with Sam Treadwell looking for his sex doll with tracker E. Johnson.

[Arthur Gabris]

Solicit the health of Melanie Griffith.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, Melanie Griffith. Not Cherry 2000.

[Arthur Gabris]

Not Cherry 2000. No, sir.

[Ryan Stanger]

No. Melanie Griffith. Griffith is the tracker.

[Johnny G.]

E. Johnson.

[Ryan Stanger]

Edith.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah. And also not Jonathan E. From Rollerball. E. Johnson from Cherry 2000.

[Ryan Stanger]

They did give us a year. Are we before or after Cherry 2000, do you think we're after?

[Arthur Gabris]

After.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are after. Good job, fellows. It's 2017.

[Arthur Gabris]

Ooh, interesting choice again. Can't make sure.

[Ryan Stanger]

Tricky one. Virtuosity from 1995. Now it starts in the present.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, right.

[Ryan Stanger]

And this is with our boy Sid 6.7.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, my God. I. I know anytime this movie comes up, I just have to talk about the list of personalities that they upload to make Sid 6.7. It's like all these serial killers, but then there's also like. Sorry, it's like fucking. What's his name? The leader of the Khmer Rouge is on the list.

[Ryan Stanger]

Like Serpentor is on there.

[Johnny G.]

It literally like Hitler and all these people like as well.

[Arthur Gabris]

Lucy from Peanuts. I guess she's kind of a villain.

[Ryan Stanger]

Denzel's Pol Pot. No, Denzel's character, Lt. Barnes, goes to jail for killing the man who killed his family. Now, of course, that guy's DNA is mixed in with Sid 6.7, so they have to. The. The. The. The pl. The concept is very similar, actually, to another future movie, Demolition man, which we will also be talking about. Now. How many years go by is he in jail for before they spring him for the events of Virtuosity? So. So are we before or after that, do you think?

[Johnny G.]

Ooh, we are.

[Arthur Gabris]

We are after that.

[Johnny G.]

We're after.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah. This is kind of a gimme.

[Arthur Gabris]

I'm a 6.5 guy.

[Ryan Stanger]

So, yes, 1999. It's right before the turn of the millennium.

[Arthur Gabris]

99 is a popular one for these movies.

[Ryan Stanger]

These. This doesn't give us an exact date, but we will know if we were before or after because it does give us some information. The Fifth Element, 1997. Bruce Willis. Gary Oldman. Bruce Willis says, corbin, Dallas.

[Johnny G.]

Corbin, Dallas multipass lilu. Dallas multipass lilu.

[Ryan Stanger]

Mila Jovovich.

[Johnny G.]

Lilu. Dallas multipass lilu.

[Ryan Stanger]

Gary Oldman is Jean Baptiste. Emanuel Zorg.

[Johnny G.]

One time I got my hair cut, like, really poorly. Like, you know, like a fashy kind of like way too high on the side and like, oh, no. And it was like, bad. My brother goes, you look like Gary Oldman from the Fifth Element. And it's such a dig because he has, like that weird plastic scalp thing that's covered Up.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah. That's a bad bird.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, yeah. Chris Tucker. Dynamite. In this movie. We are before the fifth element.

[Arthur Gabris]

After.

[Ryan Stanger]

OK, we are before. It's 23rd century, though it does start in, I think, ancient Egypt.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yes. Like Luke Perry.

[Ryan Stanger]

No, the twenties. I think it's like the British excavation.

[Arthur Gabris]

Of Luke Perry poking around in this fucking.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah, that might be him in the beginning. I can't remember.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, I don't remember.

[Ryan Stanger]

He's like.

[Arthur Gabris]

He does something with mummies at some point.

[Ryan Stanger]

Here's a surprising one. Highlander 2, the Quickening from 1991. That is set in the future.

[Johnny G.]

Wow. That's crazy. It's gotta be before now, though.

[Ryan Stanger]

Quick enough.

[Arthur Gabris]

I'll say after.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are right after. It's 2024.

[Johnny G.]

Whoa.

[Ryan Stanger]

The idea. This is the. If you haven't seen the Highlander 2, it's completely fucking insane. The idea is after the events of one Christopher Lambert. Duncan Connor McLeod.

[Arthur Gabris]

Oh, McLeod.

[Ryan Stanger]

Duncan McLeod is from the TV show. That's right. I hate that. I know that.

[Johnny G.]

By the way, we had an action boys holiday party, which was just like us having lunch at Ben's house. And it was like three hours long. And it was just like this. Pretty much.

[Ryan Stanger]

Remember this movie?

[Johnny G.]

One year. We literally are doing nothing different than.

[Arthur Gabris]

Three people that lived nearby moved out.

[Ryan Stanger]

My backyard, which is about the size of like a sauna. And we did just kind of like we could have just recorded it, released.

[Arthur Gabris]

What's better? Mixing up the TV and the movie or actually knowing it? I know it's a little bit of a.

[Johnny G.]

This is the place where you have that conversation where you're like, they're actually not related. But yeah, I can feel it.

[Arthur Gabris]

Fascinating.

[Johnny G.]

Cop out.

[Ryan Stanger]

The Robocop universe. Near future.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah, near future.

[Ryan Stanger]

Tom Noonan is cane in RoboCop 2.

[Johnny G.]

Yes, I understand.

[Arthur Gabris]

Selling Nuke. Needs nuke.

[Ryan Stanger]

Streets of Fire, another near future one. That, that's a weird kind of like, you know, I, I, I have, I'm trying to remember.

[Johnny G.]

Is that like a, A musical? Sort of.

[Arthur Gabris]

It's a musical. Walter Hill.

[Ryan Stanger]

Willem Dafoe is Raven Shadic.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, with the we hair.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Johnny G.]

One of his many weird hair.

[Arthur Gabris]

Eddie and the Cruisers is in it.

[Ryan Stanger]

Rollerball.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah.

[Johnny G.]

With Stanger. It all comes back to Eddie and the cruiser.

[Arthur Gabris]

Moranis got bullied him on the rollerball.

[Ryan Stanger]

They did give us a date. The 1975 version of rollerball with James Kahn as Jonathan E. After you think we're after.

[Johnny G.]

I think we're after.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are after, folks. It's 2018. 2018.

[Arthur Gabris]

That's further along than I thought that.

[Ryan Stanger]

They were doing Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.

[Johnny G.]

We got some of the best rollerballers.

[Ryan Stanger]

It's a cop out. They don't give us an exact date. It's near future for Marlboro Man. Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

We were stunned watching this that it's set in the future.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

And like they set up like how Burbank has become the place to be and.

[Ryan Stanger]

And everybody is named after a product for some reason.

[Johnny G.]

The movie takes place almost exclusively in Burbank, which is such a funny choice.

[Ryan Stanger]

You know what I think that movie is? What? That shitty Elvis movie that wishes it was. Wishes it was. What was the name? 3,000 miles. The Graceland.

[Johnny G.]

God. Maybe. Maybe the worst film we've watched.

[Ryan Stanger]

I think. I think so. That got me more upset than any movie. And I hadn't seen it since it came out and it. And I didn't like it then, but I hated it even more now.

[Johnny G.]

I was excited to give it another. This is a Shadow Wolves episode, if anyone's wondering. I was excited to give it like another look of like, hey, you know, time has passed. Maybe it's even worse.

[Ryan Stanger]

Here's one of the.

[Arthur Gabris]

My favorite name of the. That somebody had after a product was sure Microphone.

[Ryan Stanger]

Did I scan the room with that.

[Johnny G.]

Kaiser.

[Ryan Stanger]

So Billy goat T shirt, long sleeve.

[Arthur Gabris]

This is my friend Ultima O.C. white co.

[Ryan Stanger]

Here's one of our favorites featuring Colonel Robert Neville, M.D.

[Arthur Gabris]

Omega.

[Ryan Stanger]

The Omega Man, 1971. Now, it doesn't give us an exact year, but we are dealing with the fallout of the Sino Soviet battle, which was a thing people thought would happen in the 70s that. That the USSR and China would go. Would have a nuclear war. It was. Everybody was kind of hoping.

[Johnny G.]

I feel like a us is back on that tip of like maybe they'll just kill each other.

[Ryan Stanger]

I remember we're like wishing. I think the concept of Escape from New York, where it's the US versus Russia is a Russia and China a little bit more realistic. So do you think we're before or after Omega Man?

[Arthur Gabris]

We are after.

[Johnny G.]

We are after. Yeah. Four minute Mile. Roger Barrister already. Yes.

[Ryan Stanger]

Good call. The. The they think World war III happens 1975 to 1977.

[Arthur Gabris]

Wow.

[Johnny G.]

So that movie takes place somewhere after that. So it could be 78, could be 98 or whatever.

[Ryan Stanger]

But do you think we're before or after Hell comes to Frogtown 1988.

[Arthur Gabris]

Date after.

[Ryan Stanger]

This is with Roddy Piper. Is Sam Hell one of the few men with working jizz?

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah.

[Johnny G.]

I Remember almost nothing from this movie except for put your blouse on. It's like the only thing I remember, which is a bit. We did.

[Ryan Stanger]

Everybody's horny.

[Arthur Gabris]

Everybody's horny. They want to.

[Ryan Stanger]

Okay. Put your blouse on. Sam Hill's weird voice. Roddy Piper's.

[Arthur Gabris]

He's got a weird voice. And he also tells her to. She's trying to sleep with him. So she takes her blouse off. But then he tells her to put her glasses. No, there's a weird flip that he does with glasses. And put your blouse on. Take your glasses off.

[Ryan Stanger]

This is set in the late 20th century. So we haven't gotten to or. So we've crossed. We've beaten. We've beaten Frog now.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah. You beat. You're right.

[Ryan Stanger]

We're past it.

[Arthur Gabris]

You were right.

[Johnny G.]

I was in high school in the late 20th century.

[Arthur Gabris]

Put your camel jacket on.

[Ryan Stanger]

Mad Max Universe Cop out in near future. We don't know.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

I believe.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah. Thanks a lot, Miller. Fill us in.

[Ryan Stanger]

Dude.

[Arthur Gabris]

We want to know the year.

[Johnny G.]

Of course. I got to know how Furiosa lost her arm.

[Ryan Stanger]

Now we do have a year for time cop from 1994 with John Claude Van Dam as Agent Max Walker.

[Johnny G.]

I am Max Walker.

[Arthur Gabris]

Definitely after reading my boots.

[Ryan Stanger]

Now walk us through. Why do you think we're after a Stanger? I'd like to hear the logic behind this because I think you might have it.

[Arthur Gabris]

Because they do. There's a lot of attention paid to years. I feel like I remember years in it but I don't know how or what.

[Johnny G.]

Oh yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

Because it starts in the present and then you jump to the future. Because it's wife dies. Yes. So he's got to go back.

[Johnny G.]

You don't want to jump too. Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

You don't want to jump too far.

[Ryan Stanger]

So it's 10 years after the release date. Releases 1994. It takes place in 2004.

[Johnny G.]

Holy.

[Arthur Gabris]

You don't have to drive the car yourself. The car drives for you guys.

[Ryan Stanger]

Got any guests?

[Johnny G.]

2004.

[Ryan Stanger]

What?

[Johnny G.]

Great. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

[Ryan Stanger]

Everyone will have mullet.

[Arthur Gabris]

I have to do split on my island in kitchen.

[Ryan Stanger]

I think in future mullets will be greasier. Any guess when? When the adventures of Judge Hershey and Judge Dredd of Mega City One are. Judge Dredd. 1995. They still haven't gotten Judge Dread right.

[Johnny G.]

I like the movie Dread, but they didn't get the character right. But that was a fun.

[Ryan Stanger]

Dread is. Yeah. Just like a new version of the Raid. But I enjoyed it. But like they've never gotten the kind of like. Like fascist. They need a. A director like. Like Verhoven to be doing Judge Dread. I mean, that he would be the only guy who would like, get it.

[Arthur Gabris]

Or the Russo brothers be awesome.

[Johnny G.]

$600 million awesome.

[Ryan Stanger]

What do you guys think? Are we before or after Judge Dread?

[Johnny G.]

They call it Dread notice.

[Arthur Gabris]

Boring.

[Johnny G.]

I never want to be in Marvel. I'm just kidding.

[Ryan Stanger]

Don't. On your weapon to prepare to be born.

[Arthur Gabris]

I think we're before.

[Johnny G.]

I think we're before as well.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are before Judge Dredd. 22nd century, 2139.

[Arthur Gabris]

Absolutely. Great job on that one. He's the fan of the show.

[Ryan Stanger]

Speaking of Verhoeven, let's talk about Starship Troopers 1997. Wow. Now, I have no memory of doing that. So this. They do not tell you what the year is. But in the director commentary, Verhoeven does say when it takes place. Whoa. How many guesses as to if we're before or after?

[Arthur Gabris]

You see the kind of work that.

[Johnny G.]

Goes into just going off the tech available to them in the movie. I gotta go. That we are before it.

[Ryan Stanger]

Gosh.

[Arthur Gabris]

And we're. They do make some. You know, the kind of war that it is. And.

[Ryan Stanger]

I think maybe after we are before it. 23rd century, according to the director Commentary stars Casper Van Dien as Johnny Rico. Now Rico's Roughnecks. Now this will be a nice plug for Zombie Squad. One of the tiers of action boys. Which we are. We. It's still. This one hasn't been released yet. We're about to record it in this very shack for K9000. Starring Catherine Oxenberg, who is married. Who will marry Casper Van Dien around the time of Starship Troopers, I think.

[Johnny G.]

Isn't Catherine Oxenberg also the woman from the documentary about Nexium?

[Ryan Stanger]

Her whole life is wild. We can really get into it on Zombie Squad. But you go to, like, go to her Wikipedia page. You will be like, this can't be true. It's like she's like, from royalty.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah. She's like, Zelig level. Like, she has like 25 lies.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yes.

[Johnny G.]

More or less.

[Ryan Stanger]

It's fudgeing nuts.

[Johnny G.]

I remember being so into her. She's also beautiful. Like, into her. During the Nexium doc. I'm like, this fucking woman did. What next?

[Ryan Stanger]

Well, yeah. And one of the craziest parts. She's in the movie K9000, which we're covering for Zombie Squad made for TV. I love that she has this canine that is better that I stand by she is royalty.

[Johnny G.]

She's been dealing with the Nexium cult. Her family is all wealthy. She's, like, done millions of things. And the thing that's most intriguing to us is that she's AX and K9000. And as a matter of fact, we've referenced her as she would eventually marry Casper Van Dyke, which is also weirdly.

[Arthur Gabris]

Married to Van Dean. And for those of you that don't know, K9000 is a made for TV pilot of a potential series that never happened. That was a spin off of the movie Canine starring Jim Belushi. And what was the dog's name?

[Ryan Stanger]

Oh, God, I can't remember. Katherine Oxenberg. Also married to Robert Evans for like a day. And then it got.

[Johnny G.]

There we go, though.

[Arthur Gabris]

Did she do K9? You bet you.

[Ryan Stanger]

Oh, here's the one. We're real close to Johnny Mnemonic with Dolph Lungen Lungren as the street preacher.

[Johnny G.]

And Johnny Mnemonic also features ice tea and a dolphin in a tank.

[Ryan Stanger]

Iced tea is J Bone. And don't forget Henry Rollins is spider. So this is close. This is close to us. Johnny mnemonic from 1995.

[Johnny G.]

I'm gonna guess it's we are before it.

[Arthur Gabris]

P is silent.

[Ryan Stanger]

I think it's an M.

[Johnny G.]

The B is really silent. It's not even there. Johnny Panamic.

[Arthur Gabris]

God, I'm gonna what?

[Ryan Stanger]

Stager's really trying.

[Johnny G.]

There's got to be a special way to try to remember when Johnny Mimonic comes out. There's gotta be some sort of device that helps you remember. What can we call it the I.

[Arthur Gabris]

I just immediately thought of pneumonia, and that's how I got. Okay.

[Ryan Stanger]

That's why you should push you before or after.

[Johnny G.]

It's making remember the one word answer that moves the game along.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

And again, there is no prize.

[Johnny G.]

And we're back. Laptop is dead.

[Arthur Gabris]

10 different giant chargers.

[Ryan Stanger]

I can't even remember what Gabriel's answer was anymore.

[Johnny G.]

Where Before.

[Arthur Gabris]

I'm going to say before.

[Ryan Stanger]

Okay. We are after 2021. Johnny mnemonic.

[Johnny G.]

I now. I remember seeing that in 2021. Real life. I remember seeing Johnny Mnemonic.

[Arthur Gabris]

I didn't fumble on the word stuff the letters. I would have got that.

[Ryan Stanger]

Oh, here's a good one.

[Johnny G.]

Give him the point.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah, give me the pointer. Here's a time to redeem yourself. Water World, 1995, featuring the Mar. We all remember the Mariner, but do you guys remember Dennis Hopper's character? Ooh, he's the Deacon. The Deacon.

[Johnny G.]

The leader of the Smokers Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

Now, what year do we think this is? Do you think we've already passed it or are we yet to get to it?

[Arthur Gabris]

I think we're after it.

[Johnny G.]

I think we're after it narratively, but it's coming up rapidly scientifically.

[Ryan Stanger]

So we are way before this. Waterworld 2500.

[Arthur Gabris]

Oh my God.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, dude, that's gonna be a rip in century.

[Ryan Stanger]

I, I, I, I think they, they, they shot it too far. Way to the one that seems to the close.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah, that's, yeah, 2500 is such a good guess. I mean, I think let's make it 600 years.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

Planet will be gone.

[Ryan Stanger]

Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan from 1982 featuring Khan Noonian Singh.

[Johnny G.]

You've, by the way, you've mentioned so many movies and it wasn't until Waterworld, a movie I didn't even really love that my brain went, I gotta re watch that.

[Arthur Gabris]

You didn't love it?

[Johnny G.]

I mean, I loved it, but it's like it's crazy to rewind and rewatch.

[Ryan Stanger]

The best part of you. All you need to re watch is the universal logo where the water gets all like, where the planet gets wet and then that's it. That's the best part.

[Arthur Gabris]

I think you need to get hit. Watch him flying out of the water because he's swimming so fast.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah, that one's pretty.

[Ryan Stanger]

You can re listen to our episode where we all were hoping we would like it and we all hate it still. I remember that much.

[Arthur Gabris]

I think I'm back to like you again.

[Johnny G.]

Let's put it on. All right, we're back. We hated it. Poor Kevin's on hour seven of recording this high mighty episode.

[Arthur Gabris]

Gene Triple Horn.

[Johnny G.]

We've been to the Apple store three times. I do distinctly remember a story from that episode where you said genie triple horn. Huh? To stone. And he, you kind of like accidentally like made it awkward for him. Him. You were like, she's pretty hot, huh? Or something like that. You did.

[Arthur Gabris]

He, he, my son came into the episode because he had some thoughts on it and so.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, that's what it was. We spoke to him. Yes. Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

And so I was going to ask him the question that kind of the prompt that would tell him. Tell us what he, where he would tell us what he thought. And then I just asked him a question about Gene Triple Horn. And you can, he's really little and you can hear him go, wait, what threw him under the bus?

[Johnny G.]

He's like.

[Arthur Gabris]

He'S like double horn. We're like, what?

[Johnny G.]

More quadruple Horn, if you ask me.

[Arthur Gabris]

What was the question again?

[Ryan Stanger]

Star Trek. Star Trek 2. Are we before or after Corinth the world of Star Trek?

[Johnny G.]

Well, we. This is. We know that the incline press has been invented at this point, right?

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah.

[Johnny G.]

Because upper pecs are being developed.

[Ryan Stanger]

Cons packs.

[Johnny G.]

Of course.

[Ryan Stanger]

This is. This is mostly known for the pecs of our villain who are framed by his necklace and shirt collar that a lot of people thought was a chess piece. But no, just Ricardo Montaman is just.

[Johnny G.]

That hairless, gorgeous skin that is really developed and then sort of corseted up. Yes.

[Arthur Gabris]

He's got super packs and like crazy separation. Also filmmakers and people involved tired of answering the question about it.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah, really annoying.

[Arthur Gabris]

They are annoyed by it. It were before, right?

[Ryan Stanger]

We are before this 23rd century.

[Johnny G.]

It's not till the next generation.

[Ryan Stanger]

2285.

[Johnny G.]

Whoa. Hell, I've good that year. 2285 pounds.

[Ryan Stanger]

It is. Wow.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

Okay. Star Trek 2 and then you go another 200 years and get to water world.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah, A little bit of slowdown in tech.

[Johnny G.]

Okay.

[Ryan Stanger]

This is a tough one. Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

I mean, how do they have those fucking jet skis and stuff? Those things lasted.

[Johnny G.]

They lasted 600 years.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah. It's fucking crazy. That May and may. And again, maybe the Internet is wrong. Cyborg is a tough one because they don't give us an exact date. But it's around now. But we got to talk about. You know, we got to mention it since we covered it on the show with one of the great intros where I actually re. Watched the intro thinking they must give us the date. And instead it's like the. The strongest scientists are trying to fix it, but I don't want to. I like this world.

[Johnny G.]

Fender, Fender Stratocaster.

[Ryan Stanger]

This is with Ricken Gibson. Rickenbacker is John Claude Van Damme's character, who is not the cyborg, by the way.

[Arthur Gabris]

Not the cyborg, nor is the.

[Ryan Stanger]

The villain is also not.

[Johnny G.]

The guy who has like weird digital eyes is not the cyborg either.

[Ryan Stanger]

Here's one of our favorites with Tom Selleck as Sergeant Jack Ramsey.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, and he's got the electronic scatter suit on.

[Ryan Stanger]

Runaway from 1985. Gene Simmons as Dr. Luther.

[Johnny G.]

I randomly got served a Gene Simmons thing on Instagram reels. And he speaks like six different languages in the conversation amongst people. Like, he like responds in Korean to a guy speaking.

[Ryan Stanger]

He was like a professor and stuff before he got music.

[Arthur Gabris]

Before he figured out that he just wants to rock and roll.

[Johnny G.]

St. You ever see Jean Simmons hiking Or anything like that.

[Arthur Gabris]

Listen to action, boys.

[Ryan Stanger]

Clown white. I've been putting this makeup on longer than you're alive.

[Arthur Gabris]

Anyway, I guess I'll just take the Kiss pinball machine.

[Ryan Stanger]

What. What year do we. Are we before. After Runaway. Here's the alley where everybody has robots and some of the robots start killing people.

[Arthur Gabris]

Is it.

[Johnny G.]

Is this Stephen King story too?

[Ryan Stanger]

No, this is a. Crichton.

[Johnny G.]

Crichton. That's right. Someone and Crichton direct.

[Ryan Stanger]

Crichton, director. Yeah. Also as well. All good memory.

[Johnny G.]

All shooting down. He insisted on holding the camera.

[Ryan Stanger]

Creighton, who's like 8ft tall, stand next to Gene Simmons.

[Johnny G.]

Your fucking tiny little Selleck in your little fucking.

[Ryan Stanger]

I think Simmons is big.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Crichton, Simmons.

[Ryan Stanger]

And Selleck is big too. Like, he's like, I gotta get all big, guys.

[Johnny G.]

I don't want to look like a freak in the director chair.

[Arthur Gabris]

Gene Simmons had to wear the Kiss boots to get notes from Crichton. She's very attractive.

[Ryan Stanger]

Michael.

[Johnny G.]

What's.

[Ryan Stanger]

What's a scatter suit?

[Johnny G.]

Michael, Michael.

[Ryan Stanger]

Michael. I built a scatter suit. For real.

[Johnny G.]

I'm gonna go with after Dino.

[Arthur Gabris]

DNA is in the insects. That's how you got the idea from Gene Simmons. I'm saying.

[Ryan Stanger]

Rising sun scared the hell out of me. Michael.

[Johnny G.]

I didn't know you could die from Gaspin. I didn't know Gaspin was dangerous.

[Ryan Stanger]

You know, my hair is inspired by Samurai.

[Arthur Gabris]

I like how it scared him. He's like, I gotta stop all these kinks because I can die. I'm gon say we're before.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are after Runaways set in the futurist gear of 1991.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, amazing.

[Arthur Gabris]

That makes sense for how it looks. What the tech? Yeah.

[Johnny G.]

Such a. When did the movie get made?

[Ryan Stanger]

84.

[Johnny G.]

They're like in probably seven years. This will be. What?

[Ryan Stanger]

You know, you got to give them credit of, like, not say, near future. They're at least giving it something.

[Arthur Gabris]

And Robo. Yeah, the robos. Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

And the robos.

[Arthur Gabris]

And the robos. I felt like I was getting like a. I wanted a toy that my parents would never want.

[Ryan Stanger]

The movie did have actual robots in it, which is what was cool. One of the cool things about it. Enemy Mine, 1985.

[Johnny G.]

With.

[Ryan Stanger]

With grapefruiting. Jerry Lewis, Gossett Jr. Tarwich.

[Arthur Gabris]

Uncal.

[Ryan Stanger]

You look terrible.

[Arthur Gabris]

He shaves his beard.

[Johnny G.]

Has anyone talked about Enemy Mind more than us?

[Ryan Stanger]

Dude, I. I got in trouble on a job in Enemy Mind. I never told you guys this, did I?

[Johnny G.]

No, you did. But I did.

[Ryan Stanger]

So, yeah, I can tell it now. Of. I. I was on a job. I won't name it, but the. But the showrunner was like, well, it's like an enemy mind situation. And he explained what, like, he thought. And I was like, well, that's actually not what the movie's about. He was like, what are you talking about? I was like, have you seen Enemy Mind? He's like, yeah, of course. I was like, well, that's not what the movie is about. And then the whole room went quiet and we had just covered enemy mind.

[Johnny G.]

And then talked about it for three hours after. Like, kind of gets in your memory a little more.

[Arthur Gabris]

That wouldn't have mattered, though.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yes. And this dude got. Got, like, weirdly embarrassed that, like. And I was like, so, like, what you're talking about is a different thing. And we could do that. But it's. I mean, an enemy. Like, you reference enemy mine a lot. You should know. He would bring up the movie constantly. And I was like, you should know. That is not what the movie. Like, you've created a different movie in your head and it's. And that's not the plot of the film.

[Arthur Gabris]

And if you're a normal person, you're just like, oh, what? You know, oh, cool. And then nobody would care and it would be totally fine line.

[Ryan Stanger]

I mean, I was saving him future embarrassment from someone else like me when.

[Johnny G.]

He finally met L. Jr. And blew it.

[Arthur Gabris]

That Wolfgang Peterson. I think it is.

[Ryan Stanger]

It is.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

We before or after or were before.

[Johnny G.]

I keep accidentally using the real tech in the movie and being like, well, we could. In my head, I keep going like, well, we don't have that kind of space travel yet.

[Ryan Stanger]

Well, obviously we've never met that alien. So we. He gotta be before, right?

[Johnny G.]

I would know. I think I would know if we met that alien. I think I would know if Bone Jackers existed. We are before.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are before. Late 21st century. That's all it gives us. But we're still early 21st century. Predator 2 from 1990. A movie whose director once told me I was bad.

[Arthur Gabris]

What's that story again?

[Ryan Stanger]

This director, probably the meanest feedback I've ever gotten for an audition for an under two like. Like two line scene. And he was like, just like wildly dismissive and insulting crazy that he was.

[Johnny G.]

Even in the room for those. Yes.

[Arthur Gabris]

Do you remember. Do you any. Or do you know any of the other movies he's done? I feel like we've talked about.

[Ryan Stanger]

He mostly has done tv. Tv and this was for a TV show that I was auditioning. But yeah, yeah, he was in there and he was like. He did not like me, but I like Predator 2.

[Johnny G.]

I think we're after Predator 2. They're kind of hitting right? It's kind of like, close.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah, it's so. So It's. Movie released 1990. 1997. Dana Glover is Mike Harrigan.

[Johnny G.]

They're leaning too hard on, like, the violence of LA to make it too far.

[Ryan Stanger]

Incredible cast.

[Arthur Gabris]

Cast is stunning.

[Johnny G.]

Hell, if you want. If you want a semen sample, I'll just give you a pair of my draws. You get all three. I can't remember that joke, but I. It's in my head.

[Ryan Stanger]

We brought up Escape from la. Escape From New York is set before it in the futuristic year of 1997.

[Johnny G.]

Jesus.

[Arthur Gabris]

Wow. So that was in the cinematic universe of Predator 2.

[Ryan Stanger]

Here's a tough one. Total Recall 1990. One of our favorites. Arnold Schwarzenegger is Douglas Quaid or Carl Hauser. Hauser is actually a friend of mine.

[Johnny G.]

I think we're before Total Recall.

[Ryan Stanger]

Gosh, it's Beads of Sweat. I didn't think you would be taking this. This seriously.

[Johnny G.]

I kind of could have guessed it.

[Arthur Gabris]

After the silent peace snap. Who. I feel like I've gotta seem smart again. Yeah, I gotta feel like I gotta seem smart again. Everybody thinks I'm smart. I don't want to lose that.

[Johnny G.]

Gotta keep this up.

[Arthur Gabris]

We are after Total.

[Ryan Stanger]

Oh, wow. Gabrius is right. We are before total recall. 2084.

[Arthur Gabris]

2084.

[Johnny G.]

We could be alive for Recall.

[Arthur Gabris]

Trying to keep it interesting.

[Johnny G.]

60 more years. That puts me at 100 and live.

[Ryan Stanger]

You're going to do 102 with this?

[Arthur Gabris]

Kind of the long.

[Ryan Stanger]

I got.

[Johnny G.]

Just get my Manjaro squared away, and I'll be. I'll live forever.

[Ryan Stanger]

Hey, what's up? You're listening to episode 600 of Being Fat. I'm with the. I'm with the Mike Mitchell. AI.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah, I'm with the Mitch. Head in a jar. Big jar.

[Ryan Stanger]

Wouldn't it be.

[Arthur Gabris]

Wouldn't it be so much better if these. Who's had the Johnny Cab tag? Hell of a day, isn't it?

[Ryan Stanger]

I would. I would. I wish they did.

[Arthur Gabris]

Why?

[Ryan Stanger]

Is it that hard to put a fake, like, robot driver in there?

[Johnny G.]

They have that beautiful sex doll with her tits out.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah, they could just use the same tech they did for an aerial animatronic at Disneyland.

[Johnny G.]

Like a pirate.

[Ryan Stanger]

Now, according to the Internet, Aliens, which we cover. Bird takes place in 2179. But I don't remember it being mentioned in the movie, so I'm not going to include it. I think that's kind of stuff that's done more recently.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah. Because especially with these Extended Universe movies and like that.

[Arthur Gabris]

Well, she's asleep for 60 years.

[Ryan Stanger]

Here's a tricky one.

[Johnny G.]

And her bush hair doesn't grow that much.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah. I mean, that's the only way you can date it is.

[Arthur Gabris]

I think you need to say hair bush.

[Ryan Stanger]

I think bush covers talking about the hair Manless drone.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

Like saying George W. Yes.

[Johnny G.]

I think you mean L.

[Ryan Stanger]

Demolition Man. This is a tricky one. Demolition man from 1993 with. With Sly as Spartan and Snipes as Phoenix. And then we got Sandra Bull. Like is Lenina Huxley?

[Johnny G.]

And then you. Wow, I didn't even put that together. The Huxley get there. And then you have Dennis Leary as Dennis Leary doing six minutes of. From his actual hour in the movie.

[Ryan Stanger]

Funniest Guy in San Angeles.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah.

[Johnny G.]

Now this movie takes place after the fast food wars, so yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

Taco Bell is the only restaurant. Rat burgers are delicious. What would rat boys think of how delicious the rat burgers are in San Angeles?

[Johnny G.]

The Hunka Chunka is still safe.

[Ryan Stanger]

I'm talking about bone in the horizontal mambo. Hunka Chunk. They of course do verse X instead of fluid exchange.

[Arthur Gabris]

Nobody gives a shit if you fucking.

[Ryan Stanger]

Show your Elon Musk is like, this is what the day is going to happen. We got to get Trump elected.

[Johnny G.]

Everyone has shit all over their ass crack and fucking in their drawers.

[Ryan Stanger]

Everybody's fucking sticking shells up their asshole.

[Johnny G.]

Thank God they got rid toilet paper. The worst invention of our.

[Arthur Gabris]

You got to go swear at the citation machine for swearing.

[Johnny G.]

We are before.

[Arthur Gabris]

We are just barely after.

[Ryan Stanger]

We are before. So Demolition man is. Well, it's a little bit of a trick question, I suppose. We're before and after. Oh, because Demolition man starts in the futuristic year of 1996, but then they're frozen in 90, so. So they jump to near future to have the freezing technology for when Spartan and Phoenix get put away. Then they thaw them out in 2032.

[Johnny G.]

Oh. Oh, wow. Soon. I just watched Austin the First. Austin Powers again for some reason with Tiff. And it is also freezing the bad guys. It's like same shit. We've been doing like so many movies.

[Arthur Gabris]

Hey, who's better being frozen, Austin or Spartan?

[Ryan Stanger]

People really thought we'd have cryogenics figured out. Like they thought right around the block.

[Johnny G.]

Now we're just using it to like Ted Williams. Yeah, we're just using it to like melt the fat off housewives guts or just using it to enrich in guys who own cryo.

[Ryan Stanger]

Here's one we might be revisiting in 2025 for the Action Boys podcast. One we've already covered on High and Mighty, the running man in 1987. Now it does give us some dates of when this movie takes place. Do you think it's before? This is with the famous trio of Weiss, Cunningham and Richard Richards. Ben Richards.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah. Is.

[Johnny G.]

I'm the Butcher of Bakersfield.

[Ryan Stanger]

The Butcher's of Butcher of Bakersfield. Supposedly.

[Arthur Gabris]

I'm going to say we are after. And I hope the price is right. I'm going to say no, I hope the Family Feud is right.

[Johnny G.]

Say before. Show me before.

[Ryan Stanger]

Survey says we are after.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, wow. Good show.

[Ryan Stanger]

Running Man 2017-2019. Of course, we're referring to Richard Dawson.

[Johnny G.]

As Killian and also the host of Family Feud. The lip kisser.

[Ryan Stanger]

Famous lip kisser. The. The first host of Family Feud. And. And you could say maybe the. The all time greatest. Nobody's been able to live up to it except maybe Harvey.

[Johnny G.]

I think Harvey's right. I think Ray Combs. Ray Combs stumbled a little and then Harvey brought it it back.

[Arthur Gabris]

Brought it back.

[Johnny G.]

I don't know why this details stuck in my head that Ray Combs tried to kill himself in a psych. Psych hospital by hitting himself in the head with a rock.

[Ryan Stanger]

Jesus.

[Johnny G.]

And I don't know if that's true. Like this is a crazy thing to maybe think is true.

[Arthur Gabris]

What. Why did they have a rock in there?

[Johnny G.]

It was a map.

[Ryan Stanger]

I came up with my name, brother.

[Arthur Gabris]

I'm out there chilling.

[Ryan Stanger]

Okay, so that's all I got for you guys. But I did make another list to end on that we could talk about of movies I was shocked. Aren't set in the future.

[Johnny G.]

Oh, that's. I like this category. Have you ever seen. It's like a. It's a meme that's gone around, but my friend Dan Meth made this poster.

[Ryan Stanger]

That is like where we're at in the future. Yeah, yeah.

[Johnny G.]

And it's like all. It's like the year that every sci fi movie takes place. And it's like you are here and then it's like 2000. Like, yeah, I do like.

[Ryan Stanger]

I do like seeing that come around. Beastmaster 2 through the portal in time. Not set in the future or the past. Of course. It's a different dimension. The title has nothing to do with it whatsoever.

[Arthur Gabris]

Beastmaster's plane at the theater where they are.

[Johnny G.]

That's such a crazy.

[Ryan Stanger]

Independence Day. Not set in the future.

[Arthur Gabris]

Wow.

[Ryan Stanger]

Face Off. Not set in the future. Now, it was written the screenplay, and these again, are all movies we've covered on the Action Boys podcast. The screenplay was written to be set in the near future, but they decided to say, like it. Let's just like, set it now.

[Johnny G.]

We got to have John Woo, Nick Cage and John Travolta having a little pow wow. And it's like, you know what? Let's just shoot this movie.

[Ryan Stanger]

Some of these. I could be wrong. I was shocked that the warriors wasn't set in the future. In my head, I always thought that was in a weird kind of like. Yeah, like near future.

[Johnny G.]

Oh. I always thought it was like, in this. In the contemporary to the time of the movie, like, set 70s, 80s. Because of the styling.

[Arthur Gabris]

I thought they jumped it forward a little bit to make sense of the Gangs Congo. Wow.

[Ryan Stanger]

Set in present day.

[Arthur Gabris]

That's unbelievable, Amy.

[Ryan Stanger]

And we are close to having this. It is weird that we've surpassed the robot voice right now. Just like, it's like, hey, it's me. You're glove.

[Johnny G.]

It's me. I'm not Elon Musk. Did you hear about this controversy that's going around? He. He's gotten hot water because was talking about the immigrant hiring the H1B visas or whatever. And he. Racists who support him are like, wow, what do you mean? You're bringing in Indian guys to take American jobs. So they got really mad at him. Someone made a Twitter spaces or whatever. Those, like, little rooms where you go. And a guy who came in there with a blue check named, like, Spencer something and clearly had a voice modulator thing on was like, it's fucking bullshit. But he has like a light South African accent. Everyone's like, this is Elon pretending to be someone else and create with like a bunch of followers, like a fake account and screaming about how like, MAGA needs to pay attention. Elon is right.

[Arthur Gabris]

I mean, fingers crossed for Joey Gorp to make a verbal appearance somewhere.

[Ryan Stanger]

This one will blow your socks off.

[Arthur Gabris]

Do we explain Joey Gorp?

[Johnny G.]

Joey Gorp.

[Ryan Stanger]

Sure. We've. I mean, if.

[Arthur Gabris]

I mean, I don't know.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah, yeah. Joey Gorp is John Krasinski's alt. That he uses to respond to people on him as Jack Ryan.

[Ryan Stanger]

People. I can't. Who found Joey Gore was. Did Clements find Joey Go?

[Johnny G.]

I don't know. I don't know. I thought it was Stanger because it wasn't me.

[Arthur Gabris]

No, I Heard about it from Ben.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah. We got so into it because he. People were anti Krasinski because they're like, doing a CIA show is also, like, propaganda, and you're not believable. And he's like, John Krasinski, 6 foot 3, 225 lean, knows martial arts. And it's like this guy Joey Gorp is defending everyone with, like, with his size and his stats and stuff.

[Arthur Gabris]

And his only posts were anybody that went after it was like, krasinski, the nerdy guy from the office's office is not believable. And like, his only posts were, like, responses to those people.

[Ryan Stanger]

I think. I think I got to give Clements credit for. For. For enlightening us about the. The mystery of Joey the Gor verse. I. I think about it all the time.

[Johnny G.]

Gorp, Gloves.

[Ryan Stanger]

Rotor.

[Arthur Gabris]

Wow.

[Ryan Stanger]

Not in the future. Yeah. Wow.

[Arthur Gabris]

That's.

[Ryan Stanger]

Road Tour, one of our favorites.

[Johnny G.]

God, I haven't thought of ROTOR in a really long time.

[Ryan Stanger]

Universal Soldier. Not in the future. I mean, that kind of makes sense once you start thinking about it, because.

[Johnny G.]

It'S like, it's got to be close to Vietnam or wherever you're supposed to be.

[Arthur Gabris]

It's got to be close to one of Roland Emmerich's pool parties for boys.

[Ryan Stanger]

Some of these movies are just set in, like, this stylistic world where you. You kind of like, in your head, think, maybe it's the future, but.

[Johnny G.]

But sometimes it's just like, set in a movie.

[Ryan Stanger]

You, Bonsai, for example. No date given. It's kind of supposed to be contemporary present day, but, like, maybe it's just its own kind of universe.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah. Beethoven. Beethoven. Second.

[Ryan Stanger]

It's like. It's like Shazam. Like those comic books. Like, Shazam. To me, never seemed like it was set in, like, our actual world.

[Johnny G.]

No, no, it was like Comic Book world. Yeah. Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

Love those movies.

[Ryan Stanger]

Hackers. Not set in the future. That was supposed to be the. The present.

[Johnny G.]

Acid rain.

[Ryan Stanger]

Here's what.

[Johnny G.]

Wait, what are. What are the names to Zero Cool? Zero Cool. Yes.

[Ryan Stanger]

That is Street Fighter. Set in present times.

[Arthur Gabris]

Wow. That boat is supposed to be from present times. Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

The un. The strength of the un.

[Johnny G.]

That's why I believe it.

[Ryan Stanger]

A true Tron set in the present.

[Arthur Gabris]

Oh, yeah, man. Present day. Man.

[Johnny G.]

I love your bridges. So many lazy and bad. You just do.

[Ryan Stanger]

Say, man.

[Johnny G.]

Hey, Tron man.

[Arthur Gabris]

Hey, man, we got to get in these bikes, man.

[Ryan Stanger]

Player one. You're a player. Deep Star six, a movie we covered. Oh, my God.

[Johnny G.]

Right? Famously. We watch. Watched separately. We watched a big chunk.

[Ryan Stanger]

We watched A big chunk of it.

[Johnny G.]

During the road tour when we're on the road for when we were in.

[Ryan Stanger]

Dallas and we threw it on and we like completely got absorbed. Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

And we're like, we have to ration this. We got to stop it now.

[Johnny G.]

We wanted to put on a movie that we could just chill and talk over.

[Ryan Stanger]

But we got so man, the costumes are really good. They were like. The effects are pretty good. And then we were just fully silent watching the whole Tell me about your life into the movie Stargate set in the present.

[Johnny G.]

Is that where Luke Perry is dealing with mummies?

[Arthur Gabris]

That could be.

[Johnny G.]

Cuz they have like the weird like before they go through the gate.

[Ryan Stanger]

There's like.

[Johnny G.]

There's like the regular world that they're in.

[Arthur Gabris]

And don't add us. We don't give a double team.

[Ryan Stanger]

A lot of Van Damme movies I've noticed, all kind of feel like they're maybe in the future with.

[Johnny G.]

They just don't have any like connection to reality. Yeah, right. I don't even remember anything from Double Team.

[Ryan Stanger]

Double Team.

[Johnny G.]

And I've seen that movie outside of the podcast.

[Ryan Stanger]

Dennis Rodman.

[Johnny G.]

I. I remember the basketball parachute.

[Arthur Gabris]

Well, Double Team is wild that it's not in the future because of that weird like pat like prisoner element that they have.

[Ryan Stanger]

And again, these could be wrong. These could all be wrong. Eve of Destruction. Do you guys remember covering that movie?

[Johnny G.]

No.

[Arthur Gabris]

No memory of it at all?

[Johnny G.]

No.

[Ryan Stanger]

Gregory how Hines, Eve 6 or whatever like the robot. The killer robot lady.

[Johnny G.]

I do not.

[Arthur Gabris]

That is incredible.

[Johnny G.]

This is where he like tap dances.

[Ryan Stanger]

Island of Dr. Moreau.

[Johnny G.]

Never forgot it.

[Ryan Stanger]

Set in the. In the present. Lawnmower Man. Set in the present. Here's a shocking one that maybe you guys can't even remember doing the movie. Megaforce. Not set in the future.

[Johnny G.]

I remember doing Megaforce.

[Arthur Gabris]

I remember Megaforce.

[Johnny G.]

We recently had to do like old man Find the word for it for that.

[Arthur Gabris]

Well, cuz I was thinking a.

[Johnny G.]

A laser movie was Megafor because Laser Mission and Megaforce. Honestly the names could be switched and you wouldn't like nothing would like Hal.

[Ryan Stanger]

Needham's huge flop legendary stunt.

[Johnny G.]

The weird B. Boswick suits that like they had those like kind of thin wet suits that showed too much in.

[Arthur Gabris]

Like a weird how need him showing up on set wearing jeans and like a denim watch doing Laser Mission. Hell, I got. I gotta say the mylar suits look like them in the future.

[Ryan Stanger]

So that brings us to about an hour worth of future movies. We did it. And it brings us back to the future. Of Action Boys, which will continue. Happy to be part of the high and mighty universe.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

What a ride.

[Johnny G.]

What. What a. This is like a case of, like, Family Matters and Perfect Strangers, where the spin off ends up being a stronger property than the original. Not a lot of people know this, but the mom from Family Matters is an elevator operator in Perfect Strangers, and that's how they used to launch TV series back in the day. They just covered her family and gave her a nerdy neighbor named Steve Urkel. And then that blew everything out of the world.

[Ryan Stanger]

It's probably more similar to the. The handicapped individual in St. Elsewhere, where, like, all those shows are in his head.

[Arthur Gabris]

Wow. Right?

[Ryan Stanger]

That's the show. Yeah, it's like the same Elsewhere universe.

[Johnny G.]

Right?

[Ryan Stanger]

It ends with a like, like NYPD Blues in it. Like. Like a thousand crossover.

[Johnny G.]

Ends up being too crazy. Like Homicide, Life on the Streets, and NYPD Blue. And. Because Belzer's the same guy. Yeah.

[Ryan Stanger]

It's because a bunch of friends ended up, like, crossing over here.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah.

[Johnny G.]

And he's like, munching, like, two series, so he's like the constant. He's.

[Arthur Gabris]

He's imagining Cousin Larry.

[Johnny G.]

Have you ever been to Mykonos? That's not where he's from. He's from a fake name place, right? Falki, it's not Mykonos. That's a real place.

[Arthur Gabris]

I don't.

[Johnny G.]

I can't.

[Arthur Gabris]

I can't remember.

[Johnny G.]

I can't remember.

[Arthur Gabris]

Expert on.

[Johnny G.]

I was raised by TV and I don't even.

[Ryan Stanger]

We better pause the episode.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yeah, let me get my laptops out. Bulky chargers. Lots of bulky chargers.

[Johnny G.]

We noticed that Stanger's laptops were mine and Rogers. Now we have to have a whole another combo.

[Arthur Gabris]

Turns out there is a P in Johnny.

[Johnny G.]

See, rudely.

[Ryan Stanger]

Like you wrote on Sharpie on my screen.

[Johnny G.]

Yeah.

[Arthur Gabris]

No.

[Johnny G.]

Prove it now. Action. High and Mighty has 500 episodes by the time. If you're listening to this in the year 2458, right before Water World starts.

[Ryan Stanger]

Yeah, whatever. AI is listening to this and stealing our personalities. Like, hopefully you were entertained, but we have.

[Arthur Gabris]

Mine's still on the table for some reason.

[Johnny G.]

There's three personalities here. Grab all of them if you want.

[Arthur Gabris]

It doubled, doubled, and tripled up on you guys, and mine's still there.

[Johnny G.]

You end up being like, the only way to stop AI. Send in Stanger Bot.

[Ryan Stanger]

Like the virus that. Michael, I'm not thinking correctly.

[Arthur Gabris]

In the end, a Stanger virus wiped them out.

[Johnny G.]

The project was called Project Algernon.

[Ryan Stanger]

Hey, Kit, why are you taking so Long with those directions, buddy.

[Johnny G.]

There is no tracking him, Michael. He's outside of the universe.

[Arthur Gabris]

So some. Some thoughts on the. The wind down of High and Mighty. We want a sclusie with us.

[Johnny G.]

High and Mighty has been a great experience for me. I met a lot of great people and. But mostly one of the highlights was UFO guy. The UFO guy who probably my most heavily redacted episode as I'm like, well, we're talking UFOs, but we'll leave out the Biden drinking baby blood part. Definitely check out that episode. Try to guess. Try to guess when you know how I am as a conversator. Try to guess why I'm not talking so much in that episode where I'm just looking at the clock going 48 minutes is long enough.

[Arthur Gabris]

Can we get back to the globe drones in fucking Jersey?

[Johnny G.]

Yeah, I'd rather talk about aliens with you, dude. I already. I know I fucking picked a weird fight there. But Action Boys is still going strong. We have several hundred episodes of of that standalone show at Action Boys Biz. It's a Patreon podcast. You can get $5 get you the normal episodes, but a $10 tier, the zombie squad get you all six or seven monthly episodes and a couple of other perks. So go over to Actionboys Biz if you're watching this or listening to this and are curious. We also have free episodes at Free ActionBoyz. B is where you don't even have to go behind the pay wall. You can stay in front of it like a sicko. Bye, shitheads.

[Arthur Gabris]

That was a headgum podcast.

[Ryan Stanger]

In a part of the world where there are no rules.

[Johnny G.]

Holy, holy. Guys, I'm so.

[Ryan Stanger]

I definitely have not watched this since I rented it on VHS in 92 strangers united by the threat of death. We got all the major players. Seagal. Vladimir Putin is a good man.

[Arthur Gabris]

Arnold, you're calm. Give it to me.

[Ryan Stanger]

I need you to cream pie me now, Stallone. It's got a lot of heart.

[Johnny G.]

Immensely irregular.

[Ryan Stanger]

Now, somewhere, somehow, someone going to pay.

[Arthur Gabris]

I would love for my wife to like see me rip a guy's throat out.

[Ryan Stanger]

But they didn't count on one thing. This movie's insane.

[Johnny G.]

It's how you know it's a good movie. You have to do almost all the work yourself to figure it out.

[Arthur Gabris]

Well, there's a fantasy component. There's some sword fighting.

[Johnny G.]

There's some lightning. There's a new game in town.

[Arthur Gabris]

You wake up after a few years and a new.

[Ryan Stanger]

You don't even know who you are anymore. We're gonna be making Terminators. We're gonna make a really great deal with the Xenomorphs. I don't hate him, but I pity the roommate.

[Arthur Gabris]

Yes, I understand.

[Johnny G.]

This is now the 20th ending of the movie.

[Ryan Stanger]

I am D. I'm your dad. Action Boys. Boys will be boys. Subscribe here for bonus content and more free stuff from behind the Pavement Wall. To get new episodes, become a patron at Action Boys biz. Do it.

[Johnny G.]

Do it. Come on, do it now.