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The ActionBoyz discuss The Lawnmower Man. 

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Boogie

You bastards finally did it. 4 hours. Well done.

Anonymous

One day, I will sit down and actually watch one of the movies, covered on this podcast...

Eugenio Triana

Well now you have to do a five hour ep

Sneakaboard

The calls were to a bar called The Eastside in Olympia, WA. My office is across the street from it.

Doug R

Lol. Shout out to Stanger’s imaginary friend.

Anonymous

So over the years I've been kind of fascinated by the Cusack/Savage Steve Holland situation. This will be long but back in 2004, Holland said this: "I had met John when he was 17. We went to Yamashura and had drinks, which was totally illegal, and he was just the coolest guy. He was just so much fun and so funny and I was like, 'You are my Lane.' He actually came to a lot of the editing. We were really good friends. We had a lot of fun. Then he went off to do some other movie, and when he came back he agreed to do One Crazy Summer. Which I had written a rough draft of, and he didn't think it was that funny. And I just said, "I'm just gonna let you guys do your thing, and make it funnier when we get there." And I guess they paid him a lot of money. So this is short of a shocker. But we all got up to Cape Cod, and the night before we started shooting One Crazy Summer, we screened Better Off Dead for everyone that was up there because it was mostly the same crew, and a lot of the same cast. So we're all watching the Better Off Dead screening that night, and John walked out of the movie. About 20 minutes into it, he walked out, and he never came back. The next morning, he basically walked up to me and was like, "You know, you tricked me. Better Off Dead was the worst thing I have ever seen. I will never trust you as a director ever again, so don't speak to me." He was just really upset. And I said, "What happened?! What's wrong?!" And he just said that I sucked, and it was the worst thing he had ever seen, and that I had used him, and made a fool out of him, and all this other stuff. And I was just stunned, because it was as funny as shit. And he was great in it. And he was helping me edit it throughout the summer." http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000134.php Then in 2015 Cusack addressed it in an interview and it sounds like maybe he thought it would be darker based on the script he read? He says: “It was one of those things where I made it, and I didn’t really have a feel for it. But it was fine. It was good. But what happens is that you have to go [to your press tour] and they’d want to talk to you about The Sure Thing or that movie instead of what you were there to talk about. So, it wasn’t that I hated the movie or hated anything. I just didn’t want to keep talking about it. “And I felt terrible about it,” he continued, “because if the actors or the director [thought that I hated it], that was on me. I never really thought about it. I was just on to the next thing. I was like 17 years old … I just felt bad. I had nothing [against the movie]. If people dig it, that’s great!” The script had a lot of black comedy elements and surrealism that hasn’t been done in the genre. But I was looking at ‘Oh, I didn’t like the score, or I thought the cinematography would be a little darker, but I was 17 years old, so, no. I don’t have anything against it...I feel bad that the director [thinks I have something against it].” https://www.pajiba.com/career_assessments/john-cusack-has-nothing-against-better-off-dead.php So I guess it just depends who you believe at this point. Obviously it was a lifetime ago.

Anonymous

my dumbass dad (who was a chemical engineer btw) had to go to the ER after sticking his hand under a running lawn mower

Anonymous

Rodgers really needs to rewatch Mad Men.

Anonymous

My neighbor growing up mowed his foot off and my parents didn’t care because they told me he was probably too old to mow anyway. My dad went after he died ( from cancer because he was 50 ish when this happened) and took all of his clothes and wore them for like 10 plus years. I was forced to mow the lady’s lawn till she died. All of her dead husbands clothes didn’t fit my dad but he wore them anyway. Polyester 79s outfits till my dad retired in 2004

David

Starting the movie 1 hr & 13 minutes in has to be the record

Anonymous

My coworker worked in a bar that Travis the chimp would come into. He sat on his lap, and would drink soda. The cops and people in the city were used to him!

Anonymous

One of the slickest side benefits of being nicknamed "Great American Scream Machine" is that you can sign emails as G.A.S.M.

Will See

Hell yeah

Anonymous

Just a heads up Job’s birth cry is coming today in 97 minutes

Anonymous

I thought to myself, "oh, they're still going on about Cusack after last week's episode." And then I realized that by coincidence, a few nights ago I had randomly picked the Con Air episode from 2018 to listen to while mopping floors and solving quadratic equations. Picking up right where you Boyz left off five years ago... Keep it up, studs.

Joe Lopes

This is just a long advertisement for teledildonics.

Anonymous

BEST EPISODE EVER!!

Anonymous

Did anyone listen to improv4humans? Rogers was cracking my shit up

Anonymous

Another great ep! I highly recommend everyone take this opportunity to revisit the Ray Parker Jr. sketch from Key and Peele (it’s relevant, I promise): https://youtu.be/GxjNOv5QPzM?si=nb6MPrtO0JEqgCWz

David

Gabrus’ “I had a lawnmower man itsa boy” line was amazing

Anonymous

Is this movie better or worse with Sly Stallone playing the lawnmower man?

Megan

I have now heard this episode refrenced on 3 other podcasts this week. Its the action boys (d)effect

Anonymous

Just watched the directors cut & Jesus, they really do say Cybo Man as many times as Gabrus said.

tmcms

LMAO

Anonymous

Texted my bf a screencap— “check the time” Feeling fucking BLESSED XD Loved every hour of it and obvs adding this to my watchlist for October

Anonymous

Re: bootleg Jerky Boys tapes, I feel like there was a lot of stuff in that era that was so much cooler to find like that. The first time I ever heard 2 Live Crew was in a friend’s basement listening to his older brother’s tape of songs he recorded straight off the speakers from another boom box, which was simply marked “RAP” in marker, when I was maybe 11. We had no idea what any of it was beyond the fact that it was more unspeakably filthy than anything we’d ever heard. It was like getting the world’s first case of Sudden Onset Puberty. Anyway this was a great ep. Sincerely, thanks for making it so long; Lawnmower Man is one of those spectacles that is so absurd that I never get tired of hearing people pick it apart (kind of like listening to Nick Wiger talk about Heathcliff), so this was an all-timer for me. (PS if you guys like prank calls you should check out Longmont Potion Castle if you haven’t, I was never really into the Jerky Boys but LPC’s calls are surreal and hilarious https://youtu.be/DyGhQSZyucc?si=2p27EDzHDagKTanb)

Anonymous

Holy shit, 4 hour episode. What’s the record?

Anonymous

I’m not sure if this has been posted, but please enjoy the atrocity that is the”Lawnmower Man” SNES video game (which I rented as a pre-adolescent) https://youtu.be/PKZxhsZjI20?si=wLqdhqU5e-w4e10t

PizzaCrustPunk

It's February 22, 2024 2:47pm and I am listing to The Lawnmower Man episode for the 6th time. Thank you ABZ for this wonderful gift. Tears in my eyes.