Dec 172008
Over the Top review (right click or Click)
Mostly it’s about handle bar moustaches and their sheer awesomeness. It’s also about The Machine.
email: Futilepodcast@gmail.com
musics:
Aphex Twin – Come to Daddy
Toto – Rosanna
runtime: 0:42:21:11 uncut but this version is 0:23:22:03 enjoy.
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[...] The Futile Podcast: “Truck drivin’ arm breakin’ and arm wrestlin’” Is there such a thing as an action-movie nerd? Maybe the right word is geek. Description of podcast: “Deconstructing 80’s & 90’s action movies. Relating them to comics, TV, and cartoons from then and now.” They get pretty quickly into the Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling movie “Over the Top” (1987). The two guys say it feels like a made-for-TV movie, with the lesson, you have to take what you want in life. High point of film comes with interviews of actual professional arm wrestlers. It’s an amusing enough discussion, but the main hosts seems to be eating and talking with his mouth full. “A really, really awful version of ‘The Color of Money.’ … We did the poker movie, and we did the pool movie, what about arm wrestling?” I might listen to this show again, depending on the movie under discussion. It looks like some of the earlier podcasts have more participants, mostly but not exclusively men. On the blog, there’s also this apology for excessive misogyny, a common feature of a lot of male-dominated podcasts, as I’ve mentioned before. On the plus side, it has some of the features of a good podcast: brevity with several engaging personalities talking with expertise about an obscure topic they love, in this case, bad action films. Length: 23:24 minutes. Released: Dec. 17. [...]
what the hell are you guys eating???
Doughnuts. We rarely eat while recording so naturally this would be the one that would get national attention.