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S4E5.5: Escape from L.A.

🕑 Added 2025-01-17 12:56:34 +0000 UTC

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Unionize_Your_Workplace

Jim Cameron is going to have y’all killed for The Terminator director mix-up 😝

Ronin Fredricson

It'd be a lot smarter to do something like a bomb collar on Snake or maybe like they injected a tiny future bomb microchip that would rupture his aorta or something if he doesn't complete the mission in time instead of something that makes him progressively weaker and less likely to succeed but like they said; it's the stupid that makes it good. If you were to write a version of this that made sense it wouldn't be good.

MeatPopsicle

Not Morgana calling me out about how I tried to pitch my voice at 14

Evie K

Okay, love escape from London but I want to add Devon to play snake's younger evil clone who's been sent to stop Abi.

Corporal Burpfart

They should get Kurt Russell and John Carpenter together again, yes, but instead of escape from Earth or London or the Moon or whatever, Bigger Trouble In Littler China

Jonathan Graham

Tony Hawk was a stunt double for the surfing scene!

Hadyn H. Gay Abbeysme

Spy Kids 2 has the exact same McGuffin !! In the hands of the president's daughter !! Aa

Peggy Blue

woke horse fantastic twitter bit

Ed Bevan

Ok a week on Im getting the haircut

-Kris-

"We've obtained a copy of the attacker's manifesto. It just reads: This one's for you, Dev."

Joysweeper

it would be great! kinda has some ludicrous darkness but that just makes it more fun to talk about.

Mads Mikkelsen Himself For Real

As a trans person I love Snake Plissken because his performance of masculinity feels artificial. Hans Gruber vibes. Kojima vibes, frankly

The Butterfly Composer

They've often discussed a bond film free from the british government and as politically neutral as possible...and yet when one came, it was ivory tower upper crust white gentlemen spies declaring themsevles the divine arbiter of right and wrong in the world, beholden to absolutely no one...it is very funny that the villains are every rich, famous and powerful person on the planet, except 500 of them who are utterly dismayed that their fellows are that ready to murder everyone else on the planet so they can keep partying. It thus is a very eat the rich movie whilst not really analysing how the 'good guys' are exactly the same as the bad guys, only determined to maintain the status quo rather than kill all the poor outright.

Beach Boy Sammy

I'm extremely fascinated to hear their takes on the ideology of those three movies, which seem to boil down to environmentalism = bad, drug legalization = bad, and Scottish Independence = somehow allying with communism *and* fascism at the same time

Wolfman Jack

I highly recommend "Cloak & Dagger" (1984) starring Henry Thomas. Yes, Elliot from "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". It's a damn fine film.

The Butterfly Composer

Im not done with all the episodes yet (just finished Spy who loved me) but could the hosts do Kingsmen 1? Because the ideology is EXTREMELY present, james bond on steroids, we want to be a moore era movie with modern twist.

Andrew Dunn

Yeah I thought damn I must be crazy and Cameron only directed the second one

Alice Somethingorother

OK, hear me out. I'm not ditching the 'A' forename either but I never did figure out if I wanted a middle name.

Skoloton

To answer the question to why trans people like snake, I think there's three main reasons 1. MGS is often called unsubtle but it's a series thats very sincere and it's trying to say something something real about or world, it's not werid pro military imperialism slop like a lot of other modern military media is. That kind of sincerity really resonates with people in a way that sticks. 2. Snakes personality is rather diffrent then most action protagonists. Hes not constantly trying to be macho or one up people, hes never cruel for the sake of a joke, even to his enemies. He actually shows the people he fights a lot of respect. He doesn't feel the need to show off or prove himself, he knows who he is. 3. The game is largely about people who live on the edges of normal society, and the narrative or snake is never mean to them about their identites or lives. Marginalized people probably really can identitify with that in a way most media won't let them. I could honestly say more about why MGS is so beloved compared to like, splinter cell or rainbow 6 but I would need to write a whole essay, might be a good topic for a video essay honestly

Peter Thurlow

I absolutely love that Devon gets dressed up to record audio content.

Mariana Trench

Extremely incorrect buzzer… Terminator 1 & 2 were James Cameron, not Carpenter

Ed Bevan

I watched this on my 14th Birthday at the cinema with my dad. Last year at 42 I got a fkn enormous snake tattooed on my belly, which was absolutely not fun, but can recommend for feeling more Pliskin in your day to day life.

Jeremy Olivier

ya'll have great timing lol

Ineloquent Reverie

Ngl comparing the combat basketball to birth of a nation is pretty offensive to the people victimized by birth of a nation. One’s a deliberately vile screed and the other is an edgy audacious joke in a movie that clearly thinks racism is at least mostly bad

Frejo

in the context of how much queer people love Snake Plissken, I do think its really something that the second metal gear solid is about a boy, who is canonically easily mistaken for a girl, trying really really hard to be just like snake.

Lizzie LaHaie

Transfemme moment, doing my E Shot while listening to this episode

Luna Nurse

*puts dog tag away* :(

Tanngnjost

Technically my name means Snake in english

Clair Baker

Thanks for the "Hnng Colonel, heat from fire fire from heat" as an incredibly specific soundboard clip

Hugh Crosthwait

The stadium is the LA memorial coliseum

Saengchaen

As a Thai person, I'm gonna start answering "Where is your family from?" with New Vegas, Thailand

Sean Buckley

'Helluva BOSS' *looks to camera*

Emmmaaa Gunmmyyy

took me this whole episode to realize that the antagonist from Wasteland 3 is a Pat Buchanan reference

James Rule

Honestly, the state of the world makes me want to buy some leather pauldrons and start wielding a buzz saw to a machete.

Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an

Also, it's exactly the Hideo Kojima meme of having a Trans woman character named Hard Mommy

Thomas Stanley

Now I don't want to defend this extremely offensive character, BUT Snake Plisken grabbing Hershe's thigh and running his hand up her leg is extremely "we have fucked crazy style" coded stuff. Too me.

Jason Young

Ok, so my post apocalypse gang would be the Lynch mob. We all look like David Lynch or people in his films, we smoke cigarettes and hang out at burger joints. Definitely accepting members, unless someone else has this idea better developed in which case may I join your gang already in progress?

Skate Bush

Abi is right about the trans women casting thing however how does chat feel about David Duchovny as Denise in Twin Peaks?

John Leavitt

Every-time Bruce Campbell re: Spider-Man comes up I feel compelled to mention that they where low-key planting the seeds for Mysterio as the 3rd movie baddie with Bruce Campbell in the first two having jobs an out of work actor would have

heffa

Yes! And once again Pam Grier serving cunt, and bossing around Jason Statham. And the world it's set in is socially and politically Matriarchal!

Stu Strange

Matt Gaetz post plastic surgery looks exactly Bruce Campbell in this.

Crispined Glover Potato Snacks

Funnily enough the actress playing Utopia is the former lady Courtenay, ex-wife of the Earl of Devon.

Lay-Tex-Lips

Next live show Devon just shows up dressed as Sol Badguy

Vivian

god, my father is a right wing politician and you absolutely hit the nail on the head about how they think about their children, especially the trans ones 🫠

Charles Comfort

Need a count of how many belts Devon was wearing for the episode.

Ben Schwabe

Best bar in Allston! Or at least it was a couple decades ago.

chloe

Ok ummm please have Morgana on again!! Lovely guest

saoirse fitzpatrick

I'm considering you guys saying freedom ever at all the point where I need to point at the screen because my name, Saoirse, is Irish for freedom

GG Allin Dulles

The sil mentioned

Javi

this is the KJB equivalent of when west end wicked performed the day the queen died

Doug King

I'm was brushing my teeth when Devon busted out "Curevo Jones and the Fine Colombians" there was almost toothpaste spit on my bathroom mirror. Thanks, Devon!

Evan Klemmt

I’ve wanted y’all to cover this for a good 2 years so hell yes and thank you

Noblesse Oblahaj

Oh, I know he didn't do it. They just mentioned it and I want them to watch and talk about it 😁

Liam McGlohon

t4t couple named utopia and dystopia

Doug King

Abi needs realize that Michelle Forbes has had more of career than Rho Laren. Check out her IMDB if you don't believe me

Lay-Tex-Lips

Devon saying “I’m more of a twink now” just reminded me of those memes of people referring to Guilty Gear characters as twinks

Jack Fennell

Okay, maybe that character isn't as bad as I remember (lots of things hit different when you're a kid, etc etc)

Noblesse Oblahaj

Snake Plisken is basically if Johnny Silverhands was cool and didn't pretend to understand politics

Gilded Dragon

Sidra Serpiente... wait no that one is actually good for a cider brand going all Mallus Mallus Prusopelinglicol Malsanilla Hidra-miel (a mead themed hydra? Blond snake lady?) Posh Spice (pox or posh is a Maya alcoholic beverage based off sugarcane)

Ben Schwabe

I first saw Escape From LA on the TV over the bar at The Silhouette in Allston, MA. The sound wasn't on and I was getting my drink on but I still enjoyed it.

Antho

What is going on with the misattributing Terminator movies to Carpenter? The guest on this ep mentions Carpenter is director of first Terminator, and now here claiming T2. Is it a bit? Both are work of James Cameron’s

FVRLO

So badly want an episode on Metal Gear now.

Noblesse Oblahaj

She flirts with Snake and he hits her with, "I ain't got time to breed"

Patrick Lopez

I saw this shit in the theater, I still regret it. AND YET. I've watched it once/year every year since. It's so bad and SO CHARMING.

BayneNothos

On the talk at the end. There's already a John Carpenter movie where you escape from Mars, It's called Ghosts of Mars. You get the lady from Species and Ice Cube!

GJH

Vaguely remembering that ghosts of Mars was supposed to be a Snake Plissken movie

Noblesse Oblahaj

John Carpenter rules, do The Thing. Terminator 2 is partially a heist movie so you can do that. Also, Boss is underated and her whole fit, attitude, voice acting, etc, ruled.

Andrew Dunn

I once made a banger meme about the awkwardness between "Norse pagan" antisemitic fascists vs Zionist, philosemitic Christian Nationalists. Because the movie got it right, the latter has all the institutional power and legitimacy and will turn on them. I am currently trying to grow a mullet before I go bald. I started getting a widow's peak a few years ago, and then I gave myself a buzz cut and noticed how thin the front of my hairline was as well. So I'm speedrunning a mullet until I go full kettlebell/snooker player skinhead / short buzz My wife once compared me to Bruce Campbell's character Ash because he's a working class retail warrior Please pretend that Big trouble in Little China is a heist movie so you can cover it this season. Get a Chinese-American guest. As for They Live, I think it's one of those movies like Pride (2014) that's just too rich to be covered.

Gilded Dragon

Utopia is an excellent transmasc name tho. Yoot or Tope for the bros.

Jack Fennell

Wincing at the half-memory of 'Her/She' before clicking play on this.

Dannysaysnoo

John Carpenter was informed by some copyright lawyer of some kind about Snake's visceral resemblance to Plissken. Apparently, they didn't do anything cause Carpenter really liked what Kojima was doing.